[c-b 1]

Today, the family car is no longer a modest station wagon, but a Suburban, a Yukon, or an Excursion or a Land Rover or an Escalade.

Give me a break! You can't buy a modest station wagon. These same anti-america greens whined, and screamed back in the 70s until the government forced the manufacturers to shrink everything down to where you can't buy a real car. What do they expect people to do?

[goodnesswins]

YEAH...what YOU said....I'm walking today because of a '91 Ford Explorer....which, when stopped at a light, with ME in it, was hit twice.....and lived to tell about it. Did about $10K damage....glad I wasn't driving our little '83 Honda Accord - I'd have been thrown into oncoming traffic.....and NOT be here, I believe. Go POUND sand, you who criticize SUV's.....I haul the grandkids around, have camped in it, and it's still going strong at age 12. /RANT

[Parley Baer]

I just bought a used 2000 Tahoe with 4 wheel drive and the Z71 suspension. This is the best vehicle I have owned yet. If any of the greenies don't like it I will show them what my 5 cell MagLite looks like. Parley

[zebra 2]

You're right. About the only real, non-luxury car you can still buy, other that an SUV, is a Ford CV or Mercury GM. I've got two of 'em. And I live miles up in the hills on clay dirt roads; as they say...Slippery when wet. But my wife and I do OK in our full-sized sedans, two (rear) wheel drive and all. I'll moan the day Ford quits making them.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Give me a break! You can't buy a modest station wagon.

I have a Ford Taurus wagon. I think that is a modest station wagon. There are wagons more modest than this and they are available. Also there are vans available, they have some of the benifits of SUV's.