SUV Foe Norman Lear Has 21-Car Garage

Newsmax ^ | January 9, 2003 | Carl Limbacher

[Ronaldus Magnus]

There are plenty of other reasons to avoids SUVs like the plague. Most of them can be summed up in two words: crash compatibility. And when the legal weasels find a way to get in on that angle, the manufacturers and any owners involved in a crash better hold onto their wallets.

Crash compatibility is the best reason to get a large SUV. By that same legal logic, Yugo owners should fear the coming onslaught of lawsuits by "outgunned" scooter owners involved in the dreaded mismatch of motorcycle/subcompact car collisions.

[isthisnickcool]

I purchased a new SUV this past weekend. It seats 8 people but usually I'll be the only one driving it*. That's when I'm not driving my sedan that has been highly modified and can hit 160mph.

My machines have DVD players and XM radio and I like the tires to spin when I hit the gas.

*Soon to have 20 inch wheels, headers and cat backs, reprogrammed chip and supercharger.

[GunsareOK]

Heard on a report about the Detroit Auto Show that it has 1000 horsepower.

[Search4Truth]

Well he doesn't drive them all at one time!

[Paul Atreides]

I'm curious as to where these people were during the Clinton 90s, when SUVs were really gaining their popularity.

[steve-b]

Well, the SUV ads did work insofar as they exposed the inanity of the drug ads. However, while the former were no doubt inspired by the latter, I think they were intended at face value. In that, they failed miserably.

[Paul Atreides]

He also doesn't fuel them with vegetable peelings either!

[isthisnickcool]

There is a VERY good reason for self-employed people to drive an SUV that weighs more than 6000 Lbs.....

That's true and why we purchased the SUV.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Wow! I'd like one of those Kenworths. Would they really make one? I think I'd finally be able to take along with us everything the wife packs.

[kcvl]

Norman Lear's summer home, where poet Robert Frost once lived, is no remote retreat. The multi-building estate on a hillside in southern Vermont includes offices, a gym, a screening room, as well as spacious living quarters decorated in an American flag theme. Phone lines blink and intercoms buzz as Lear's business interests track him down.

Sitting comfortably in the expansive living room, wearing his trademark white sailor's cap as groundskeepers busily prepare for the weekend birthday celebration

[sheik yerbouty]

Everytime Huffington flaps her gums, she is spewing out hot greenhouse gases. Maybe she will reverse the flow and produce methane, and "bottle" it.

[Paul Atreides]

That was the first attack on suv's by the left: only people of substantial means get to buy them, so it is unfair and elitist that others should be made to feel bad because they cannot afford one. Apparently, the class envy didn't work.

[thetruckster]

I got this info from another, similar thread. If we don't buy from these guys, apparently we are supporting terrorists:

"The following companies import ZERO oil from the middle east:
"Citgo, Sunoco, Conoco, Sinclair, BP/Phillips, Hess.

"Since BP serves this area, Sunoco the northeast and Conoco the west, you can drive all over america and never buy one gallon of gas from them Islamic fellers."

Thank you, GailA.

I do know that Conoco is very active in Russia which is home to far more oil than ANWR.

[paguch]

A 24 car garage would use more energy for heating and cooling than my SUV. Don't tell me he does not heat and cool it. The Elite just want to tell us how to live so they can enjoy their wealth.

[kcvl]

In places like California, Mother Nature may pose an even bigger threat than cat burglars. Scott Reuter, owner of Exhibit Safety Services in Brentwood, Calif., recently spent three months earthquake-proofing producer Norman Lear's art collection. And one Los Angeles collector paid him $7,000 for a special "seismic base isolation device" -- previously found only in the J. Paul Getty Museum -- to protect a Dan Dailey glass sculpture.

[Paul Atreides]

Well, that is only natural. You see, he is more deserving than you or me. He cares more. He is more intellectual. He is superior. Therefore, you and I would not be deserving of such riches by mere virtue of hard work. We would give money to the wrong people. We would support the wrong candidates. We would support the wrong causes and charities. Norman Lear's America is one in which luxury is not for those who have worked for it, but for those who think in the correct manner.

[tractorman]

Al Franken is really starting to look like Herman Munster lately.
I saw him on - I think it was Donohue. What a hoot!
I love watching liberals spewing their idiotic tirades.

[paguch]

Arianna's address is arianna@ariannaonline.com Don't expect an answer. All the elites want from the common people is their money for their causes and obedience.

[IYAS9YAS]

I think the Yugo would still lose. I'd take my chances against one of them while riding a Vespa any day...