Re: CLOSET SUV Owners

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

I've got to admit that I don't 'get' SUVs. Aside from people who 
honestly have a reason (or just enjoy) going off-road, or need to tow a 
boat or a car trailer - a lot, I cannot see for the life of me why 
anyone would want one. Offhand, I'd say less than 1 out of 100 are ever 
used for either purpose. The consensus at the NHSA is that SUVs are the 
most unsafe vehicles on the road today (they kill 7-10,000 American 
motorists a year). They handle poorly, they will turn over if you look 
at them wrong and when they do, the tops crush all the way down to seat 
level. They get lousy gas milage, and to top it all off, they have far 
less useful space in them than, say,  a Volvo station wagon. If you ask 
people why they like them, you mostly get answers like "They're nice" 
and "Everybody's got one." ?????!!!!!

George Graves

On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 12:55 PM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:13:41 -0700
> From: "Ev-Arch1" <mdg36@domain.elided>
> Subject: CLOSET SUV Owners
>
> Isn't it interesting that all these closet SUV owners are crawling out 
> of
> their holes? Has something happened that I missed to legitimize the
> ownership of these Battlestar Galacticas? Maybe, when everyone was 
> getting
> there Alfa ownership reports analyzed a while back, the results would 
> have
> been different had they admitted having a family truckster.
> Poor little Alfa trailing behind one of these things belching out 
> trunk like
> quantities of half burned fumes--it's a wonder we can get them to run 
> at
> all....
>
> ev in sun addled az with no suv
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