why do people like big ugly SUVs?

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Motorcyclists have been getting pushed around by cagers while getting "holier than thou" mpg for over a hundred years. This isnt just a new SUV fad, its human nature.
 

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I am rarely attracted to the personalities of those who would own/drive SUVs.:biggrin1:.

I can't even get out of parking space when one is parked beside me. When two are parked beside me, I feel ambushed. My backing out becames a game of Russian Roulette. Also, so many people seem to have so much trouble seeing when driving SUVs. The design creates so many blind spots.:rolleyes:

There are, however, horrible drivers of every automobile type. Driving is one of those things which brings the worst out in humanity. :eek:
 

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  • People feel safer driving an SUV This is true.
  • People feel the only other option to an SUV is a minivan and neither men nor women care for the domestic image a minivan projects Plus they are ugly. :tongue:
  • People in northern climes like to have AWD True
  • You can see more of the road in an SUV This is a huge advantage!
  • Gas was cheap when SUVs became popular[/quote]True
U wanna try driving round central London.
the streets are narrow, the road systems are stupid and everyone drives bloody SUVs! Why? It always seems to be mothers taking their kids to school as well :-s dunno why. And they're SO bad for the environment. tbh, so are most standard american cars though. they most have HUGE engines. like camaros, 5.2 litres? wtf? *leaves quickly before hate mail arrives* [/quote] We need bigger engines because our country is bigger and we live farther apart. :tongue::biggrin1:

'Wish I could fit in a Mini Cooper (I'm 6'2"). I love those little cars!
They are cute! I'm 5'8"and cannot fit comfortably in one of the Saturns or the Corvette Convertible. :mad: I can get into it easily with the top down. :smile: With the top up is a different matter. Getting out of it I look and feel like I am getting out of a clown car. :mad::biggrin1:


I don't like them persay, but when you have a family of 6, it's a necessary evil.
I agree, It's not like you can fit them and their stuff in a station wagon. Especially since few companies make wagons any more and the ones that do have cut their size so that they are of little to no use.


granted, but in the UK, when you have a family of mum, dad, and one bambino, a SUV becomes a necessary evil: ROTFLMAO three people does not warrant need of an SUV!! Unless you show St. Bernards and Afghan Hounds in your spare time you need to come up with a nother excuse/reason for owning an SUV. :biggrin1::tongue::rolleyes:
In the 1990s -> I need a Landcruiser.

I don't know. I thought it was illegal to have a car that did more than 25 mpg in the States. :smile:
:tongue: Incorrect
I think I am going to get an Audi A5 3 litre turbo diesel. 0 - 60 in six seconds, restricted to 155 mph and will do 50 mpg on the open road.
Oooo that sounds sweet! Did I mention I am a car queen as well. :wink::cool:
 

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Originally Posted by anonimar:
"granted, but in the UK, when you have a family of mum, dad, and one bambino, a SUV becomes a necessary"

evil: ROTFLMAO three people does not warrant need of an SUV!! Unless you show St. Bernards and Afghan Hounds in your spare time you need to come up with a nother excuse/reason for owning an SUV.

to be clear NJQT, i was being ironic. I was trying to reflect the state of affairs in the UK in so much as when some folks have one kid, it seems they suddenly 'need' an SUV. I wasn't endorsing this, just highlighting it. So i agree with you 100%; you don't need an SUV if you have one kid.
 

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There are legitimate uses for big SUVS, as has been pointed out. Shuttling kids to soccer practice, grocery shopping, or routine solitary commutes to work in fine weather are not among them.
 

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i've never driven one before, but have been in a Nissan Pathfinder. It was enormous and moved like shit off a shovel. It's wrong that something so big can move so fast because the fuel/diesel is going so fast! (There'll soon be supplies of gas from Iraq and Afganistan soon so no need to worry about shortages:eek:...) I always put £50 into my Focus which almost fills it up (that translates into, according to XE.com - The World's Favorite Currency and Foreign Exchange Site, $103.60 for a tank of fuel). This is a standard hatchback with a 55ltr capacity fuel tank - the SUV's must have huge tanks, otherwise they'd be stopping every 10 mins and it's costing them a fortune.

Top Gear showed a Hummer H2 which got 1mpg when Clarkson floored it. That should be made illegal, seriously. A boeing 747-400 (typical trans-atlantic jet) gets 19mpg per seated person!

Green tax is a scam by the British government. They have no intentions of reduces co2 emissions by increasing tax. They just want more cash. If they wanted to reduce emissions, they tell give car manufacturers a limit to adhere to. :mad:
 

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in response to my previous post - i know the british government do set limits for emissions, but if you can drive a car which gets 1 mpg legally, then there's something wrong...
 

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I'm a HE-MAN and my SUV is a chick magnet. I need that ego boost everytime I rev up that V8 hemi to prove I am a man.

No woosy foreign weakling SUV for this butch guy. I'm a man and I drive a MAN's vehicle. Only real men drive big powerful SUV's. Hell I got the tatoo on the left arm to prove it. I also got me some cool man shades too.

I ain't no geek and I've got nothing to prove. I drive what I drive because I'm just 100% beefy masculinity. Can't help it.

Besides CHICKS DIG IT.

:rolleyes:
 

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I just traded in my Pilot for a CR-V.
Got fu*ked on the trade in and didn't even feel it!
The pilot got HORRIBLE gas mileage, plus it was ugly, but it was nice inside:
CRV Gas Mileage: 28.6 Probably more had I slowed down even more.
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SUVs are an especially ugly symptom of a much bigger problem: America's resistance to decent, cheap, efficient, convenient public transportation.
 

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I come from a rural area, and I travel home there from Brighton to work for my family business, it's a beautiful place, hills, forest and valleys, and now very wealthy, I drive a VW Golf, partly for headroom, (I'm tall), partly for the IPOD port, partly for the great drive, but mostly for the fuel efficiency and reduced Carbon emmissions. The problem is that the roads, or lanes really, are pretty narrow, sometimes very, and quite often have steep sides with various undergrowth poking out that can scratch your motor good! So people buy SUVs, so they can rule these lanes, and often you'll find yourself being barged out of the way by one of these monsters speeding by, and coming up close to the edge...scrrraaatch. So, people think, if I can't beat em, join em!

So more SUVs, also very fashionable with the Surrey set....

I resist, I love my Golf, it kicks ass, and drives a fucking dream. Also, with petrol now costing over £1 a litre, I just couldn't afford it.
 

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I resist, I love my Golf, it kicks ass, and drives a fucking dream. Also, with petrol now costing over £1 a litre, I just couldn't afford it.

What's sad is that smallish 3- and 5-door hatchbacks actually fit the definition of "Sport Utility Vehicle" better than those overblown minivans-with-lift-kits. They're sporty to drive, they have enough cargo space to qualify as being utilitarian, and -- well, they're vehicles. :wink:

'Wish I could fit in a Mini Cooper (I'm 6'2"). I love those little cars!

Have you tried sitting in one? I'm also 6'2", and I fit quite well in a Mini. The headroom's a little tight if I also want to wear a helmet, though. :biggrin1:

Anyway, yeah, it's amazing how shortsighted so many people are. It's just another reminder of how many dumb people populate the left half of the bell curve.
 

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why do people by little wimpy Miatas?

why do people spend on truck-like MPGs for a high performance car with no cargo capacity?

why do people spend their whole day analyzing SUVs? :biggrin1:

u could go on all day... ppl gonna buy whatever the hell they like lol i cant believe so many people sit around and whine about SUVs... theyre just pickup trucks wit caps on the back n some extra shit inside

all i know is being higher off the ground in a pickup or an suv sounds like a pretty good idea when i can barely see over shrubs and bushes in parking lot/intersection corners in my 05 sebring :tongue:
 

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If you drive an SUV in the city it stands for Silly uncool vehicle.
If you actually offroad then perhaps you get to call it a sports utility vehicle.
SUVs were originally buiilt for offroading. Sometime in the 80s they replaced the minivan as the family car of choice, which had replaced the station wagons. Everyone knows that minivans are dorky as hell. It was no longer feasible to make the amount of car American car manufactureres knew they could make money with in the form of a car. It would be far too polluting. So they went and filled the niche of gas guzzling family mover with a truck based vehicle...SUV. They aren't even built for offroading anymore in some cases. You can buy a Suburban with 2WD. WTF!? Do you really need 44 cubic feet of space, leather interior, and 5000 dollars of rims and wheels to reach some remote part of the woods with 5 friends and supplies. No!
I don't care how much beer you bring...some of those features are unnecessary, and furthermore the car probably wont be able to get as far offroad as the Jeeps and Internationals of yesteryear. New SUVs are too big to even do what they were originally meant to do.
It is a combination of the market filling a niche with something that is akin to crack...readily available comfort.
As fun as a walk to the post office is...few people do it once they have a big ass SUV. No one wants to give up that luxury, and manufacturers provide it readily.
If I ever eat these words and buy an SUV, I make one stipulation now...I will only drive it offroad.

I wish I hadn't been reckless and totalled my 84 Accord. 230 000 miles. Still got 31 to the gallon. Nothing replaced except timing belts and one clutch.

Now that I know hybrid batteries a re a bad source of pollution, thanks to Simcha.....I am thinking of finding another 80's Honda if I ever need to replace my Camry.