Why do consumers still continue to buy these bloated, polluting, limited-supply-of-gas-sucking monsters? Why do insecure people have to compensate by driving the biggest most obnoxious vehicles they can get their hands on?!?!
As a driver of a NORMAL SIZE CAR, I constantly have to put up with these idiots in their big metal walls-on-wheels reducing my field of view with their fat-assed bloatmobiles. It subsequently reduces my own personal safety, all because of some retarded fool needing their gigantic vehicle fix.
Don’t even get me started about what happens when one of their moronic not-paying-attention asses crashes into my small car with their tons of bloated steel..!
Screw them all, I hope they get bankrupted by the loss of their vehicle’s blue book value, as well as the price of fuel!! I hope they trip and fall out of their piece of crap Hummer H2 and break their leg, leading to gangrene!
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Personally, I drive a jeep cherokee. not horrible, i get about 22mpg out of it. I needed something like it, and couldn’t afford a newer, more fuel efficient vehicle. I’m a college student, and have very little money. Needed something that could fit a full 10 piece drumset in it, and something that would be good in the snow, as I teach skiing. It fit the bill, and it was cheap. No, i don’t expect anything back, as it is already 12 years old.
sean on November 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm | Link
I know a station wagon with big tires when I see one!
I gave up my motorcycle partly due to idiots in SUVs driving way too fast for the conditions. Think they are safer? Check the rollover stats.
What kind of moron drives one as a commuter vehicle? And then complains about gas prices. If you were too stupid and selfish to think about rising gas prices wrecking your budget, you deserve it.
I would almost like to see gas at $5 just to keep the miserable SUVs off the road.
Bill on November 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm | Link
screw the SUV idiots. they wanted to feel big, and importaint on the block. Did you ever see a short and ugly mf driving an explorer, its a hilarious sight. The SUV people should come together with Florida house flippers and cry cry cry
MR ANGRY on November 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 pm | Link
I would love to drive a small car. I also have three kids in car seats and a small dog so it doesn’t really work when we travel. In fact, We drive a Tahoe with 3rd row seating and still have to leave stuff behind when we travel (Stroller, play yards, etc). I think its great when people who don’t need to drive SUVs don’t. Terrific. Great for them and the environment. Some people do need them. Why not a mini-van? They suck.
clemedu on November 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm | Link
You drive what you want. I’ll drive what I want. I have a harley, a jeep, an f1-50, a 21 ‘ boat, my wife drives a car and i’m working on a ‘72 Blazer. Nanny Nanny Boo Boo!
gabe on November 4th, 2008 at 5:38 am | Link
I drive a SUV, because I coach youth sports all year , summer my son’s baseball team, many of the kids ride with us to away games, fall tackle football team, and winter its basketball, I hate small cars that get in my way and slow me down, they are not safe either, my daughter had a ford escort, and rolled it over on icy roads, we bought her an impala the 2nd time around, you keep driveing your little piecs of **** around , and conserve enough gas so I can keep drive my surburban, and hauling your kid to the games each week, because your to damn cheap to drive to the game yourself, don’t forget to turn in your guns, and vote for obama today, goodbye freedom, hello socialism….
rugged on November 4th, 2008 at 6:43 am | Link
Amen rugged! couldn’t say it much better myself!
I drive a big SUV and I don’t need to explain to the like of your hippe ass why. I need one and for the most part I like driving it cuz I know it pisses people like you off.
yale on November 10th, 2008 at 5:31 pm | Link
gotta also say here that large SUVs are far more efficient than those small vehicles. If you not intelligent enough to figure this one out ask Ill explain!
We should ban those pesky very very dangerous increadibly inefficient scooters that have become so popular!
yale on November 10th, 2008 at 9:15 pm | Link
yale,
I’d be interested in how you have determined that large SUVs are far more efficient than those small vehicles.
I despise all of the people who think they need to go out and get the biggest SUV because they have one small child, and believe they need all that wasted space. I drive a small 2004 chevy tracker that gets 29 mpg and I can fit 5 full size golf bags and 5 high school linemen in it. It can fit a 7′ 6″ surfboard inside. Why do large SUV drivers drive like they own the road? drive like a civilized human f***ing being.
Jarrod Miles on March 19th, 2009 at 8:25 pm | Link
so? what the crap?
Jason on July 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am | Link
I love hearing the excuses about why minivans are not an acceptable substitute. Excuses and rebuttals for your enjoyment:
1. I need the four-wheel drive, because I live on top of the world’s second (apparently undiscovered) Mt. Everest.
The Toyota Sienna is AWD. That means it’s ALWAYS four-wheel drive. You don’t even have to press the little button on your dash. See? That even fits your criteria of having the vehicle compensate for your lack of driving ability or having to exert yourself in any way. Not to mention as a side note that Subaru has an ENTIRE LINE of AWD vehicles that are less obtrusive than your Schwarze-U-V.
2. I need the room. SUVs are so ROOMY!
Yeah, this one’s obvious. If you’ve been in a minivan, and then you’ve been in an SUV, we all know which one actually has more room. Not to mention the minivan has more leg/foot room, since those 47 kids of yours WILL grow up some day. Of course, you don’t mind buying a brand new behemoth-mobile every 2 years anyway, so maybe this is a moot point.
3. Minivans are WIMPY, and I’M A MAN! I need an over-compensatory SUV to feel the way a MAN should!
Yeah… this is where you need to just get over your tough-guy consumerism-quelled passion for all things “man”. Just because you bought something doesn’t mean you got more manly. That’s weak.
Sub1ime14 on July 29th, 2009 at 7:36 am | Link
Rebuttals and anti-rebuttals for your enjoyment:
1.) A transverse engine AWD minivan is an acceptable substitute for an SUV:
Not so much. Most real SUVs have what’s called a transfer case (a great big chain and gear affair made of metal) versus AWD vehicles which have a center differential (goo-filled coupler which transfers some power to the rear based on a differential in front and rear wheel speed). Viscous center differential vs a real transfer case? No question a transfer case is far more durable under duress than an angry donut full of heat-activated gelatin. What’s more is that it does make a difference, even for someone who doesn’t use their vehicle for utility purposes.
Watch and see after a snowstorm how many “AWD” vans and poser crossover utilities are in the mechanic’s for burnt up viscous diffs just for trying to get out of a plowed in parking space. I know at my shop it’s always a pretty great moneymaker. This goes for Subarus too, though far less so than normal AWD as an afterthought crossovers.
2.) SUV’s aren’t as roomy as Minivans:
Correct. But once you’ve spat the third overtaxed front wheel drive automatic transmission and fifth set of CV joints out of your Dodge Caravan by using it to ferry your 3 kid family, dog and a small load of gear, it doesn’t make much difference. Rear wheel drive body on frame platforms are more durable.
3.) Men buy SUVs because they saw one on a beer commercial:
False: Men buy SUVs against the advice of chubby socialist women in pantsuits who would otherwise badger them into Caravans or Priori because chubby socialist women in pantsuits don’t know much about engineering. A history lesson:
Back in the day, families had station wagons; rear wheel drive, V-8 powered behemoths that ferried 3 kids, a dog, the luggage and a boat with relative ease and reliability. This was the case until the early 1980s when CAFE regulations made it basically impossible to have a V-8, rear wheel drive based car.
So, families bought Taurus wagons and Caravans, which promptly spat out head gaskets and transmissions like meth-addicts spit out teeth and wheezed torturously along when pointed uphill with a full load. This would not do.
The alternative was the Suburban, which if you look at it is basically a 4 wheel drive version of your father’s Caprice Wagon. Same pushrod engine block. Same transmission, but with an overdrive. Durable. Capable of pulling a bass boat and the kids up a big hill at freeway speed. Doesn’t crap out at 80k miles. People snapped SUVs up in droves because the same basic family transportation requirement hadn’t changed since the 1960s (a durable, powerful wagon), but the free market was not able to provide for it because of a perversion in regulation that tried to force consumers to buy an inferior if more fuel efficient product.
That’s just my analysis. Take it or leave it.
Carl on June 16th, 2010 at 2:48 pm | Link
LOL, yea they can be pretty bad drivers most of the time.
auto on July 7th, 2010 at 12:02 pm | Link