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Coralfish · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject: Various Automobiles

I was at an auto show the other day, and it was truely amazing. I believe there were over 900 vehicles there, collectively valued at around 25,000,000 dollars! Unfortunately, some unsavory character took a key and scratched the whole side of this particular 90,000 dollar Mercedes convertable. There were concept cars(including, amazingly enough, a concept Jeep!) as well as others. As I am not usually one to attent auto shows this was an interesting experience. The poll is simply to get an idea of the automobile preferences here. I know there are some Euphorian-types that abhor SUV's and some that prefer 30 mpg economy cars. A topic never discussed here(to the best of my knowlege) I felt like bringing it up. If you do not drive, thats OK, I am just collecting preferences. Wink

extraneous interference · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:08 pm Post subject: cars...

hmm, I've learned to love what i've got. a '95 Ford Escort wagon.... hot wheels...

Jared · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

Well, looking realistically, I'll probably have a used pickup for quite a while.

Looking to what I'd LIKE to have, I'd definitely say an SUV. I've spent my life in the country... a low-riding car, expecially a luxury one, seems completely out of place. You step up into vehicles, not down to them. There's supposed to be room inside of them. You're not supposed to drag bottom on every little bump in the road!

SUVs drive better (I mean in ability to handle tougher roads), are more spacious, have better options... and, well, you can't take the Taurus through the fields. You think this is strange, perhaps, but no one who lives in the country goes through life without needing to go offroad at some point. Anything that can't handle a little mud, steep slopes, ruts, etc., doesn't belong.

Besides, SUVs are some of the safest vehicles on the road.

Eiram · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject:

I don't know much about cars but my dream car is a red VW bug.

Jared · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject:

Hehe...

I've never particularly liked small, dome-shaped and peculiarly colored automobiles. Smile

Coralfish · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 5:59 pm Post subject:

The Top Crusader · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject:

None can beat my mighty 1990 Beretta! Very Happy

hawkeye · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:05 am Post subject:

Coralfish: Yep! Many of them od have a tendancy to tip,but that is if you drive on say a 30 degree sloped (or greater) hill or take corners to fast....

Jared · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:17 am Post subject:

Also, that "tendency" is exaggerated. Numbers have been inflated by those opposing SUVs. Moreover, newer models have been built with a lot more thought toward this matter, and it shows.

Simply put, SUVs are just about the safest vehicles on the road.

Really, the inflated numbers on this issue are minor compared to the other nonsense the anti-Anything of a Size Viewable without Magnification crowd... I mean, the slogans drive me crazy!

When I hear them say that SUV owners are causing the death of innocent Iraqis, I get mad. It's not a war about oil, first of all. And secondly, we have not purposely attempted to harm a single innocent Iraqi.

And the "SUV Owners Fill Their Tanks With The Blood of Iraqi Children" slogan is really idiotic.

Not that the self-righteous "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign is any better.

To listen environmentalists, SUVs are responsible for global warming, global cooling (depends on the day -- as some environmentalists have observed, temperatures vary!), war, earthquakes, road rage, Rush Limbaugh, conservatism, murder, hatred, violence, etc.

Seriously, anti-SUV activists believe that SUV owners are by definition racist and violent. They describe them as people who feel a need to be superior, who hate others and secretly dream of running people down with their huge, soaring SUVs running off the blood of children.

In case you hadn't noticed it yet, the left is wacky.

Absurd.

And hyperventilating.

Coralfish · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:25 pm Post subject:

And during a national conflict, entirely too concerned about small concerns like smoking, littering, pollution, and (most unimportantly) SUV driving. Its rather sad, but I think one of the problems with the left is their inability to admit to true evil. Their evils seem to be things like littering, guns, and secondhand smoke, while they argue that our disarmament of an evil dictatior like Saddam is cruel and inhuman, and seem to always want to embrace the whole "why-can`t-we-just-get-along?" mentality. The Liberal Left just do not seem to want to admit that there is evil in the world outside of environmental issues!

This may be slightly off-topic, but just the other evening, my photography instructer was speaking with some similarly-minded students, informing them that he found a resourse that said Saddam was being framed by none other than the British Secret Service! He claimed that they were planting chemical and biological weapons etc to incriminate him, because(of course) noone could be that evil. right? And he went on and on about how this is just an opportunity for the US to take all the oil etc, etc..

I was biting my tongue, partly from wanting to argue, and partly from wanting to laugh that anyone could be so niave as to buy into a belief as pathetic as that. Now that I think of it though, why should I be suprised? There are people out there, and I just haven`t had the opportunity too meet that many I suppose.....

Truly Unfortunate. Wink