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Recommend book
Posted by FauxRealism [Email] (more from FauxRealism) on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:38:07
In Reply to: Re: Yes, but they did create the SUV market., cloudship, Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:29:34
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Sure there were Rovers and Jeeps around but that was a small part of the market. When we say "created the market" we don't mean to say that the Big 3 invented the SUV, only that they created the mass market demand for them.
I highly recommend the book
High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV
Keith Bradsher
From the first user review at Amazon:
The book addresses every angle of the SUV "experience" in our society:
*The legislation loopholes that tacitly support and subsidize them;
*The marketing campaigns that *imply* safety without promising anything specific (and actionable);
*The design teams that focused on a more "aggressive" image with wasteful, unnecessary features to sell to fearful, self-indulgent consumers;
*The engineering and crash tests that prove how unsafe they really are;
*And the pollution stats that prove how wasteful and environmentally damaging SUVs have been.
posted by 69.118.129...
High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV
Posts in this Thread:
- Lutz is Back!, Cloudship, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:01:23
- This should scare everyone................, MI-Roger
, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:52:07 - Re: Lutz is Back!, steve, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:32:44
- Re: Lutz is Back!, TG, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:45:24
- Other than for repeating often to become truth..., AeroBaron, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:34:35
- Same dumb BOD, newwithasaab, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:12:28
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