If you hate SUVs...

[TheZue]

I think the only cars anyone should complain about are the pickups that are raised so the bumper is sitting at everyone else's head level. I don't care if you guzzle gas or block my view but if you bumper is sitting higher than a semi's purely for vanity I think that is uber lame.

So enjoy your SUVs, no need to justify them here

 

[Castlebound]

I got rid of my SUV... I don't hate them, but I honestly can't see why people say they need one when a wagon can do the same job for less money.

We live on a 1/2 mile private gravel drive and a wagon would not be going anywhere today. We have 8 inches of snow, sleet, and freezing rain on the ground. We have a Highlander with 4 wheel drive and because of the sleet and freezing rain it was still tough to get out. While a wagon works great for you it isn't for everyone. Our Highlander will hold 7 people and that is great since we carpool with two other families to school 30 minutes away. Both of the other families also have SUVs and both also live “in the woods”.
Besides all of that I just think that wagons are ugly (just my opinion), and only worked as good kid haulers before seatbelt laws. I went to a Catholic grade school in St. Louis and I remember one family with 10 kids and a wagon. It was like a clown car when they would load and unload at school. Kids sat on other kids laps, and they also sat in the cargo area.

 

[NTDreams]

...and you are very vocal about it, especially vocal to the people who own them...

If you are always making comments about their gas-guzzling and ugliness...

If you state that YOU would never be so "selfish" as to drive one...

And you do this often enough that people are talking about you behind your back because, though they like you, you are so silly about this...

And your car runs off the road and gets stuck in the snow on the way home from the hospital...

Please don't call the SUV owner you've called "selfish" and launched into your anti-SUV diatribe with to come pick up your wife and drive her home, then come back and haul your perfect and unselfish car out of the snow.

Because we have to bite our tongues so God-blessed hard that they bleed.

It injures us.

Thanks.

HAHAHAH I want an SUV BADLY but I can't afford the gas or the payments in this current economy. I will say that I hope one day to own a Hybrid SUV. I think it's environmentally irresponsible for most to buy and SUV unless you live in an environment where you need it. ( I live in New England) BUT only if you aren't "erasing" your footprints in other ways like liht bulbs or solar power.

But good for you for sticking up for yourself!

 

[tink_n_pooh]

I'm happy to say that my gas-guzzling-no-need-for-it SUV got me (and a co-worker) safely to and from work today in another snow-ice-yuck storm Oh and my Jeep gets better gas mileage than my MIL's car so Ha!

I've given up on those who have nothing better to do than complain about the vehicle I'm driving

 

[OK!]

haha same here. We always see them racing past us along the highway...I think that they don't realize that the ability to go doesn't mean you can stop haha.

Exactly. I saw a couple off the road this morning on the way into work and was nearly hit by one more who came flying past me only to start sliding as soon as we hit the elevated portion of the highway. Grr.

 

[DawnCt1]

So funny and so true. My BIL; "No one needs an SUV. If the roads are that bad, you just stay home". Then he started working in a hospital where you just can't stay home". They have an SUV now.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

They were actually probably complimenting you on your driving skills, rather than thinking about your vehicle. Just b/c a person has an SUV doesn't mean they know how to drive it, especially in the snow, especially using 4 wheel drive. We know plenty of people who have them just b/c of the look of it, but couldn't drive it properly in the snow to, well, save their lives.




Wait wait. So you think that karma caused a person who doesn't like a type of vehicle to get stuck in the snow? Call me crazy, but I doubt my Korean Buddhist hubby and MIL would agree that karma was involved in there....


It wasn't that they just didn't like her SUV, they degraded her about it on a regular basis. . Would you have the nerve to call for help from the very vehicle you called her "selfish" about?

And I would rather be the one killed, rather than kill other people. So we're definitely different.

My kids are in the car with me. If I have a safer/bigger vehicle than the other one, I'm not going to apologize for it. You can go out and buy an SUV for yourself. I don't go out commando looking for Mini Coopers to run over. Well, not every day anyway.

 

[yeartolate]

...and you are very vocal about it, especially vocal to the people who own them...

If you are always making comments about their gas-guzzling and ugliness...

If you state that YOU would never be so "selfish" as to drive one...

And you do this often enough that people are talking about you behind your back because, though they like you, you are so silly about this...

And your car runs off the road and gets stuck in the snow on the way home from the hospital...

Please don't call the SUV owner you've called "selfish" and launched into your anti-SUV diatribe with to come pick up your wife and drive her home, then come back and haul your perfect and unselfish car out of the snow.

Because we have to bite our tongues so God-blessed hard that they bleed.

It injures us.

Thanks.

Myself, I prefer AAA to give me a tow. Not that I need a tow, as I have a mechanically reliable toaster with wheels. So no need to go out of your way.

Seriously though, I prefer that people drive more fuel effecient cars. I have absolutly no problem with standards being set for fuel effeciency. I have to admit I am dumbfounded to see all the people in their supersized SUV in the slow lane because they didn't even have the second person necessary to get into the HOV lane.

Frankly, depending on your family size and needs an SUV isn't a bad choice.
I am not the person to judge their needs, but I will hope for better fuel effeciency. I do think anything we can do to minimize our need for fossil fuels is a good thing. Actually alot of SUV's are getting much better mileage.

But no need for me to buy a car that is too big for my needs and too cost ineffecient to run and maintain. I will keep my AAA membership. Even though my reliable toaster on wheels will never need it, I at least get good discounts.

My main diatribe BTW against suv's is a selfish one. Pick a parking space and stick to ONE. When you park in a compact spot it makes it so folks on the other side a cannot back up safely. And if you go over the line and extend your backside into a second metered space. I will personally LMAO when you get ticketed for not filling both meters.

 

[Axel]

We live on a 1/2 mile private gravel drive and a wagon would not be going anywhere today. We have 8 inches of snow, sleet, and freezing rain on the ground. We have a Highlander with 4 wheel drive and because of the sleet and freezing rain it was still tough to get out. While a wagon works great for you it isn't for everyone. Our Highlander will hold 7 people and that is great since we carpool with two other families to school 30 minutes away. Both of the other families also have SUVs and both also live “in the woods”.
Besides all of that I just think that wagons are ugly (just my opinion), and only worked as good kid haulers before seatbelt laws. I went to a Catholic grade school in St. Louis and I remember one family with 10 kids and a wagon. It was like a clown car when they would load and unload at school. Kids sat on other kids laps, and they also sat in the cargo area.

10 inches here and my Subaru Outback Sport edition (a wagon, btw) got out just fine. No troubles, no slipping, no nothing. Ran fine. My dad, on the other hand, drives a truck with much more ground clearance, but ended up in a ditch less than two minutes after leaving the house. And we're on a mostly private road, too. There's about a quarter mile of unplowed private stuff before we get to the 2.4 miles of it-got-plowed-once-at-ten-this-morning road.

Just remember this: A Subaru Outback is not your mother's wagon.

And to whoever said they hated lifted trucks, ITA! There's one kid at my school that drives a really lifted truck with a crude bumper sticker in the back window ("It's lifted because fat chicks can't jump"). He is so annoying- more so when he's in said truck.. It's a brand new (well, 2008) truck that his dad bought and paid for- including the modifications. He pulled up beside me leaving the school yesterday and I could see clear under his truck!!!

 

[DLBDS]

From one SUV owner to another....

 

[acejka]

It takes two hands to count all the little prius's I saw stuck off the road in the last 2 days... I'm proud to say that my gas guzzling SUV made it everywhere I needed to go just fine and dandy thanks....

I'm actually in the market for another SUV though. I will own 2 suv's and a Mustang... I guess I'm the cause of global warming right?

OP you are a much better person than me because I would have told them to call their local towing service. After they were so nasty about your car, I wouldn't have helped.

 

[pr surfer]

a wagon cant tow a horse trailer!

You're right. It can't. A wagon couldn't tow my boat either.

I rent a pickup truck on the 4 days a year my boat needs to be moved.

However, I've seen a decent size mobile home being towed by a Kia wagon before, and the wagon didn't look like it was struggling.

We live on a 1/2 mile private gravel drive and a wagon would not be going anywhere today. We have 8 inches of snow, sleet, and freezing rain on the ground. We have a Highlander with 4 wheel drive and because of the sleet and freezing rain it was still tough to get out. While a wagon works great for you it isn't for everyone. Our Highlander will hold 7 people and that is great since we carpool with two other families to school 30 minutes away. Both of the other families also have SUVs and both also live “in the woods”.
Besides all of that I just think that wagons are ugly (just my opinion), and only worked as good kid haulers before seatbelt laws. I went to a Catholic grade school in St. Louis and I remember one family with 10 kids and a wagon. It was like a clown car when they would load and unload at school. Kids sat on other kids laps, and they also sat in the cargo area.

No snow, no sleet, no freezing rain here. However, if my Jettas (both sedans, no wagons for me, I don't need one) and my Acura (hatchback) can make it up to the rainforest, through roads that haven't been paved since the 1920's in an area subject to volcanic and seismic activity, and as a result are as bad as any gravel road can be (with pothole that made my old 4Runner shake enough to shift my fillings)... I'm sure the cars (and my driving) can deal with a half mile gravel drive.

 

[Magic Mom]

Karma, it's a beautiful thing.


I have NO snow here, but I won't give up my SUV. It's safer than a small car and if I am in an accident, as selfish as it sounds, I would rather be the one in the SUV than the cute little car. Sorry. It's also safer for me because a car is too low to me, I need to be able to see where I am going.




No station wagons or minivans in this family.

A little Mitsubishi hit our Cherokee (DS was driving)....the Mitsubishi was totaled, and the Jeep had a small crack on the corner of the bottom trim panel.

 

[Handbag Lady]

My main diatribe BTW against suv's is a selfish one. Pick a parking space and stick to ONE. When you park in a compact spot it makes it so folks on the other side a cannot back up safely. And if you go over the line and extend your backside into a second metered space. I will personally LMAO when you get ticketed for not filling both meters.

That is exactly my beef with them here in L.A. They block the view of everyone around them and to most people, their answer is to buy a bigger one! Idiots.

So for snow people. Okay. For non-snow people, I laugh at you and your driving habits. Plus, I love watching you SUV-people try and parallel park on Ventura Blvd. in traffic.

 

[yeartolate]

A little Mitsubishi hit our Cherokee (DS was driving)....the Mitsubishi was totaled, and the Jeep had a small crack on the corner of the bottom trim panel.

My last corolla was in a major accident. A car landed on the passanger side my car. After that we flew into the soundbarrier. 360'd accross a 5 lane freeway, we hit the median barrier on the drivers side. My son and I walked out alive ( I only suffered a dislocated thumb and wrist problem). Our little corolla sedan with 150,000 plus miles on it protected us quite well.

I felt very comfortable buying another one.

 

[Kimberly]

Well, if it counts for anything, I just topped off my tank this afternoon for a little bit of a road trip tonight. I went 164 miles on 10.030 gallons of fuel. I think my friend's truck does better on fuel.

 

[yeartolate]

Well, if it counts for anything, I just topped off my tank this afternoon for a little bit of a road trip tonight. I went 164 miles on 10.030 gallons of fuel. I think my friend's truck does better on fuel.

I went 369 miles on my last tank. So that was less than 20 dollars for a smidge more than 10 gallons. Carrying around two 6 foot plus 14 year olds, a disabled mothered with wheelchair and oxygen equiptment. During planting season I can tell you that I can fit a dozen 2 cubic feet bags of dirt in the trunk without a problem. The tree partially sticking out the back window is a little humorous. My little corolla toaster gets a workout.

 

[pezheadmeg]

Wagon driver here. My Focus hatch back has the 4wd and can tow up to a pop-up trailer. Yeah, I went a little crazy with the options. But my mirrors have heat and don't need to be scraped, at 4 am that's a major plus.

The kicker my father's CRV gets better gas mileage. Yes, I've considered upgrading to a small SUV, simply for the better mileage.

 

[Nickimouse]

I don't go out commando looking for Mini Coopers to run over. Well, not every day anyway.

My husband drives a Mini and I drive a full size SUV. I figure that evens things out.
We have it to tow our camper. Plus when IKE blew through it was very handy to hook the camper up to,take out the third row seats and put 2 dog cages and 2 cat cages in the back. Then still plenty of room for the rest of our family.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

My husband drives a Mini and I drive a full size SUV. I figure that evens things out.

You know I was only kidding.. I love the look of those little things, but I would be scared to death to ride in one. I hope your DH stays safe in his!


I actually have a somewhat small SUV, a Toyota FJ Cruiser. It gets about 20/22 mpg, so not too bad. It's fun to drive, I get to sit up high, and it's yellow so everyone can see me coming. I have had an SUV for the past 22 years, except for my last car..a Ford Freestyle. I should have known it was too low, but I didn't listen to myself, and it drove me crazy for 2 years of driving it. Felt like my behind was sliding on the ground. It got about the same mileage as the SUV I have now.