At 5:03 AM -0000 7/16/98, Mark Stahlke wrote:
> As the driver of both a SUV (one of the rare ones that actually gets off
>the paved roads)
Mark: Yo've nailed right on the head! 99% of these things are used as
status symbols!I not directing this at you personally but my general
obsevations about SUV's are:
1.) There bought by people who need a station wagon/ minivan, but think
their to cool to be seen dead in one.
2.) The "I can get through the snow" argument. Yeah ,right! I drove from
Warwick, RI to Stoughton MA, everyday for 3 1/2 years. The only thing I saw
that SUV's did better than my beater '84 GTI was to flip over and crash!
These things inspire a false security in their owners. Sure, you can go
better in the snow, but nothing stops from 70 mph on a 1/2" of packed snow
and ice!
3) And the ultimate in posers- Range Rovers! Jeez, these LL Bean shod
drivers of Range rovers! They've got them rigged to the nines with the
brush guards and skid plates, but the only off road duty they see is
pulling into the mall paking lot. This mystifies as much as the rich white
suburban kids adapting the urban lowrider look to their Escorts! I just
don't get it.
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