The end of the SUV? Hardly. Other predictions that sucked wind include the end of the rear wheel drive and the demise of the convertible ...
Mummy HUA alert...
Minorities and Children hit hardest, don't they know?
...made me smile...
Almost time to buy an Excursion.
How many people can an H1 Hummer seat? I’m hoping that they’ll be very reasonably priced here pretty soon.
I do kind of agree with him on the H2 though. Ugly and pointless.
My SUV is paid for. I had my 14 year-old daughter run the math for me, as an exercise for her to see that the MSM was hyping us all — The math problem: Let’s say we keep our Eddie Bauer 4X4 5.8L SUV Expedition for three more years. We’ll drive it 20K a year. How much would gas have to cost (right now) in order for it to make sense that we buy a new car (now) for $24K that gets twice the gas mileage of our Expedition?
Her answer: ~$14/gal. (I got a higher number, but she got the point)
p.s. Good thing the ole’ ‘97 Mustang REAR-WHEEL DRIVE, CONVERTIBLE gets 32 MPG on the highway ;-) ... if not very quickly
Impact:
Ahh, would that Miss Morford's elitism was suffering the same fate as the SUV fleet.
What an arrogant little toad. 'Pod.
The SUV is great for people who have kids and need to take them to sporting events etc. It allows you to carpool with your neighbors and have enough room to take a lot of them in one vehicle and thus save gas, time, aggravation etc. It is also great for families that like outdoor activities with their kids. If you need to commute long distances get a commuter car(a small, inexpensive, high mileage car) so that you save on gas and also on depreciation when you put in long miles. But for active families that have kids SUVs are great. I suspect that the people who hate SUVs so much are singles, divorced and homosexuals who get bitter when they see happy families with lots of kids.
I see brand new homes of all sizes with barely enough garage space for two Yugos.
It was bound to happen sooner or later anyway. American tastes are fickle and automotive fads rarely last more than a decade. The SUV has been the vehicle du jour since the early 1990’s, but it may be time for it to join tailfin equipped behemouths, giant station wagons, and bubble-topped land yachts in the dustbin of automotive fads gone by. There were SUV’s before the 1990’s, and there will always be SUV’s produced in some capacity, but I really do think that American automotive tastes are moving on. As for my daughter, she can buy her own car.
My wife just traded her Durango for a Saturn Vue crossover. We were going to hold onto the Durango (paid for) and give it to our teenage daughter, but she grimaced when we offered it to her. Apparently SUV’s have all the cachet of a minivan with the younger generation. That fact alone dooms them (the teenagers of today will be driving the auto market in 10 years).
We have an SUV and we will always have an SUV. We use it to haul things for home improvements, etc.; we use it to tow our boat; we use it as a passenger car; we use it to transport dogs (big dogs)...what car or truck can do all that. The SUV is a multipurpose vehicle, one could argue that it saves in that it serves many purposes and keeps one from having to own two vehicles.
one could only hope they go away. maybe then they’ll go back to making functional SUVs. yeah, i need the bigger engine, lower gearing and heavy duty tow package.. but why does that mean i need a/c, power everything, 8 speakers, leather, heated seats, chrome wheels, sunroof, heated mirrors, nav systems, keyless entry and $20,000 worth of other crap?
its all nice, but i just need something that’ll hold the family and tow my trailers.
and don’t even get me started on how they butchered the jeep line.
for later
And for all their bitching, it was the liberals and CAFE that made the SUV what it is today, by killing the full-sized stationwagon. Had they not done that, the minivan era never would have happened, and consequently neither would the large SUV phenomenon.