Re: TOY: Car and Driver: Ford Explorers

[Thom Singer <ntsqd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I think they should all be forced into buying one of these: http://poseur.4x4.org/futuresuv.html  :)
I am saddened that the recent increase in fuel pricing didn't confine more of those fuel black holes to the driveway. I guess it didn't last long enough.

Robert Canon wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 
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TS
Chico, CA

I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death.