Car shopping soon...advice?

[Mr. Bloom]

I should clarify - the Honda dealer told us that we were seriously exceeding the useful capacity with 2 kayaks on the roof, 2 bikes on the back, and 2 people and a dog. We verified that the carrying capacity in fact was low enough that we were pushing it. It just couldn't handle what we needed it to (and it wasn't worth that much of a mileage hit for it not to do what we needed it to....). I did love it for a while

So, was the dealer suggesting you should leave one of the humans or the dog?