Re: another SUV tirade...

["Randy B" <scirokn81@email.msn.com>]

As my father used to say.

"The only difference between a 4wd and a 2wd is that you
can get a 4wd more stuck!"


It's all in the mindset of the driver. They have 4wd, so they
figure they can drive harder and faster then common sense
would allow. The laws of physics just go right out the window.
Advertising hasn't helped much either. Companies showing
their SUV's doing eveything from climbing the side of a
skyscraper to making it to the top of a rock pinnacle in the
middle of Nevada.
Like the rice-boys, most current SUV drivers are seriously
'physics impaired'
Just my $.02.
-Randy B.

>>But then I got on the road which was all but owned by SUVs.  They kept
>>tailgating me and cutting me off.  I guess they were irritated to see
>>little Miata plodding along (and quite nicely I must add) in "SUV only"
>>weather.  Maybe I was simply invalidating their need for these monsters.
>>In fact, the only time I was ever concerned while driving was when I had
>>to dodge a spinning SUV (I don't think I need to point out the irony
>>here!).
>>
>>I guess this shows, as is so often the case, that it's the driver and not
>>the car that makes the difference...
>>
>You're right.  4wd won't do a thing to help you in snow if you don't know
>how to drive with it in the snow.  I love the 4wd in my truck but I have to
>be careful because the idiot in front of me in the SUV will do stupid
>things like slam on the brakes at the last minute and such because they
>they think there is no thought needed to drive if you have a SUV.
>
>
>John Worden
>Wayne, Maine
>
>'81 MkI w/2.0 16V (waiting for the spring)
>'86 MkII 8V  (also waiting for the spring)
>'98 Dodge Dakota 4x4





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