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To: TobagoJack who wrote (21889)	7/31/2002 12:38:46 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

>>18-24 months ... “GM Shuts SUV Lines”<< My bet is no. SUVs are just too popular among suburbanites with families. It's all due to CAFE, which requires manufacturers to produce fleets of automobiles with low average fuel consumption, but doesn't apply to trucks. SUVs are trucks. So automobile manufacturers don't manufacture large automobiles and station wagons anymore, and suburbanites with families drive SUVs, while urbanites without families drive tiny little cars that get great fuel milage, and people in the middle drive mid-sized cars. Or, if they have money, they drive imported cars because US mid-sized cars suck (but not as bad as US tiny little cars). Heck, I've been seeing SUVs made by Cadillac, Honda, Toyota, Mercedes -- these things are here to stay.