I’ve stopped giving out car advice except to those who are seriously interested in following it! It often turned out in the past that the person disregarded my advice, bought the wrong model of that car and then blamed his/her dissatisfaction on me. Remember the “Yaris Girl”?
A few years back I gave advice to a rather stubborn gentleman from Europe who wanted to buy a full-size Pontiac. He worked as a construction superintendent, but also had to drive a long highway distance twice a year. I recommended he custom order or look for a 4 door sedan with heavy duty suspension (quite common here), since the standard was too soft and would wreck his undercarriage at the construction sites.
The 4 door recommendation was because both he and his wife were overweight as were all his friends and the car would be used often to take client personnel to lunch. I could not visualize anyone like that crawling into the backseat of a two door.
As you might expect, on one of his trips home he bought a Pontiac 2 door hardtop with the standard marshmellow suspension. Then he whined to me about scraping the undercarriage and that the backseat was hard to get into.
Today I would have recommended a comfortable SUV of course. But then he might whine about instability in crosswinds. Tom & Ray have fielded numerous questions on how to get “good gas mileage” out of a heavy duty 4x4 truck bought to bring home 4 bags of peat moss every year. Their standard answer is often, sell the truck, and, yes, garden centers and lumber yards DELIVER things you might want to buy there. Costco is the only retailer who does not deliver from its stores.
P.S. I have had relatives even buy the exact car I had warned them NOT to buy!