SUV.... or what is it ???

“Have a look at the new Honda Element..... whatever it is”

“SUB.....Sport Utility Box
SUV.....Substandard Urban Vehicle
SUV.....Square, Ugly, Vulgar
SUV.....Shopping Utility Van
HSUV....High School Users Vehicle”

“Pretty crazy looking. I wonder if those hoodlum kids that where the panty hoses on their heads will "sup" them up with fart cannons and spoilers like they do with other Hondas.”

“Kinda looks like they couldn't deside between a micro minivan or an SUV. They load it up with features, but couldn't get the thing a little further off the ground? What are those 12" wheels?”

“I think it's funny... SUV's have become so trendy that you make a ugly POS and stamp suv on it and it will sell... we are such sheep sometimes”

“Baaaaaaaaaaa”

“FUGLY!”

“Oh come on!
You guys don't know about the Japanese Humvee?

Where ya been?”

“Well if you want a smaller sized 4-door suv, try out a Saturn VUE. It gets great gas mileage for a SUV (All wheel drive 4 cyl. 21-city/26-hiway) (AWD 6 cyl. 19-city/25- hiway) You would also be supporting a fellow TT er, as I make em down in Spring Hill, TN! They are sporty and lots of fun to drive also. Here is their link:

http://www.saturn.com/”

“That is one ugly car/suv.
Looks like it will hold 4 backpackers and 2 backpacks.
To small.”

“EPA mileage estimates*/fuel capacity
5-Speed Manual (City/Highway) 21/25 TBD 21/25 TBD
4-Speed Automatic (City/Highway) 22/26 21/24 22/26 21/24
Fuel (gal.) 15.9 15.9 15.9 15.9
Required Fuel Regular Unleaded Regular Unleaded Regular Unleaded Regular Unleaded”

“shut, you did not see the cars that are driving around in Germany now days:
smart and one more”

“Not a terrible car for the fuel mileage.”

“ugly thats what it is. almost as bad as the aztek!”

“miss opie thank you very much. Very ugly.
If I remember right from my last vacation you can take pieces of and exchange them for a different color. I think the tires also go almost sideways (for easy parking) really strange car.
gas millage is great, but gas in germany is expensive. 1 liter for around $1.50 (actually it's around Euro 1.50, so it's not the same. A liter is not much.

anyway, UGLYYYYYY”

“opps the picture had cokecans as tires, here a better one:
smart”

“That thing is taller than it is wide.

And it looks like a death trap.”

“Get a hummer! Screw the environment! but not the H2 that think sucks..........”

“think=thing”

“we have bought 3 new hondas and have been very pleased with all of them. we currently have a 2000 CRV.”

“just drive one of These guys ”

“...sorry but I can't stop...
http://www.nordkap.ch/gallery/PIC00019G.jpg

man, I always thought driving supose to be fun. I LOVE to drive, but hey, I want a car where I can move at least a little bit around. You know so I have room to hit the gas or the break.”

“I saw one in Montreal 2 weeks back...it looks like a SUV/minivan...don't know what to think about it. I would rather get a CRV.”

“you bozo's don't know what your talkin about. loads of room inside it...its a mini H2...lots of headroom, and entirely waterproof inside...just open the doors and hose it down...

ya'll are just STUCK in your little universes, afraid of change and trying something new and being negative and skeptical about something you know nothing about...I'll bet you all said the same thing when the Kia Sportage, Toyota Rav4 and Honda CRV came out...and look how great those cars have been.”

“I like the element, stikmon, it's good!

I'd rather people drive that than a exploder or something.”

“oops, i just rechecked, our CRV is an 'ought 1 model.

guess it's cause i'm stupid....”

“Damn yuppies have given SUVs a bad name. They used to be just that, Sport Utility Vehicles, before they added all the plush carpet, leather, TVs and other extras. SUVs were for people like us who used them for what they were made for.To haul four people and their gear to a trailhead. Toss in a rick of firewood and haul it to the cabin for the weekend. A great utility for farmers, forest service workers etc. Then everyone had to have one because they're bigger and better than what everyone else had. Now, you're practically a criminal in some people's eyes if you own one.”

“Agreed indiana john.”

“Indiana John, Birch and I actually looked into the element. It doesn't have carpet! It is actually made to be abused by the likes of me, a coffee spillin' muddy boot wearin' woman who just doesn't care what the heck her car looks like, just wants something that'll fit a kid two dogs two kayaks and two backpacks. It won't fit all that stuff, unfortunately.

It is priced right. We'll wait a few years until my car is held together with duct tape and check it out again (it's sooooo nice not having any car payment). And it's just not wise to purchase a car in it's first year on the market. We'll let them get all the bugs out.”

“Sounds like a plan. I too love the no car payment deal. Makes it hard to buy a new one.I once had a Toyota Supra that I rolled to 200K then 300K. That car amazed me.”

“lol, I really just meant the carpet bit for you. I am queenof the run-on
post.”

“proof my parents really are insane: they got a Transformer Car! an Aztec...eewwwwwwww.”

“My condolences lyra”

“LOL! for real...i make SO much fun of that car whenever i see people driving it. it really is one of the ugliest things i've ever seen. but they're so nice, i can't tell them how hideous i think it is. maybe it's cool on the inside...i've never seen it. and they offered to let us borrow it for camping trips and whatnot, since it's all-wheel drive. aawww...they're cute.”

“Well said Indiana John. I'd bet that 99% of SUV's with 4-wheel drive never go off-road. Yet, during a bad snow storm, I see more of them in ditches than any other type of vehicle. It's hilarious. Stupid yuppies get overconfident. :-)”

“It's amazing how history repeats itself. In the current effort to create a combination minivan SUV with car like handling, American Automakers have sucessfully invented the Station Wagon.”

“LOL maybe they'll come back with the wood paneling on the doors”

“That'd be sweet!! :-)”

“We looked at those when we were car shopping but had some concerns about the lack of a center (side) support beam. Vehicles with that particular design feature (flaw?)tend to crumple more severely and crush the passenger compartment in collisions. We continued looking. It's a shame too, otherwise it was one of our favorites.”

“Anybody remeber the Country Squire? Green with that wood paneling. My family used that thing like an SUV!!”

“The Element sure is different...I test drove one the other day. I'm not sure if it's something that I would buy....but like Stikmon said...it's got some really cool features....like the entire inside is waterproof!

Anyway...I must be one of those yuppies that Artex is so jealous about.........I just bought an Acura MDX....now that's a nice ride....I guess it better be for 40,000 clams....”

“Personally I love the station wagon. Its an engineering marvel of form following function. We currently drive a tauras wagon (96). What a road trip vehicle. The backseats fold down and it is larger than our Eureka Timberline 2man.

The first wagon we(my folks) had was an earlier/mid-70's plymouth volare in burgundy.”

“Hope you don't wind up in a ditch like the rest of 'em, stratus. :-P”