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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The smart set here in New York has long declared the SUV dead.
That gas-guzzling, pollutant-spewing darling of suburban and rural America is a passé relic of a bygone era, according to the book editors, fashion photographers, literary critics, Broadway choreographers and other practitioners of the bedrock industries that built this country.
They’d better stay away from the New York auto show this week because there they will see car manufacturers showing off their latest off-road contenders, and the majority of the new models unveiled at the show’s press preview earlier this week were SUVs or crossovers. Why? Because while these vehicles may have been declared dead in Manhattan, the residents of the Fly-Over states have kept buying them.
I don't care for SUVs, but it's not the vehicles themselves that bother me, it's the A-holes that drive them. Apparently, it's okay to take up 2 or 3 spaces in the parking lot because you just HAD to have the 6" lift put on your expedition.
It's also okay to cut people off on the freeway/in town because 'my suv is bigger than your car'.
I don't mind SUVs, I really don't... I just wish people wouldn't drive them like they're Geo Metros.
Not all A-holes drive SUVs and not all SUV drivers are A-holes, I will admit that. But from my angle a majority of the ones I see in my community have no regard for anyone but themselves.
It's a capitalist economy--carmakers produce what the public is willing to buy. The more product they sell (in this case, SUVs), the more profit they make. If they don't sell those SUVs, they suffer the consequences of of their actions. Responsibility--that's what makes America great, unlike socialist Europe, where the government props up failed economic models. (Ignore those headlines about the Swedish government refusing to bailout Saab).
This is proof that Americans lack long term memory. They seemed to have forgotten those high gas prices a few years ago and if they buy them and start using them again then we will have a repeat of incredibly high gas prices.
Not all A-holes drive SUVs and not all SUV drivers are A-holes, I will admit that. But from my angle a majority of the ones I see in my community have no regard for anyone but themselves.
You list your location as the "Elfin Forest". I can't imagine any elves or gnomes tall enough to work the pedals on an SUV.
You list your location as the "Elfin Forest". I can't imagine any elves or gnomes tall enough to work the pedals on an SUV.
It's actually the name of a nature preserve down the street from where I live, it's full of pygmy oaks and it borders an estuary so they call it the Elfin Forest.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The smart set here in New York has long declared the SUV dead.
That gas-guzzling, pollutant-spewing darling of suburban and rural America is a passé relic of a bygone era, according to the book editors, fashion photographers, literary critics, Broadway choreographers and other practitioners of the bedrock industries that built this country.
They’d better stay away from the New York auto show this week because there they will see car manufacturers showing off their latest off-road contenders, and the majority of the new models unveiled at the show’s press preview earlier this week were SUVs or crossovers. Why? Because while these vehicles may have been declared dead in Manhattan, the residents of the Fly-Over states have kept buying them.
They might not be the greatest on mileage, but they aren't "pollutant spewing". There are emissions standards, and all cars have to meet them.
Besides, if people want SUV's that's why they are built. There is a market for them, and as long as there is a market, they will be built; unless the government (read: OBAMA), acting like a dictator, says, "no". Which will signify the end of the USA and capitalism. I hope we are not going down that road.
Besides, if people want SUV's that's why they are built. There is a market for them, and as long as there is a market, they will be built; unless the government (read: OBAMA), acting like a dictator, says, "no". Which will signify the end of the USA and capitalism. I hope we are not going down that road.
Personally I am not against SUVs, and don't think this type of vehicles is the main contributor of greenhouse gasses. If anything SUVs contribution is negligible overall.
That being said let me take your statement and apply it to drugs instead of SUVs: There is a market for them, and as long as there is a market, they will be grown unless the government (read: OBAMA), acting like a dictator, says, "no". Which will signify the end of the USA and capitalism
What do you think now?
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