Talkback : suv rage

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From:	Shelby Sherman	2003-11-27 11:08:22
Subject:	road hawgs
Comment:	I too am becoming annoyed with the trend of vechicles becoming as cumbersome as an overweight Argentinasaurus. America has always had a love affair with the automobile....and debt. Falling interest rates with cheap mortgages and home equity DEBT have just exacerbated the problem and enables already strapped households to purchase these behemoths. I could walk into any dealership and pay cash for almost any vehicle, [including a Hummer which is merely a jazzed up Chevrolet Yukon], but I won't. I drive a 7 year old Toyota Camry and will probably drive it another 7 years. Herein lies the paradox, I could buy one of these lummoxes on wheels, but I don't. The reason I can afford it is that I haven't indulged myself in such unnecessary and depreciating assets in the past. This is why I was debt free and could retire at 50, invoking the very satisfying 'kiss ass mode' to Corporate America. This rings up another irony in that when I was 17 I probably would have given a nut [and a kidney] for a Corvette and now that I could afford to buy one....I couldn't care less about it. BOTTOM LINE for me, at least is that an automobile is just an object to get from point A to point B, nothing more. [End of self-aggrandizing rant]
From:	christie	2004-04-27 01:13:22
Subject:	yay!
Comment:	you rock! here i was, searching for information on MSG (which i also found here, a double bonus) for my chem paper, and i come across this beautiful article of your's about SUV's. beautiful beautiful. i love it.
From:	Paddy O'Dwyer	2004-08-24 23:47:24
Subject:	SUV's
Comment:	Sad experience with an SUV yesterday. Lady in SUV pulls out 4 ft. beyond 'stop' line on side street and frightens the bejasus out of a child in the back of the Micra in front of me. Imagine - a screech of brakes and suddenly a great big bullbar appears about a foot away from you and you strapped into the back of Mum's nice safe car. Mum takes the chat and gives the SUVee a proper old earfull. Only reason given for aggresive driving was ' Didn't mean to do so'. Micra Mum moves on and the the SUVee proceeds to exit the side-street nearly taking the front off my humble Fabia. Will those drivers of the Symbol of Ultimate Vulgarity ever learn?
From:	Phil Ruston	2004-12-14 21:47:32
Subject:	SUV's
Comment:	What a load of Nonsense based not on fact but prejudice and bigotry
From:	John	2004-12-31 23:52:20
Subject:	SUVs
Comment:	Have you ever been stuck in front of on of these bastards at night? Their headlights are pointing directly into your eyes through your mirrors at all times. And sooner that you let the bastard go by so you can blind him/her with your high beams, another one pulls up behind you! The greatest revenge: Seeing them flipped over by the roadside at alarming frequency! Hey idiots: Four wheel drive does nothing for your incompetent driving or ice on the pavement!
From:	ross	2005-12-20 11:21:17
Subject:	SUV's
Comment:	a review: good review but is are they the really the worst things on the road or are we just seeing a bandwagon affect (sorry, bad pun) where peoples attention is focused and ill formed perceptions built upon. i agree with the dimension based annoyances such as blinding headlights, dodgy passings on tighter roads, little kids being scared by bullbars...but are these annoyances the sole domain of suv's? what of mpv's, trucks, buses. as to the points on fuel consumption. these are thoroughly flawed. hybrid electrics and new technology diesels make recent suv's actually more efficient than most other vehicles on the road. so someone wants to sit up on some high chair....i just get the feelign this a mountain and molehill situation.
From:	Roger	2006-03-16 22:33:55
Subject:	SUV's
Comment:	This was the most the ridiculous article I've ever read. Anyone who believes this must be retarded. It's all hippy propaganda with virtually no factual basis, and just the latest anti-establishment trend. Instead of neglecting your hygiene until you can have a head full of beautiful (read: stinky) dreadlocks, why don't you all go get real jobs and quit polluting an otherwise productive society with your leftist, scare-tactic, nonesense. You tree kissing moon-maidens are what's REALLY polluting the world. I hope your Greenpeace boat sinks.
From:	Steve	2006-08-01 07:28:11
Subject:	SUVs
Comment:	Great article! As a commuting cyclist, and non-SUV owner (our one car is a diesel) I heartily agree. These things have no place being on our roads. They are unsafe, both for their passengers, but especially for occupants of other vehicles in the event of an accident. They are also involved in a disproportionally large number of accidents due to their poor driving dynamics and an alarming tendancy to rollover. They consume rediculous volumes of fuel, at a time when we can not afford to waste this precious resource. And as you point out, try parking next to one at the mall! They take up their parking space and half of yours too.
From:	Peter Tickle	2007-11-10 11:41:40
Subject:	Additional thoughts on SUVs
Comment:	I, and many I know would thoroughly concur with the comments already expressed with regard to these 'Leviathons of the Road'. Another considerable detriment of these mechanical monsters is the problems they cause for the parking motorist in locations such as shops, retail parks and malls, where stops are inclined to be transient. How often have you carefully selected an isolated space for your pride and joy only to return to find an SUV adjacent, and a scuff or scrape up the side that is not protected by the normal door opening protector strip? Or returned just to find the damage that is so obviously due to one of these vehicles, by virtue of the general height of the damage, despite the current absence of such a vehicle! I rather liken the owners of such vehicles to the owner of the huge motorbike or huge ferocious dog - it's compensation for a certain inadequacy in the case of the male of the species: namely 'Penis Envy'. As a world so desperately in need of greater awareness of dwindling resources and global pollution, these drivers personify or are at the vanguard of irresponsibility for our planet!