Re: [Fwd: more humor/wasted bandwith]

[James Marriott <marriott@micron.net>]

Audial@aol.com wrote:

most of anti-SUV diatribe snipped

> Except that one of the wonderful side effects of this is that America is the
> World Capital of sport-utility vehicles.  Remember those?  Those pickup
> trucks with leather interiors and wood on the dashboard.  Those monsters that
> weigh 4500+ lbs and get <15mpg.  That everyone wants, that practically nobody
> needs.

more snip

The good news is that insurance companies are looking at raising the
rates for these cows something like 20%, since every collision involving
one is invariably fatal to all participants:  before flipping over the
guardrail and traumatizing the occupants with non-impact-absorbing
body-on-frame construction and then crushing them with a caved-in roof,
the overly-high bumper comes through the window of the car they T-boned
with awful brakes a 32" tires and kills the driver. Some good news . . .

> Alex
> '86 5KCSTQ
> tiny, little 5cyl. engine
> aerodynamic body
> four wheel drive

James
'87 4kq, scared to "share" the road with these things