SUV Insanity

The latest fashion statement in America's idiotic obsession w/ automobiles???

"Report' States The Obvious
6/16/99

Japan Decides SUVs Need
Even Bigger Engines
9/2/99

SUV Murders Son Of MIA
2/9/00

Oil Shortage???
Who'd A Thunk' It???
3/9/00

Another Brain
Damaged Victim
1/29/00

Ford + Firestone =
Dead Humans

An overpowered, overweight Sport Utility Vehicle.

They tend to burn more fuel, cost more to buy
and are less stable  when taking evasive maneuvers.

The Jeep series of SUVs are notorious for
rolling over and ejecting occupants who
were too stupid to fasten their seat belts.

On the good side they are very heavy.
If you hit a regular car, you will probably
crush it's occupants you might survive.

This is one of the main attractions to SUVs.

SUVs were originally intended for use in
work or recreation that required the transport
of heavy loads and/or off-road travel.

Now they are being used to go to work or buy a loaf of bread.

I got the photo below from Reuters via Yahoo.
They failed to note that gas-guzzling SUVs are
a big part of the reason for our Mid-East mess.


U.S. Army soldiers remove a damaged vehicle after a bomb exploded as a convoy of SUVs commonly
used by civilian contractors and Iraqi officials drove past on the airport road in Baghdad, 12/1/04.
The airport road is the site of almost daily attacks against military and civilian vehicles.
Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters