Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers

Approximately 10/18/03 12:19, Dave C. uttered for posterity:

Don't drive much these days or pay attention to road tests, huh Davie?

Approximately 10/18/03 13:12, Dave Milne uttered for posterity:

Make the highways safe to drive again, run over a shitbox today.

What are you talking about? I've driven several SUVs (not by choice). My current daily driver is a Ford 4X4 pickup. It handles like crap, and it's not nearly as top-heavy as the SUVs that are based on it are. -Dave

Approximately 10/18/03 15:56, Dave C. uttered for posterity:

Go drive a *modern* SUV, say the new VW or Porsche one. Then try to keep up with a Turbo Cayenne with a typical sport sedan.

Yes, he should have bought the Hummer with armoured glass. I agree.

Tell me Dave, out of those several (3?), which two rolled over and what one crashed head on into another SUV? Oh and how did you survive such a horrendous experience against all odds?

Your ignorance is what will kill you one of these days. Rainy on a curve with you driving? What is the current record for a small car rolling over in a ditch? 15 times I think? Let me know if you break it.

Hey, Lisa's a Horton. Don't you guys be picking on my cousin!

(Howdy cousin.)

Earle

What percentage of SUV drivers choose the new VW or Porsche? Heck, in ten years, what percentage of SUVs on the road in the U.S. will be the new VW or Porsche or similar? No, most SUVs will still be the 30-year-old truck technology shitboxes designed and manufactured on this continent, unfortunately. Not if *I* was buying one, and not if most readers of this ng were buying one, either. But that's another story. -Dave

Most SUVs are and will be car based in design. Virtually every manufacturer now has at least two car or mini van based SUVs and the trend will unfortunately continue until we are forced into calling a unibody soda can with a sewing machine engine in it a "truck".

Well I'm not the average driver, so I was able to keep the SUVs on the road and (amazingly) upright. Go figure. :) -Dave

Whenever I look at theses two "SUVs" I keep thinking the AMC Eagle was ahead of its time.

Don't you be picking her either, that's not nice :-)

Dave Milne, Scotland '99 TJ 4.0 Sahara

: > > Its funny Bill, how everyone who drives a small car seems to think their : a : > > f*king racing driver.. : > >

: > Make the highways safe to drive again, run over a shitbox today. : >

: > -- : > My governor can kick your governor's ass : >

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of course you aren't the average driver - you are above average .... just like everybody else.