Re: TOY: Car and Driver: Ford Explorers

["Lance Morin" <lance.morin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What if the big SUV is a 2WD and therefore not the "Faux Wheeler" you
mentioned below? Wht if that SUV is also the tow vehicle which hauls the
real wheeler to the trails? And what if the consumer just decides they like
and want that "faux wheeler" because this is the United States of America
and they have that choice?

I would venture from your post, Mr. Robert "Franken Taco" Cannon, that you
are biased indeed. Perhaps your bias is not directed as Ford Explorers or
Fords in general, but rather as SUVs as a whole.

I too am biased, I'm biased in that I don't see why anybody would take a
brand new Tacoma, cut off the suspension, install a Dana 44, the roll it,
fabricated a custom flat bed, and then pester Clune enough so that they use
your Tacoma for a new gear reduction system. No, maybe, I'm not biased, just
jealous...

Hey Robert, I'm thinking of heading up to Clayton for a few days the week
between Christmas and New Years. Perhaps you and Jon would like to come up
for some fun in the snow covered Kiamichi Mountains? I'm hoping it'll be
snow covered.

Lance Morin
www.fwd-fwd.org/lance


----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Canon <rcanon@mail.utexas.edu>
To: <toyota@4x4wire.com>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: TOY: Car and Driver: Ford Explorers


> 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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