RE: Audi/Porsche, SUVs, .....

["Amirkalali, Mohamad A (Mohamad)" <mamirkalali@lucent.com>]

Well, I don't like SUVs either. But, I can understand why everybody and his
brother is making them. PEOPLE BUY THEM. Every year about a million people
are replacing their cars with SUVs. In the process, the car companies are
making loads of money. As an example, the margin on a suburban is ~$11,000.
Can you guess how many Cavaliers GM has to sell to make that much in profit?

How does ~90 Cavaliers grab you? As long as folks buy them, they will make
them. It's that simple. In the mean time, we have to contend with increasing
numbers of  5' 2", 105lb people driving 5000 lb. vehicles @ ~68 mph with
virtually no idea of what is going on around them. A month does not go by
that I don't encounter one of these characters enter the high way, move
three lanes to the fast lane and almost brush my front end. After the driver
eventually sees me he/she gives me a finger as if I was tail gating. Mean
while, I am trying not to get run over by another idiot driving another
monster truck behind me. At least I try to get the set of bumpers out of my
rear wind shield !!! May be my problem is that I am much too much aware of
the laws of physics. Mass kills and some (may be most) drivers have no idea
that stopping a 5,000 lb. monster takes some skill and awareness.