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Re: In defense of SUVs
Posted By: julian, on host 194.213.87.193
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 23:51:49
In Reply To: Re: In defense of SUVs posted by gabby on Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 14:42:02:

> Sick? Why? The styling certainly isn't bad enough to deserve a "yuch." Plus, SUVs are fantastically safe. I like the news blurb from a few months back when a man drove off a cliff in his SUV. It fell about 100 feet and then rolled. The man walked away without any injuries.
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> gab"Don't try this at home"by

Well, styling is in the eye of the consumer. Regarding the notion that SUVs are safe, I would really have liked to find a link to an article I read in a car magazine by an american journalist named Jamie Kitman. He described walking his son to school and having always to be on the lookout for moms flatout in V8-powered trucks babbling (I think his words were) into a cell phone with junior rattling around in the back. On a side note, I rate this type of people as "stupid". My point is this. Sure, it's safe for the people riding in it, but what about everyone else? Pedestrians, bicycles, people in smaller cars...

jul"I like that story too, but I'll dismiss it as statisticaly insignificant, if you don't mind"ian

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