How do you like SUV's?

[UdoKier]

Poll question: How do you like SUV's?

How do you like SUV's?

[benddem]

1. I drive a Prius!

n/t

[mconvente]

4. I dont think the SUV parsay is the problem

It's the lack of innovation by automotive companies. If scientists can put man on the moon in 1969 I'm sure we have the technology to make super efficient SUVs. But since they sell like hotcakes as is, no company is gonna put money into research to make more efficient vehicles (especially American companies). Remember guys, we're talking greedy big business here, and unlike in Japan where people actually care about the environment (to an extent), American companies just want to make the most money with the least expensises, without any concern to whether or not we destroy our Earth. I just hope our next generation will have leaders who actually know science and will see that hydrogen fuel cells are the way to go.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I live in the Ozarks

and there have been times when the only reason I didn't spend the night off the road tumbled down in some ravine was because of having 4 wheel drive. But I don't use the SUV, which I purchased in 1989, all the time-only during the winter when it looks like I need it to get somewhere (usually home from work).

[olddem43]

3. That's the only valid use for them and few people need them.

[Wickerman]

5. How Do I like SUVs? Over easy

and then to the scrapyard.

[chenGOD]

6. This is how i like my hummers...

[miss_kitty]

7. i suspect the Hummer driver was a soccer mom talking on the phone

racing two blocks to pick up a quart of milk at her local Safeway.

[loudestchick]

13. SUV

Drives me crazy that, even in my minivan, I can't see around or over them. Also, I think we need standard bumper heights...I witnessed an accident in which the Escalade was on TOP of a Corolla.

That said, the new hybrid escape makes me wonder. :eyes:

[tekriter]

8. I have a Honda CR-V and I apologize to no one for it...

and I DON'T live in the hills, or on a farm. I live in a typical suburb with my typical kids and my typical wife and my typical mother lives with us, too.

When I was car shopping two years ago, I looked at small station wagons:

VW Jetta - nice wagon, smaller than CR-V, cost more.
VW Passat - nice wagon, nice size, WAY more expensive than the CR-V.
Kia Rio Cinco - too little.
Audi A4 Avant - way too expensive for me.


and so on. There aren't that many small wagons out there to pick from.

My wife loves the seating position of the CR-V, and my 80-yr old mom gets in lots easier than in my Civic. Cargo room is pretty good - we put 87 CASES of Girl Scout cookies in it this year.

And when the moon is right we get about 30 mpg.

[fortyfeetunder]

18. I bought a CR-V too.

It was a question of small enough AWD car that could fit my tall spouse.

I drove Subarus for decades but neither the Outback or the Forester could provide enough leg room. No kidding, I had to literally help get the spouse out of the passenger side after a test drive. The kid is going to be tall also so there was no way we could keep the Subies around.

It was either that or the Escape, Liberty, RAV4 or Tribute and CR-V had the best package....

And yes, its mileage compares competitively or better than the aforementioned models.

[PittLib]

9. I think they are pointless ...

but my Repub father drives a Tahoe, my single Repub brother drives the super-sized Yukon (to haul his Rottweiler, I suppose) and my die-hard dem stepmom, a Suburban. My father can be somewhat excused for the fact that he is 6'5" and has trouble with comfort in most cars, plus he and my stepmom have kids to haul around. Luckily, (?!) my brother bought a BMW, so he doesn't drive the Yukon as often. I still despise SUVs and the fact that they seem to be the Repub symbol. I resent that people are dying so that white suburban housewives can sit their asses in heated leather seats ... but that they are incapable of making the connection between the two.

[amber dog democrat]

10. I like them crushed into metal cubes

and then melted down into something more useful.

:evilgrin:

[Nikia]

11. We have a Nissan Xterra

It is very useful for driving in the snow and ice of the Wisconsin winter, especially sine the minor streets are usually not plowed right away and even plowed in. It is also good for hauling bicycles, camping equipment, our canoe, computer equipment (for the small business that my husband used to work for), and a number of other things. I drove it during road construction on our dead end street into work when a couple of fellow employees substained underbody damage to their cars. We have gotten closer parking at various events with grass parking, which turns to mud in the rain. It is easier to drive on dirt roads. It is useful to be able to take friends and their luggage with us if we are going on a trip together and actually is less polluting since we are taking one vechicle instead of two.
If we go on longer drives that don't require it, we do take our car instead. We hope to be able to get a Prias when we replace it.

[shrumbody]

12. Well, FWIW . . .

I drive a Chevy suburban on mountain roads every day, and between the weather, my 2 labs and assorted chores, it suits me fine, even with gas at $2/gal. Plus, those compact cars in front of me tend to get out of my way very quickly! LOL. Not a vehicle for everybody, but one with its own kind of usefulness.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. My love drives an SUV....

but he hauls a lot of stuff that he could not with a regular car.

For me? No way.

[mark414]

15. the smaller ones aren't bad

the Rav-4s, CRV's, etc. etc.

even the older ford explorers and chevy blazers were alright, but those keep getting bigger

hummers, surburbans, etc. etc. need to be blown up, however

[Vitruvius]

16. How do I like SUVs? Crunched into a cube, on the way to the steel mill

to be melted down :evilgrin:

It's also fun watching a Hummer inching thru NYC traffic or trying to find a parking place in NYC... But the Wall Street cowboy wannabes keep buying them...

[Maleficus]

17. I hate them as much as I hate Republicans.

And that's a lot of hate.