Has anyone else noticed... (re: SUVs)

[sms001]

Portillo's, a lovely fast food joint that serves some of the best hot dogs and cheese fries ever.

[HIJACK] mmmmmm.............. Portillos burgers........ Yeah, the dogs are good, but a little on the pricey side. What I really miss are those truly grilled burgers - every thing Burger King claims to be and isn't I finally got a connection for Vienna All Beefs up here (No Gonnella (sp?) rolls though.) and I'm not missing Gino's East pizza as much, but darn I want a Portillo's burger.......Thanks for the memory![/HIJACK]

[BlaqueKatt]

No one drives through swamps or hauls lumber in a Mercedes.

Beg to differ-my uncle does-he owns a seed corn company and he's constantly taking their Mercedes SUV into the fields-much to the chagrin of my aunt

His reasoning for owning it-"I needed a new truck, Mercedes makes sturdy cars, I can afford it so why not?"

[myswtghst]

[HIJACK] mmmmmm.............. Portillos burgers........ Yeah, the dogs are good, but a little on the pricey side. What I really miss are those truly grilled burgers - every thing Burger King claims to be and isn't I finally got a connection for Vienna All Beefs up here (No Gonnella (sp?) rolls though.) and I'm not missing Gino's East pizza as much, but darn I want a Portillo's burger.......Thanks for the memory![/HIJACK]

Love their burgers too. And my brother and I actually went to school with a couple of Gonnellas, who were related to the founder of the bread company.

/Random trivia hijack of my own thread.

[Sliceanddice]

lol well concidering the transmission i had to have rebuilt for my car cost most than the car is worth (wouldnt have done if i had a proper quote up front- would have just gotten a new one) i think i can handle seeing it go.

[Seshat]

It depends - some of the most expensive SUVs I know of are real off-road vehicles, owned by off-road enthusiasts who actually leave the city sometimes.

If you know what you're looking for, though, you can tell. The real off-roader has different tyres, usually painted either a safety or a practical colour, different accessories. Maybe a CB radio antenna, though that depends on cell phone coverage. Sometimes a winch.

And if you're walking past them in a mall parking lot and glance into the back, the off-roader has a tool kit and a first aid box. The status symbol has more status-symbol stuff - whatever's in fashion right now.

I find it funny how a lot of people cannot stand SUVs (or at least the people who drive them). Where I come from (out in the country) a lot of what you would see was pickups and the occasional SUV (the good ones). Who was usually behind the wheel of those vehicles? All of the farmer's wives, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, etc. They would usually be the ones who could (and sometimes would) outdrive you. There's one lady in that town who I think could handle driving her Suburban: she drives a school bus regularly. :-p

Their SUVs would have tools and first aid gear too. There's a huge difference between work and status vehicles, and frankly, I'd rather share the road with the work vehicles.

As for the Mercedes work vehicle someone mentioned - the reasoning seems sound to me. But then, when I'm buying work gear, I like to buy it to last, too. I just can't afford Mercedes. :P

[powerboy]

My next vehicle is going to be an Truck or an SUV. I am planning on my own business, so why not.

[mariamousie1]

My mom would say people who drive Jeeps are the biggest idiots.

[Becks]

Beg to differ-my uncle does-he owns a seed corn company and he's constantly taking their Mercedes SUV into the fields-much to the chagrin of my aunt

His reasoning for owning it-"I needed a new truck, Mercedes makes sturdy cars, I can afford it so why not?"

Blaque, works for me.

Tell him he gets the Becky seal of approval™®©.

[Acolyte]

Whitehorse is an anomaly in the SUV stereotype. Most people up there who own an SUV can actually drive it and often need it and use it for rough driving conditions (These are generally people who work in construction, mining, lumber and other assorted industries where you have to drive on insanely horrible excuses for roads).

Although, amazingly, they're not very popular up there. Most people take a pickup or a minivan instead-not that I'm complaining AT ALL.

[Kogarashi]

My mom would say people who drive Jeeps are the biggest idiots.

Aww, I drive a Jeep (Grand Cherokee LE).

Honestly, after driving the Jeep for the past three years, I wouldn't want to go back to a dinky car like my parents' old Escort. It feels like I'm driving around in a tin can.

Hubby and I have determined that Jeep Cherokees are tanks (at least from the mid-late 90s, like ours), and new cars these days are made of cardboard. I barely tapped a car in the parking lot with our Jeep. They got a softball-sized dent (which we paid to have removed, yes), and all we got was a bit of scraped paint. A friend has a Jeep of the same make (different year, though), and was rear-ended by another car. The other car crumpled like tissue paper; her Jeep barely had a scratch on it.

My dream car is a pickup truck.

[machinest]

What I have always found ridiculus is SUVs that are being meticulusly driven arround puddles therby holding up trafick.

[AriRashkae]

I like my Dad's livestock haulin' pickup. Thing is huge, and I actually need to pull myself up into it. But I'm 10+ year's out of practice on a standard, so I don't take it on the road unless it's the only way to get to the other side of the property. I'm not afraid of an accident; I'm afraid of burning his clutch out and ruining his job for the next 2 weeks.

[Spiffy McMoron]

You know how alot of people have two different vehicles? One is their everyday "Work vehicle" (commuting, gets the groceries, etc.) and the other is the "nice vehicle" (take it out to impress the neighbours, go to church, the kids want to borrow that car for a date...).

One thing I've noticed:

-People who have a car as their work vehicle have a truck/SUV as their nice vehicles. (You drive to work in a Civic, but drive to the company BBQ in your Yukon Denali)
-People who have a truck as their work vehicle have a car as their nice vehicle. (Back home, I can't even begin to count all the people who use a truck--hard--on a daily basis, but go to town or church driving a Buick or Lincoln.)

[ditchdj]

I'm alive today because I was driving a "Stupid Useless Vehicle" a year ago when I got rear-ended by an 18-wheeler. I will never again own a "standard" sized car, and my next vehicle is likely to be bright yellow, or some other highly visible color. I'll be more than happy to endure all the insults, as it will mean I'll still be alive!

Hey Primer, after you read this, you might wanna consider driving a cement mixer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21228894/

[protege]

-People who have a car as their work vehicle have a truck/SUV as their nice vehicles. (You drive to work in a Civic, but drive to the company BBQ in your Yukon Denali)

Of course some of us have a car as a work vehicle...and another car as the nice vehicle But, if I had to get an SUV of some sort...I'd get an old Land Rover, or an IH Scout. Both of those are usually cheap over here, and are sometimes nearly given away. Easy to run, tough as nails...plus they're classics