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

To: Kelton who wrote (37)	8/17/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48

My take on it is this. The car companies have taken it on them selves to make all cars look the same whether it is a 20000 chevy or a 60000 Lexus. And they are all too small IMO. SO in the South at least, a lot of people started driving Suburbans, then mini vans for all the soccer moms, and the SUV craze was born out of that. At least most of the small SUVs get better milage than a 'burban. There is one other factor also. About 6 years ago my better half was hit in the side right in the rear wheel driving our Suburban. It did about 1300.00 damage to the suburban(including a new axle), and did over 8000 damage to a Toyota......and hurt the drivers neck and back. We knew the person that hit her, and noticed not long afterward SHE was driving a Suburban also. dan

To: Kelton who wrote (37)	9/2/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 48

Go with a gasser is my advice. Current electric technology has a dark underside. The ecoload of a battery-driven vehicle (counting manufacture and ultimate proper disposal of all the heavy metal - lead, nickel, cadmium, whatever) in the batt-pack is HIGHER than that of a four-cylinder gasser. And this is NOT counting ozone from the brushes ... anybody bring that up? The basic Honda Civic hatchback is perhaps the least expensive car to maintain. MUCH cheaper than an electric or an electric hybrid. (It astounds me that electrics have been marketed so successfully as ecologically superior. It's a damn lie, and I don't know why folks are buying it.) And counting manufacture, its resource footprint is the smallest. But if you have kids in baby seats, it's a heck of a compromise. :-)