Here Paul....
I agree with all your points, especially up here in the rockies SUV's abound,
when it snows the yuppie types hide them in the garage till spring... but be
kind to mini van owner's, I have a mini van... Just can't get the kids to stay
on the luggage rack of my spit for more than a mile......
Paul Burr wrote:
> 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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