Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:16 GMT From: still me <wheeledBobnospamo.com> Subject: Re: "Latest Saab 9-3 retains distinctive personality, performance"
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.
