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The SUV Is Dethroned
Wired's Autopia blog documents what we all knew was coming: rising gas prices have killed off the SUV. Auto industry watchers had predicted that the gas guzzlers in the "light truck" category would lose the ascendancy by 2010; no one expected their reign to end in a month, in the spring of 2008. Toyota, GM, Ford, and now Nissan have announced they will scale back truck and SUV production and ramp up that of smaller passenger cars. Of course there will always be a market for this class of vehicle, but its days on the top of the sales charts are done. "'All of our previous assumptions on the full-size pickup truck segment are off the table,' Bob Carter, Toyota division sales chief said last week during a conference call with reporters. Translation — we have no idea how low they'll go."
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You should have gotten the H2 option to use flexible fuels, like baby seals; then you'd be killing two birds with one stone.
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If Mac is run over by an SUV tomorrow do you think the police would think the same thing?
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I probably would have looked her in the eye, and then cranked the door open. Look startled as it hits her car, and try again. Then look at her, look at the car door, and try it once more. I love rental cars and 0 deductibles.
> A metre is a metre (well, a meter at least) but it's the same distance.
Unless you are a spacecraft engineer, and then a meter is the same as a foot !!
* it's just not practical to strap 2 kids, a wife and a bag full of groceries on top of it Where's your sense of adventure???? :o)
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Yes, they are. Poorly designed station wagons with less interior space.
By your logic you might as well call a van a poorly-designed subcompact.
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HEY, this is America! Our 2.4 children ARE too large to fit in your undersized small penis Japanese sedans. /sarcasm
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