For the most part SUVs which are for the most part based on truck frames were somewhat created by US automakers in order to sell high profit vehicles. Most people don't like to drive in a tin can and I'm pretty sure they don't want to fight a big rig while squeezed in a tin can as you might get squished out. If you want to put a tax on these vehicles go ahead, it'll kill of US automakers fast. Oh wait, we saw that this past summer when gas hit $4/gal. and GM dicided to shut down a large truck plant. Last one out of Flint, MI turn off the last light. Why do you think that you get a 10K discount on these things right now.
I have a Nissan Frontier and I use the bed on a fairly regular basis and I don't mind the gas price as we will pay it no matter what. My much better half drives a Nissan XTerra and loves it.
Now as far as the GF goes, she drives with a vengence and I really should get a brush guard on the nose of the XTerra. However she doesn't text, doesn't read Liberal rags, won't apply makeup, no window shopping and uses a handsfree headset while driving. Knock on wood she hasn't had an accident charged to her since a minor parking lot boo boo in 1992. Then again she has witnessed several excursions of stupidity by others that she had witnessed doing something stupid just before the accident.
My favorite was when a woman driving an SUV was talking on the phone and eating a muffin while driving down the road as about 40 mph. The woman ran a red light but shortly after my gf got the green she came upon the wreck of the woman with the phone and muffin. Being the good citizen she is my gf stopped and informed the police officer of what she had witnessed. The cop then had a field day of fun writing several more tickets.
Yeah, I'm afraid of most anybody in a SUV unless that person looks like they us it for WORK. Don't wreck the money maker.
Oh gawd. Don't get me started on the topic of female drivers, talking on cell phones, and even behind the wheel of vehicles much larger than what they can handle.
And insurance rates for females are much lower for them compared to us males. Holy shit. How did that one happen?
All I have to say is that we should be thankful of all the dotted lines and solid lines on the roads today.
radiowaves88 15 years ago
Absolutely! I had a chick on a cell phone run a stop sign in a Ford Excursion and missed the front tire of my motorcycle by about two feet.