Re: TOY: Car and Driver: Ford Explorers

[Robert Canon <rcanon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last year I was following an Exploder in rush hour traffic and the driver 
made an evasive lane change that wasn't all that abrupt and ended up 
sliding down the shoulder on it's top.

To let everyone know how unbiased I am:  I -HATE- SUVs!  There is nothing 
dumber than buying some monster faux wheeler for grocery getter/kid hauler!

The way morons say "but they are so much safer for my family!"  Maybe if 
sheer mass is the only consideration...  I imagine that moron sliding his 
Exploder down the shoulder on it's top would have, given the choice at that 
moment, given more consideration to, say, a Volvo wagon or the Audi Quattro 
wagon, both of which will go far more places than the typical SUV owner 
will -ever- go in their luxo-barge faux wheeler.  Well, maybe they 
-wouldn't- reconsider a Euro sport wagon given the chance...  Capable Euro 
Sport wagons don't have that marketing-driven active-life-style image the 
lemmings are slopping up like lemming chow with MSG these days!

Don't -even- get me started on how faux wheelers and the morons that buy 
them are destroying the genuine off-road 4wd gene pool...