[goldstategop]

Uh oh. GREEN WACKO SUV-BASHING ALERT!!!

[nothingnew]

I'll say this...up here in the mountains of Colorado, everybody gets out of the way when I'm rip-snortin' driving my 1980 Datsun 4/W, 4-Banger pick'em'up to the Wildcat Canyon Liquor Store!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

FMCDH

[moyden2000]

Liberal drool in print ...

[Pontiac]

Sport utility vehicles have become like guns: Everyone knows they're dangerous, but you can't exactly force millions of Americans to give them up overnight.

You can tell from this bit alone that this is from a book by a New York Slimes writer.

Can’t write about safety with out bring up guns and making baseless statements about the safety of having a gun.

[maxwell]

FINALLY, some vindication around here.

I swear, every time I get out on the roads on the motorcycle, some ignorant ass in an SUV tries to kill me. And whenever I b!tch about it on FR, some SUV-driver yells about motorcycle noise.

The damn fool things seem to be springing up like mushrooms too. Must be a plethora of insecure selfish folks in this country... That one story really struck me, about the woman who killed someone in an accident and who ran right out and got a bigger SUV... Says alot about HER character, right there. I'd have a hard time living with myself if I knew that I brought on somebody's undeserved demise...

(Most SUVs make more noise than my bike, btw...)

[theFIRMbss]

Wouldn't everyone,
if they just could, be behind
the wheel of a bug?

[BillyRubin]

The problem is with drivers, not the vehicle. I drive a sports car and would hate to be t boned by anything. I watch carefully at intersections, because there are idiots that shouldn't be allowed to drive in every type vehicle

[martian_22]

This article is humorously pathetic.
What did all these horribly selfish people drive before SUVs?

[Joe Hadenuf]

I hate small cars and other little european go carts.

It makes it hard to get the smashed up people out too, when they are involved in a major.

Ever see a little honda or Bmw that gets intersection broadsided by a nice SUV. It's ugly. SUV is always the winner.

[Gal.5:1]

Naaaaaaaaahhhh. I don't think so. My hubby practically lives in his 12 year old beat up Exploder which he uses as an office and spare digs when stuck forever on Bay Area freeways.
Other SUV drivers, to my observation, simply need the space for the children, car camping, business gear, etc. These cars have lots of space and are useful for carting stuff around. IMHO, the mean, nasty, own- the- road types drive the high end super expensive luxury cars.

[Bobby777]

My SUV (Ford Explorer) saved my life or possibly crippling injury just 5 weeks ago when a woman drove a Dodge Caravan 40mph into me while I was stopped at a traffic light ... right now I'm going to a chiropractor ... if I had been in my old Mazda RX-7 or Corvette, she would have split the gas tank and blown us up ... $12,000 damage to my SUV ...

[MissAmericanPie]

I guess, given the choice, I had rather be vain, insecure, and self centered, free, independent, exercising my free choice to drive an SUV, than petty, mean spirited, small minded, and green with envy like the author of this hit piece.

[Petronski]

I like this prototype Peterbilt "Crusader." Me wantem!

[Caipirabob]

the bigger the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to be.

What a moron.

Chances are just as likely that the SUV is being driven by someone who is so precious to someone else that they spent the extra money just to make sure they were safe on the road.

When we had the Explorer, the only reason we bought it was because my wife asked for a new car. I think prior to that she'd asked me for like two or three things, ever. She got the car, no questions.

The author probably got into a road-rage thing with an SUV and found out his civic wasn't up the challange. My advice for anyone who goes out of there way to continue or provacate road-rage incidents: Full metal jacket. If you're stupid enough to waste time with crazies on the road, you'd best be prepared for the most likely conclusion to the idiocy.

[sheik yerbouty]

Try getting a large family into a Geo Metro. Greenies are watermelons. Green on the outside; red on the inside. They should be driving trees...with a tar roof!