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The SUV is dead — long live the SUV
MSNBC ^
| April 10, 2009
| Dan Carney
Posted on 04/11/2009 9:39:49 PM PDT by Lorianne
SUVs, crossovers dominate at 2009 New York auto show ___ The smart set here in New York has long declared the SUV dead.
That gas-guzzling, pollutant-spewing darling of suburban and rural America is a passé relic of a bygone era, according to the book editors, fashion photographers, literary critics, Broadway choreographers and other practitioners of the bedrock industries that built this country.
Theyd better stay away from the New York auto show this week because there they will see car manufacturers showing off their latest off-road contenders, and the majority of the new models unveiled at the shows press preview earlier this week were SUVs or crossovers. Why? Because while these vehicles may have been declared dead in Manhattan, the residents of the Fly-Over states have kept buying them (to the extent that anyone is buying anything more than food and water these days).
While the perception coming from the mainstream media is that there is a hatred of SUVs, the numbers dont show that, observed Rebecca Lindland, director of auto industry research for IHS Global Insight. Consumers want a mixture of utility, fuel economy, safety and practicality.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: auto; automakers; cars; crossover; fordescape; kiarondo; mazda5; mercurymariner; suv; toyotawish
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:39:49 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
I tried pulling my boat with a Segway......
Didn’t happen....
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:41:53 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
To: Lorianne
People like SUVs because they are practical vehicles. Liberal snobs hate 'em. Every one else loves em.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:42:14 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
To: Lorianne
The smart set here in New York has long declared the SUV dead.
Well, that settles that then. It's well known that the rest of us out here in the boonies can't make a move until we find out what the smart set in New York thinks we should do.
To: Lorianne
I’ll be driving one for a long time.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:44:35 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
P*ss on the “NY smart set”. I left there in ‘77 and haven’t been back since.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:45:58 PM PDT
by
Windcatcher
(Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Here in heavy snow and rural mountain fly-over country, they can take my 4WD Jeep Wrangler from my cold, dead hands.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:46:07 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: Lorianne
Went to a classic car show in the Tower District in Fresno today. What a blast!! I miss the good old days.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:49:44 PM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(For victory & freedom!!!)
To: Lorianne
“The smart set here in New York has long declared the SUV dead.”
Not smart.
Never were.
Never will be.
About anything.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:49:55 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: Lorianne
Yeah, in 74 and 79 they thought they had it all figured out too...
Me, last August, at 4.25 per gallon, got a Yukon Denali, fully loaded, for nothin...
Who’s driving in style, and who’s lookin like a dork on a moped?
To: goldstategop
Alas, SUVs--because they are such big vehicles--are also fuel guzzlers (unless we start seeing more diesel-powered ones!). As such, the days of the large SUV are coming to an end.
It's more likely that in the next 4-5 years we'll be see a lot more in the USA vehicles that Europeans describe as multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs). Two models in this category are already on sale in the USA:
Kia Rondo
Mazda5
There are persistent rumors that Honda is looking at bringing over the next-generation version of the Honda Stream or FR-V to the USA market within a few years.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:53:03 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Lorianne
I’ve got five boys. My Suburban is getting too small.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:53:05 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
To: Inyo-Mono
My choices are the 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid, 1999 F150 4x4 and 1998 Explorer 4x4. All of them are serviceable through the months when my street is covered with 6 inches of ice plus as much new snow fall as has occurred the previous night. When I arrived from San Diego with a Saturn SL2 and SW2, I got caught short on the first 6" snow fall. I couldn't get out of my driveway. I've had no repeats of that problem with the 4x4 vehicles. It's Spring now. When it isn't raining, I'm riding my motorcycles for casual transport. The Mariner serves to fetch a week's worth of groceries. That's a bit over the top for a motorcycle.
The NYC weenies can put their noses up at the SUV. It's a perfect compromise in my world. I wouldn't live in their world.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:54:43 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: RayChuang88
The wheel diameters and ground clearance are inadequate on both of those vehicles. Freezing to death in a vehicle trapped in snow is a poor tradeoff for saving a little money on what you really should have purchased. It's easy to snag a vehicle like that in a "high centered" condition. Nothing short of a tow truck will pull you out.
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posted on
04/11/2009 9:59:36 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: RayChuang88
2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrd (4x4)
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:05:11 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
The vehicles I just described are more for drivers in the West and southern states, where dealing with snow is much less of a problem.
But where winter snows are a problem, we'll be seeing a lot more smaller 4WD SUVs replace the large gas-guzzling SUVs. That's why the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 have done quite well in the US market. And Ford is working on bringing a version on this model:
Ford Kuga
...to the US market within a few years as a replacement for the Ford Escape small SUV.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:08:54 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Lorianne
I’ll keep my pickup with it’s modified 350HP engine!
I wouldn’t have one of the Tonka Toys if it was free.
Pedal to the metal with gasoline only!
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:08:55 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: RayChuang88
An off road version of the mazda 5 would be perfect.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:11:29 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: Lorianne
Today I saw one of those smart cars on an LA freeway. They are no match for any other car in a wreck. You'd get squashed like a bug. I can only think of that Limbaugh parody of the Elvis tune... "In A Yugo"...
Probably a couple of well edjacated libs with a short shelf life.
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posted on
04/11/2009 10:15:18 PM PDT
by
BigFinn
(Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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