[KappaKittyCat]

SUVs are evil! There is no excuse to have one. If you need a big vehicle to haul people around, get a minivan. If you need a big vehicle to haul stuff around, get a truck. Both are cheaper. Both are safer. Both get much better gas mileage. SUVs may insulate their passengers from crashes, but they destroy the occupants of the other car. SUVs roll. Their center of gravity is too high, becuase they're as tall as their parent Humvee, but narrower. According to the Department of Transportation, SUVs are the most dangerous vehicles on the road. However, people who drive them tend to think that they own the road just because they're large. You can't see around them. They're horrible in the city; they take up way too much room parallel parking on the streets. SUVs do have 4-wheel drive, but good cars, minivans, and trucks have 4-wheel drive also, so if you live in a place where you need it (like Wisconsin in the winter), you have that option.

I cannot think of very many people who really, truly need anything larger than a Honda Civic. If you really feel that your vehicle is that much of a status symbol, then get a sports car. Don't waste the resources and risk the lives all so that you can be bigger and badder than anybody else on the road.

Thank you.
*descending from soapbox*