Truck? Sports Car? SUV?

APhiRattlerGal · #1 09-02-2002, 01:26 PM

Truck, Sports Car, or SUV?

Which would you prefer and why?

Dionysus · #2 09-02-2002, 02:04 PM

SUV, it would be cool to bully cars on the road.

EagleChick19 · #3 09-02-2002, 02:05 PM

IMO, I can't decide between an SUV and a sports car. I love them both!!

KappaKittyCat · #4 09-02-2002, 02:06 PM

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*

Dionysus · #5 09-02-2002, 02:19 PM

LOL @ KappaKitty, I was joking about bullying cars on the road. However, I think I would feel safer in a SUV. And, two words: OFF ROAD.

KappaKittyCat · #6 09-02-2002, 02:25 PM

But that's my point, they're not safer. They roll. They do have airbags, but they roll. That can bang you up quite a bit. They are bigger than most of the other vehicles on the road, but that tends to make their drivers careless. Perhaps you're bigger, but other guys are smaller. It's just like drunk driving. Even if you come out alive, you've probably severly injured someone else.

Dionysus · #7 09-02-2002, 02:34 PM

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Originally posted by KappaKittyCat
But that's my point, they're not safer. They roll. They do have airbags, but they roll. That can bang you up quite a bit. They are bigger than most of the other vehicles on the road, but that tends to make their drivers careless. Perhaps you're bigger, but other guys are smaller. It's just like drunk driving. Even if you come out alive, you've probably severly injured someone else.

But, when they DON'T roll, you are more likely to survive in a SUV than a car.

I'm a single 21 female w/ no kids, what on earth do I need a minivan for? Though it will be cool to be a soccer mom in the future, I'm not one now.

Dionysus · #8 09-02-2002, 02:37 PM

Speaking of Trucks, Sports cars, SUVs and reckless driving.

I read a study somewhere that men are more likely to drive recklessly in sports cars and women are more likely to drive recklessly in vans, trucks, and SUVs.

KappaKittyCat · #9 09-02-2002, 02:43 PM

If you're single with no kids, then what on earth do you need anything that large for? Try a car. A nice, simple car. They're safe. They're reliable.

Jeez, the roads are turning into an arms race. Bigger, better, faster, more bad-ass. Let's see who can destroy whom first.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #10 09-02-2002, 03:06 PM

I love my SUV!!

A '96 Maroon GMC Jimmy in fact.

I feel much safer in it than I do my other car (a little '94 Sundance) Around here we have all those curvy hilljack roads that we have to travel on constantly when the majority of the roads are flooded over. (<---the perils of living near of a grumpy river) My Sundance probably could do it..until I hit high water or something else enviromentally annoying!

So, I'm all for SUV's

KillarneyRose · #11 09-02-2002, 03:23 PM

I love sports cars! My pre-Mom car was the cutest red Miata and it was a blast to drive! When my girls are older I am getting a Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder

APhiRattlerGal · #12 09-02-2002, 03:28 PM

I dunno maybe its because i'm short , but i loved my Jeep Grand Cherokee. I saw everything!!! I drive a little dodge neon (saves gas) and I like it ok but i'm still trying to get used to not being able to see over most cars. Ah oh well he he.

Dionysus · #13 09-02-2002, 03:29 PM

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Originally posted by KappaKittyCat

Jeez, the roads are turning into an arms race. Bigger, better, faster, more bad-ass. Let's see who can destroy whom first.

You're right. Who would want to be in a car in this vehicle "arms race".

APhi · #14 09-02-2002, 03:33 PM

I agree with you KappaKittyCat. Living in Colorado everyone thinks they need a huge friggin SUV. I know a woman who lives alone and drives alone 99% of the time, has never been off road or done anything mountainy in her life and to top it off, has a Nature Conservancy sticker on her car. But for some reason she drives a Pathfinder and keeps talking about getting a huge truck. Stuff like that makes me mad.
However, if you have a bunch of kids or truly utilize the features of an SUV then by all means, drive one.

Personally I drive a Celica and I love it. However, I have fallen in love with Moab and my dog is pushing 50 lbs now so I think I want to get a Subaru next.

Rudey · #15 09-02-2002, 03:33 PM

As a gift I got to mess around with a really nice Viper at the Skip Barber school. But, my true fetish is Porsches. I find SUV's to be a waste of resources, but let's just say a Lincoln Navigator provides great amenities when you're with a girl

-Rudey
--I'm lying...I really like "bling- blingin" Escalades and modified Hondas with fake racing stickers all over.