Brad,
As I said earlier, women seem to like SUV's because they feel safer in them, something born out by the statistics.
It seems to me that most cars now are advertised as reaching 60 in 3 seconds, or something, and screaming around corners on mountain courses inches away from a precipitous drop.
Well... we know S.U.V.'s are not good at taking corners fast.
Consumers Union has documented this point pretty thoroughly, I think.
** There is one SUV model that's special: I forget the b-tch's name -- can someone refresh my memory? (it's not Tizzie Lizzie or Lizzie Borden, but maybe it's something like that -> Ah! Lizzie Grubman, I think???...) -- but she is some rich NY real estate magnate's daughter, and i think she has her own PR agency, and, one night, the doorman at a night club somewhere out on the rich part of Long Island -- Southampton??? -- ca. 1 AM -- told her she had to move her vehicle from the no parking zone, so she put it in reverse and slammed into a bunch of people (and later blamed it on the car!). I saw another of those black Mercedes SUVs today, going West near Exit 6 on I-287 in White Plains -- and the [...] driving it was living up to her role model's standards. There's something about a black Mercedex-Benz SUV that brings out the self-assertiveness in some people.
As they said in the 1930s:
The solution to pollution is dilution.
\brad mccormick
That advertising is for the testerone types (who may never actually drive very fast through city traffic).
Harry ----------------------------------------
Brad wrote:
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Males without power tend to prefer SUVs, The bigger the better.
Maybe you "nave the numbers"?
But I would have *thought* that males without power would prefer:
(1) Pickup trucks, and/or
(2) Sports cars (incl. American "muscle cars", "hot rods", etc.).
"Little GTO, you're really doing fine -- 3 deuces and 4 four speed, and a 389...." (ref. lost)
America has taken the automobile into its heart, and the automibile has taken over America. (--Eric Severeid)
\brad mccormick
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Instead of S.U.V.s, people should buy "cabs" for "semis" -- you know, the big trucks that do long distance freight hauling. Most of them have a sleeping compartment behind the driver's seat, many hae television
Almost there! http://poseur.4x4.org/futuresuv.html ;-) Chris
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