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Pastimes : Anti- Sports- Utility- Vehicle (SUV) board. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kelton who wrote (6)	7/16/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48

to: Kelton from: truedog Perhaps you have hit on the real problem.It is the drivers, stupid.<VBG> If a person does not know the idiosycrancies of driving an SUV, they should either take some sort of class from those experienced in their characteristics or not buy one at all. I admit that some of the SUVs are getting too large. A Chevy Suburban should require a commercial license to drive it. Ford almost came out with the Excursion which was to be over a foot longer than the suburban. I think the ridicule they received made them rethink the project. It has been my experience that the most dangerous thing on America's highways is a 25 to 35 year old female in a Japanese car. They make kamikaze pilots pale in comparison. TD

To: Kelton who wrote (6)	8/13/1999 8:16:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48

So, Kelton, Just what kind of vehicle do you drive? What kind of gas mileage does it get? You claim, "growing trend among consumers is to buy an SUV only for simple commuting". What do you dare call a "simple commute"? Would you expect everyone to buy another vehicle for that "simple commuting" and own a SUV for the "complex commuting"? Maybe I don't like mini vans, I am smart enough to know the fill a need, and say nothing against the vehicles or those that choose to drive them. Where do you live, what do you do for a living, what hours do you work, and can you afford three different vehicles for every driver in the family? You dare talk about something being "impractical", when you do not have any idea what else people do with that vehicle? Is it "practical" to own several vehicles for each person? Maybe it's not "practical" for me to use that truck of mine for that "simple commute", but would it be any more "practical" for me to give up that part time job - that pays the medical insurance, or to first drive 15 miles home to change cars to suit you? Try lining where I live. Try living how I live. try doing it with less, or smaller. Yes, there was one like you who said something to my wife at the place of business about her lack of need for an SUV. The same person then bought & enjoyed the product she had brought to work in that SUV in the dark hours of the snowy morning, hours before that unknowing do-gooder even woke up. There is an old saying about first walking a mile in the other person's shoes. You might want to try it.