On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and have purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we're giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.
Heading to the water with a canoe or dragging home improvement supplies for an ill-considered home reno can be a pain in the neck - especially if a sedan is the type of car which sits in yer driveway. Heck, even crossovers can pose a problem for these tasks. That's when a roof rack can come in handy.
Really, any vehicle can struggle to safely transport items longer than a car's cabin dimensions. Roof racks have been around for ages to help solve this puzzle, though it must be said their sturdiness and overall build quality have increased by leaps and bounds in the past few decades. Back in the 1980s, the parental units of this writer bought a roof rack constructed completely from brittle plastic. As you might expect, the whole works released itself from the surly bonds of our Renault Encore, burying itself at highway speed underneath a hapless Dodge. Fun times.