RE: what's the world coming to?

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> First Porsche, and now Volvo and Alfa are supposedly introducing
> trucks that will pretend to be cars.  What's the world coming to when
> two famous sports car manufacturers, and the company founded on
> motoring safety introduce examples of a vehicular genre that is the
> least sporting, and least safe out there?  BMW, M-B I can swallow,
> but Porsche, Alfa and Volvo?  As unsettling as it is, I'd rather be
> passed on the freeway by a soccer mom doin 90mph and talking on her
> cell phone in her Explorer than see any of those famous badges
> reduced to being stuck on a truck masquerading as a passenger car.

Alfa and Volvo have been selling trucks forever - what's the problem of
going upscale with SUV's?

Porsche has always been doing sports cars, and nothing else, so yes, SUV is
quite a departure for them.  However even Lamborghini sold an SUV (LM002).

bs

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