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

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (18)	8/13/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48

Honestly I see as many cell phones in Hondas as in Yukons. Most folk here in the Bay Area drive them okay. It's the vision thing though. And the gas mileage suuuucks. Folks we know have a 'Burban - eleven mpg. A new Trooper - sixteen in a lotsa-hiway cycle. A Grand Caravan- eighteen. There was talk of a passenger car using hybrid (gas/electric) technology to get 80mpg. I'd like to see the same technology applied to a 30mpg 'Burban or a 40mpg Grand caravan. Now that's technology we can USE.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (18)	8/13/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48

<<I concur...one cannot see through them, around them, or above or below them...the experience is like driving with a permanent wall at your front, with a driver chattering away on a cell phone, adjusting their large wedding ring and sipping their Starbucks...on the way to Nordstroms. [The engine has more processing power than the driver]>> stereotypes anyone? Perhaps if you ever left the big city you could find other type people driving them. No, don't even own a cell phone. Nordstroms, neither wife nor I have ever been in one. Starbucks, thank-you no, I'd rather get a good cup of coffee - cheap. Were these biases based on anything else, you'd be a bigot, as there are now, you must be simply ill-informed.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (18)	8/13/1999 9:38:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48

to: len grasso from: truedog Len, are you saying you have never been behind a semi,moving van, or delivery truck on your freeways? One problem with them is that you can't see what the driver is doing while driving down the highway at great speeds pushing one heck of a lot more weight than an SUV. You appear to be a little selective in your criticism in this case. Really, SUVs don't cost that much more than a conventional car and less than many, so, you really could afford one. They even have used ones on sale, but not many. They don't break or wear out fast...TD