[FateAmenableToChange]

I hate my wife’s minivan with a passion. Part of that is due to it’s being a dodge, part is due to the look of the thing. As one hippy wanna-be car reviewer noted in a review of SUVs and minivans introduced at the Detroit auto show 7 or 8 years ago, a SUV looks like an aggressive, snarling predator while a minivan stood on end looks like a pregnant woman in a flowing skirt. I like aggressive.

All that said, when 3-gun season rolls around, it carries 4 rifles, 2 shotguns, 2 pistol range bags, 2 add’l pistol cases, 4 suitcases, a case of bottled water, a cooler, 6 ammo cans, the dog, and the kids, easily. A comparable sized SUV does not.

[brownsfan]

” ... a SUV looks like an aggressive, snarling predator while a minivan stood on end looks like a pregnant woman in a flowing skirt. I like aggressive.”

If you depend on the looks of the vehicle you drive to define you, I feel sorry for you.

[Notary Sojac]

Yep. We went on a three week Civil War battlefield tramp a couple of years ago. Me and my brother, two kids, tents/coolers/sleeping bags/camp stove, a week's worth of food and water at a time, and enough room for one of the middle seats to fold down any time someone felt like taking a nap.

I wouldn't care if it was two/tone peach and pink, it did the job.

Now that we are moving to the country, I am going to need a 4wd to climb the hills on our property and plow the driveway. But you can bet it's going to be a good used Jeep CJ or maybe an older Land Cruiser if I can find one, not one of these bling-blinged posermobiles that are called "SUV"s' today.