Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:34:27 -0400 From: Fred W <malt_houndnospamo.com> Subject: Re: "Latest Saab 9-3 retains distinctive personality, performance"
still me wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:53:08 -0400, Fred W <malt_houndnospamo.com> > wrote: > > > >>ahem... US citizen here. I don't have a pickup truck. My father had >>one when we lived in Maine. <snip> > > > He had a good reason to have one. > > >>I have a Ford Explorer, which is an SUV built on a small 1/4 ton truck >>chassis. The only reason I bought that beast was to pull my boat > > <snip> > > and you have a good reason too. > > >>I don't say that I am the average US citizen. Not in the least. The >>average guy here buys one vehicle and uses that to do everything >>including some ridiculously long commute (by himself) every day. I, >>OTOH burn more of my hydrocarbons in pusuit of happiness, than in pusuit >>of employment. And that's the way I like it, yeah that's the way I like >>it... > > > Fred, you (and maybe me) the exceptions. All the cowboys here in the > USA in their baseball hats used to buy trucks. Now most of them buy > SUV's. Few of them ever haul anything. Many SUV's are driven by women > who would never put anything bigger than their pocketbooks inside. I > know a number of guys who actually make use of their truck or SUV > enough to justify it (like you cited above). But, most of them are a > bunch of ding-dongs and hee-haws without a clue. They don't know > enough about handling and performance to even understand what a POS > their poorly conceived and poorly engineered SUV is. > > Yeah, I hear you. I am amazed at the number of goof-balls that drive their 3/4 ton V8 engined pickup back and forth to work, empty and alone. I laugh when I see them with the tailgate down, or the net in place of the tailgate, because they believe that will save them a bunch of gas. My Dad had a phrase he used to categorize this type of person. "More money than brains," he'd say. And they don't have all that much money... -- -Fred W
