Well, we have one because we occasionally drive it places where nothing else
will go, such as 4WD roads in Utah and Colorado.
I'm very opinionated about it, and my opinion is that if you need a pickup
you buy a pickup, if you need a tow vehicle that will carry more people then
you buy an SUV, if you need to go places where nothing else will go you buy
an SUV, if you need a vehicle to carry a lot of stuff then you buy a minivan
or maybe a station wagon, otherwise you buy a car.
Of course this is America so people argue that you can buy and drive
whatever you want to buy and drive. Well if I want a Camaro with an L88 in
it, which is certainly no more damaging to society than most SUV's, then
everybody is going to tell me I don't need it and I shouldn't drive it.
Hence my opinions above.
In the past when I needed a pickup I owned one. Now that I don't need one I
don't have one but instead I drive a 4-door sedan. Of course it does have a
32-valve V8 but I've got to have some little tidbit of interest.
> I've been meaning to ask, is there ever any justification for owning
> an SUV, if you dont' tow anything more than personal watercraft?
> I am finally getting my first one today, an '05 Nissan Pathfinder. It
> has high miles, but the price is so right, I couldn't pass it up.
> Hell, if I don't like it, I could sell it and make money on it.
> Or are they just an outright abomination unto the Lord Lucas? Except
> of course, for WST, who pulls his toys around in his.
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