Your suggestoin for a SUV

Why would you assume that? I don't drive an SUV or a Pickup.

 

A Honda Accord has more leg room than a GMC Yukon but the Yukon has more
head room and hip room. So if you have long legs get an Accord but if you
have a big head or fat ass get a Yukon.

 

Assumptions are the lifeblood of newsgroups and prejudice...


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I think you've just described the OPRAH crowd.


It's just a shame that the OPRAH crowd & the View crowd are the one's
making new laws in the States.

 

I'm not sure if I should be flattered that you still think of the size
of my phallus or hurt that you can't remember how big it is.

<grin>

 

If you're really going to go off road, then it is worth considering. They
also have size and cargo advantages.

I haven't looked at the latest ones out there. The last time I looked was
in 1998. I checked out a variety of them, ranging from a Durango to a
Lincoln Navigator, which was new at the time. I don't think there were many
upscale SUVs at the time, except for the Range Rover.

They fell short of what I was looking for. Most of them did not have
everything I wanted. The Lincoln came close, but I decided to sit in the
back seat to check things out. When I found my head touching the roof, I
decided that if I'm going to get something big, it should not feel cramped.
I really did not need the ground clearance, but I wanted something that
would not need tire chains when driving through the Sierras. I also needed
something with at least seven seats, and cargo space. I ended up with an AWD
minivan. A top end minivan drives much more like a good passenger car than
like a truck. I didn't find any SUVs that didn't feel like trucks, but I
didn't look at all of them. No vehicle that's big and seats many people and
holds a lot of cargo will drive like a sports car or high end sedan, but I
did end up with something with enough power that it's not a problem, a
generally comfortable ride, and all the features I needed. The only problem
with it is that my wife keeps leaving it with me and she takes my Q45. But
it could be worse.

 

Truth be told, I think Oprah would make a better President then Bush!

 

I don't think may would argue with you on that.

Especially since a large group think's that Bush is just a puppet for
the real power brokers in Washington.

I liked Bush Sr. Don't care for Bush Jr. Or Kerry for that matter.
But what other options are there?

 

My suggestion for an SUV?

Drive it to a scrapyard...

Here in the UK the furthest most of them get offroad is going up the kerb
when mum drops the kids off at school...
The Welsh police even refer to them as W*nker tankers (make it rhyme...) as
the majority of drivers they encounter have severe attitude problems when it
comes to other road users.
Add to that the fact that here at least we don't get much snow, almost all
roads are sealed, they are less manoevaerable (ever seen the results of the
infamous elk test that caught Mercedes with their A series? SUVs do
worse....), harder to park and drink fuel faster than a jumbo jet (at
£82p/litre!) and they make no sense at all (apart from being a fashion
accessory - strange reason to buy a car!)

Seems to me the whole point of 4WD vehicles has been lost. The started out
as a rugged go anywhere vehicle that was so simple to maintain that if you
needed a piston and you were stuck in the middle of nowhere you could carve
one out of a tree branch and make it well enough to get you home. Modern
4WDs have so much electronics in them that you'd be scared to look for the
problem and even if you found it you wouldn't be able to fix it without
either special BMW/Mercedes/Volvo/whatever parts and tools or a degree in
electronic control systems and acccess to a chip fabrication plant.

Maybe there is more point to these vehicles in rural areas of the US but not
in cities... there they are like a fish out of water and as appropriate as a
Smart car in the desert.