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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (13510)	6/9/2007 5:15:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

Honda CR-V isn't a bad choice, and certainly all the Subarus are good cars. Subarus are a little tight, if they put in a decent seat I'd be driving one. The CR-V shares some of its basic engineering with the Honda Civic. That car was dropped from the Insurance Institute's Top Picks list, however, because of a new requirement that all vehicles on the list must offer electronic stability control. This is a little strange--by requiring electronic stability control to make the list, that automatically favors tall wagons that offer it versus sedans that don't need it. I see two Audis sedans there, pricey. I am surprised to see the Pilot there--I suppose I should have guessed it has electronic stability control. I drove the MDX, the Explorer and the Pilot and although the Ford engine isn't half as refined as the Honda engine, the used fleet vehicle that I bought was half what I'd have had to pay for the MDX or Pilot. But the extra smooth engine and new car smell wasn't worth the extra $17k to me. Anwyay, Ford will add ESC standard by the end of 2009.