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According to market research conducted by the country's leading automakers, Bradsher reports, SUV buyers tend to be "insecure and vain. They are frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. They often lack confidence in their driving skills. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors and communities. They are more restless, more sybaritic, and less social than most Americans are. They tend to like fine restaurants a lot more than off-road driving, seldom go to church and have limited interest in doing volunteer work to help others."

He says, too, that SUV drivers generally don't care about anyone else's kids but their own, are very concerned with how other people see them rather than with what's practical, and they tend to want to control or have control over the people around them. David Bostwick, Chrysler's market research director, tells Bradsher, "If you have a sport utility, you can have the smoked windows, put the children in the back and pretend you're still single."

WTH is this crap??? I'd like to have a SUV, and I'm a VERY good driver, no tickets, no accidents, I let people in, the works. But here in the DC area, ALOT of the drivers suck, car, SUV, van, whatever. If I could I'd get a Lexus RX300 (no its not a sissyUV-LOL) or a Suburban. And I'd do it because I like the truck and the amount of room I can have, instead of getting a van.