Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:41:02AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >> >> > It's not much better anywhere in Europe. That's why most people drive >> > small cars. >> >> That's why I drive a small car and why small cars are popular in the >> non-retarded segment of the American population as well. :o) >> > Well, I also drive a small car usually. But I also own a SUV. There > are times when they are necessary. Like when it has snowed 8 inches, > the streets are not yet clear and you need to get to work. Or when you > want to go camping out in the middle of nowhere. Or when you need to > haul a trailer loaded with stuff.
Split the difference, then. I have a 4-door, 5 passenger truck with more interior room and horsepower than a Ford Explorer of the same year but has a smaller footprint than a 4-door compact sedan and about the same mileage as the sedan. 27 city, 35 highway in 2WD on pavement. I would argue that anything larger than a pickup truck is not an offroad vehicle regardless of marketing. A Ford Excursion and all Hummer models fail to qualify as offroad vehicles for this reason in my book. You can spend all day trying to find a route around a narrow road in one of those while I just cruise down the straight route, around you and up between those two trees on opposite sides of the trail you can't fit through... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
