SUV/Truck mentality
September-16th-2002, 04:01 PM
#16
Wok the Wok
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Calgary, Canada
Posts: 785
Originally posted by foxymazda
Yeah but dont forget you gotta love the way they cant seem to fit into one damn parking spot. So they just kinda park...oh I donno all over the place!!!!!!!
Yeah but dont forget you gotta love the way they cant seem to fit into one damn parking spot. So they just kinda park...oh I donno all over the place!!!!!!!
crooked. Dam I hate that!!! Then they end up scratching my door when they try to get in and out. That's why I park a little farther from where I'm going to nowadays. F*** I hate that!!!
Sorry...just gets to me LOL
September-16th-2002, 04:26 PM
#17
Make it bounce!! (BOING!)
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 348
SUV's and their owners can suck my ***. F that king of the road bullshit. When they run up on me like a jackass thinkin I'm movin over cause they're bigger, I give em a dose of the brakes hard enough to watch em get squirrely. Make em think twice about how safe their vehicle feels.
The whole BS line that they are safer cause they have a "commanding view of the road" is just Marketing glitter (and look how easily Soccer moms and Dads are fooled.) How the hell is the view better with more of these behemoths on the road every day? Their view gets no more commanding when the everyone else is driving a tank. May as well put a wall on your hood and drive a round, cause that's exactly what's its like with these barges on the road.
Truth is, most of these damn trucks aren't even good pretenders. They handle like **** on the road and marginal at best off road. Just look at the tires they come with. American General or other street oriented tires. I can see if you live in a desolate area (like Hazzard County, tundra, or mountains) and actually have a need for a truck, but 95% of us don't.
Unless your a member of the "Walton" family and have 15 kids, it's just irresponsible to own one of these POS SUV XLT's. Buy some birth control. Anyone with kids and half a ******* brain would stay away from these trucks. Buy a P5 if you want a people mover.
The whole BS line that they are safer cause they have a "commanding view of the road" is just Marketing glitter (and look how easily Soccer moms and Dads are fooled.) How the hell is the view better with more of these behemoths on the road every day? Their view gets no more commanding when the everyone else is driving a tank. May as well put a wall on your hood and drive a round, cause that's exactly what's its like with these barges on the road.
Truth is, most of these damn trucks aren't even good pretenders. They handle like **** on the road and marginal at best off road. Just look at the tires they come with. American General or other street oriented tires. I can see if you live in a desolate area (like Hazzard County, tundra, or mountains) and actually have a need for a truck, but 95% of us don't.
Unless your a member of the "Walton" family and have 15 kids, it's just irresponsible to own one of these POS SUV XLT's. Buy some birth control. Anyone with kids and half a ******* brain would stay away from these trucks. Buy a P5 if you want a people mover.
September-16th-2002, 04:35 PM
#18
protege5.0
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 796
canyonero!!!!!
Canyonero
5F10 - 22nd February 1998
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
Sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams
She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
5F10 - 22nd February 1998
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
Sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams
She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
September-16th-2002, 04:46 PM
#19
Show Layne some respect
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Long Island,NY
Posts: 2,458
The safety aspect also comes from size and weight - if a 6000 lb SUV nails your 2500 lb Protege, which one is going to win?
It is a false security though, because no matter what you drive an accident will throw you around inside the vehicle. And SUVs have a HUGE tendency to flip over in crashes - I've seen more than my share of minor bumps on the sideof a parkway, but it got serious becuase the SUV flipped. If it were two cars, it would have been a fender bender with just damage and no injuries.
This is why there needs to be some sort of legislation against these monsters. They keep getting bigger - as do the attitudes of those who drive 'em.
And they are just a joke. I can't help but laugh whenever I see some soccer mom in a Denali or Navigator, and of course it has the full push bumper/grille guard/brush guard/offroad lighting treatment. Gimme a ******* break. You'd cry if the brush guard actually HIT BRUSH and got a little scratch, but that's what it is SUPPOSED to be there for, dumbass! And the closest these suburban housewives get to offroad is driving on the unfinished gravel partion of the brand new mall parking lot. Little do these people know that REAL drivers are cracking up.
To me, safety is the ability of a vehicle to aid the driver in avoiding accidents, not the ability to plow through them. I have never felt unsafe in a small car - the handling ability and more importantly the braking power of a small vehicle is more beneficial than size to me.
Hehe - it's not the size, it's how you WORK it!
Go Pro!
~HH
It is a false security though, because no matter what you drive an accident will throw you around inside the vehicle. And SUVs have a HUGE tendency to flip over in crashes - I've seen more than my share of minor bumps on the sideof a parkway, but it got serious becuase the SUV flipped. If it were two cars, it would have been a fender bender with just damage and no injuries.
This is why there needs to be some sort of legislation against these monsters. They keep getting bigger - as do the attitudes of those who drive 'em.
And they are just a joke. I can't help but laugh whenever I see some soccer mom in a Denali or Navigator, and of course it has the full push bumper/grille guard/brush guard/offroad lighting treatment. Gimme a ******* break. You'd cry if the brush guard actually HIT BRUSH and got a little scratch, but that's what it is SUPPOSED to be there for, dumbass! And the closest these suburban housewives get to offroad is driving on the unfinished gravel partion of the brand new mall parking lot. Little do these people know that REAL drivers are cracking up.
To me, safety is the ability of a vehicle to aid the driver in avoiding accidents, not the ability to plow through them. I have never felt unsafe in a small car - the handling ability and more importantly the braking power of a small vehicle is more beneficial than size to me.
Hehe - it's not the size, it's how you WORK it!
Go Pro!
~HH
September-16th-2002, 07:32 PM
#21
Demands Perfection
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 344
Excellent Commentary (And another of my rants!)
Warning: This is a long post, guys, mostly ripping on SUV's. Don't feel like you have to read it all!
Anyway, discussions regarding the poor safety and irresponsible nature of large SUV's has been covered many times before on the forum, but I'm never sorry to see it repeated, especially when so well spoken by everyone here.
I've noted specific references to the incredibly inept safety characteristics of these vehicles, and would certainly reiterate that: Aside from their tendency to roll over in certain accidents, it also is worth noting that they are dreadfully incapable of AVOIDING A ******* ACCIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE. So here you have poser/wannabe tough guys (and women) driving around in these things who can't drive in the first place (in any vehicle), and then when presented with an emergency situation the sheer bulk and weight behind these vehicles prevent them from being limber enough to avoid the accident in the first place. Stopping distances are longer, steering response is god awful, and there's no way it's going to stop until it hits something (or someone). And when it does it's going to KILL innocent people. I damn well hope at least some SUV drivers are reading this: Did you hear that, ********? You get in an accident and you're going to KILL people. It's not as if standard passenger cars do enough damage and create enough carnage in all of our respective countries throughout the world each year on their own. SUV's just make the trend worse; a lot worse. So here's the question: Is it going to be someone's young son or daughter? Is it going to be an expectant mother? Is it going to be someone's loved grandparent? Well it's going to be someone, and YOU killed them-- All because of your ignorant ego and lust for notoriety. I generally try to be a respectful and understanding fellow, but to the SUV craze I cannot help but salute such people with a big **** YOU.
If find SUV drivers, specifically those who buy and drive such vehicles for the purposes of feeling high and mighty (i.e. they NEVER drive off road and use these vehicles for their true purpose), most distasteful. Their blatant irreverence for environmental protection, dependence on foreign oil (which people in the U.S., at least, whine about all the time), and the terrible disregard for the well being of others is shocking and immensely shameful. It's all about them, and I for one have no respect or tolerance for such a selfish mentality. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but let people who drive those damn things see what happens when someone they love gets hit by one of those SUVs. You know how terrible they'd feel? Well that same thing is what their doing to other families who also have people they care about.
Now I'm not running around preaching Peach and Love and all that ****-- It's just that, to the people who love and drive SUV's, you've just gotta be less of an ******* and start thinking about what the hell you're doing. I mean, ****.
Anyway, discussions regarding the poor safety and irresponsible nature of large SUV's has been covered many times before on the forum, but I'm never sorry to see it repeated, especially when so well spoken by everyone here.
I've noted specific references to the incredibly inept safety characteristics of these vehicles, and would certainly reiterate that: Aside from their tendency to roll over in certain accidents, it also is worth noting that they are dreadfully incapable of AVOIDING A ******* ACCIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE. So here you have poser/wannabe tough guys (and women) driving around in these things who can't drive in the first place (in any vehicle), and then when presented with an emergency situation the sheer bulk and weight behind these vehicles prevent them from being limber enough to avoid the accident in the first place. Stopping distances are longer, steering response is god awful, and there's no way it's going to stop until it hits something (or someone). And when it does it's going to KILL innocent people. I damn well hope at least some SUV drivers are reading this: Did you hear that, ********? You get in an accident and you're going to KILL people. It's not as if standard passenger cars do enough damage and create enough carnage in all of our respective countries throughout the world each year on their own. SUV's just make the trend worse; a lot worse. So here's the question: Is it going to be someone's young son or daughter? Is it going to be an expectant mother? Is it going to be someone's loved grandparent? Well it's going to be someone, and YOU killed them-- All because of your ignorant ego and lust for notoriety. I generally try to be a respectful and understanding fellow, but to the SUV craze I cannot help but salute such people with a big **** YOU.
If find SUV drivers, specifically those who buy and drive such vehicles for the purposes of feeling high and mighty (i.e. they NEVER drive off road and use these vehicles for their true purpose), most distasteful. Their blatant irreverence for environmental protection, dependence on foreign oil (which people in the U.S., at least, whine about all the time), and the terrible disregard for the well being of others is shocking and immensely shameful. It's all about them, and I for one have no respect or tolerance for such a selfish mentality. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but let people who drive those damn things see what happens when someone they love gets hit by one of those SUVs. You know how terrible they'd feel? Well that same thing is what their doing to other families who also have people they care about.
Now I'm not running around preaching Peach and Love and all that ****-- It's just that, to the people who love and drive SUV's, you've just gotta be less of an ******* and start thinking about what the hell you're doing. I mean, ****.
September-16th-2002, 09:45 PM
#22
Protege Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 54
The thing that really gets me is it's usually these same people that say hypocritical **** like;
1) "I'm patriotic" So, I use more gas to help our Middle east "friends" to like America more.
2) "my child was student of the month at dumbfuck middle school". wonder why kids these days are more suseptible to lung cancer? Take a look at the line of SUV's belching smoke at them as all of they all get dropped off at school. brilliant... Hey, I've got an idea. Instead of forcing your kids to breath hard by making them lug around 40-60lbs of books to school in the futile hope that it will make them smarter. How about you improve the quality of air around them so they have more brain cells to learn with?
3) "those fixed up imports are ruining the streets with their lowered cars." Oh yeah, I guess that 5,000lb tank is real easy on the pavement in comparison to my 2,000lb compact.
4) Ever see someone drive their ******* Ford Excursion/Expedition/Navigator/etc. by themselves in the HOV lanes using their freaking "Fast Track" pass. I hate that. So, wait let me get this straight... I'm subsidizing the "Fast Track" lanes with my tax dollars so some dumbass can drive all by themselves in a huge ******* tank that will probably kill someone some day cause they're on their cellphone doing 90-100+mph behind me???
I just wish those people would go
themselves. That way there'd be less of them in the gene pool...
1) "I'm patriotic" So, I use more gas to help our Middle east "friends" to like America more.
2) "my child was student of the month at dumbfuck middle school". wonder why kids these days are more suseptible to lung cancer? Take a look at the line of SUV's belching smoke at them as all of they all get dropped off at school. brilliant... Hey, I've got an idea. Instead of forcing your kids to breath hard by making them lug around 40-60lbs of books to school in the futile hope that it will make them smarter. How about you improve the quality of air around them so they have more brain cells to learn with?
3) "those fixed up imports are ruining the streets with their lowered cars." Oh yeah, I guess that 5,000lb tank is real easy on the pavement in comparison to my 2,000lb compact.
4) Ever see someone drive their ******* Ford Excursion/Expedition/Navigator/etc. by themselves in the HOV lanes using their freaking "Fast Track" pass. I hate that. So, wait let me get this straight... I'm subsidizing the "Fast Track" lanes with my tax dollars so some dumbass can drive all by themselves in a huge ******* tank that will probably kill someone some day cause they're on their cellphone doing 90-100+mph behind me???
I just wish those people would go
themselves. That way there'd be less of them in the gene pool...
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