Do people have this super urge to drive huge trucks, i mean, does it make you feel 'big' or it makes up for your defficiencies? do people not see that it does more harm than good? IMO theyre useless lol, chime in with your thoughts. dont get angry(because i know most people will), just post your opinions.
I've changed apartments three times in the last three years, so having an SUV makes sense; keeps me from having to deal with the conmen at U-Haul (rental fee + mileage + gas, blech). It's also safer in a wreck, with the exception of rollovers. You haven't really explained why or how these trucks "do more harm than good."
This is why I love three dollar a gallon gasoline. If someone wants to pay 75 bucks to fill his truck, more power to them. I don't find it annoying that someone would want to drive a truck that big. Most people who drives those big trucks are nice people in real life.
I drive a SUV. I have 25 neices and nephews and 2 little sisters that I have to constantly drive around so it makes sense to me. Also, I feel alot safer driving a SUV than a little car. Yea, its $75 to fill up, but my gas tank is larger than a small car's so i assume it evens out. You probably pump gas twice as many times as i do. As for fuel efficiency, I've driven from baytown (I-10E@ Beltway 8) to spring (45N@ 1960) and then back to baytown on about a quarter tank. Compared to when I drive my sisters infiniti G35 i'll start with a half tank and have to pump gas before i leave back to baytown.
Now that we have settled on why ppl drive SUVs, now answer his question about big trucks aside from work. I think he's asking why big trucks outside of job related?
I love my SUV! I've always driven sports cars, but then I drove the Range Rover, it drives like a sports sedan, yet I feel like i'm in my own piece of paradise when its raining or cold. I live 5 minutes from my office and actually purchased the car at a DEEP discount by buying it right after Rita and Katrina! Gas was at $6 a gallon and everyone was crying about Hybrids. I'm going to keep this car for a while, though I may complement it with an exotic sports car to fulfill that urge of driving down memorial on a beautiful spring day. Mmmmmmm Gasss.....
2004. Honestly buying it when the front cover of Yahoo Finance was "low gasoline cars and hybrid" and even the chronicle stating "the time of high gas prices is here forever" helped me negotiate pretty well. I could probably sell it today for a little less than what I paid for it after a year and a half and 20K miles.
I don't like the safety argument. It might make the driver of an SUV safer (debatable), but they don't make driving for the overall population safer. It's not safe for the Mini driver who gets t-boned by an SUV. And the SUVs (and other big cars) are unwieldy, not nimble, and do not brake as fast as a smaller car would. And the feeling of safeness probably increases the risk-taking of their drivers. For the society, they're not safe. Now that I have a second kid coming (a girl, I just learned), I'm getting pressure to get an SUV. You can fit 2 kids in a regular car.
If you drove a new one you might think otherwise. I have a brand new 2007 Expedition and it drives like a champ.
WHY HAS THIS SWAYED OFF TOPIC!!!! i was never talking about SUVs people, those might be a necessity to some people. but TRUCKS as in the things with the bed in the back! thats what i was talkin bout. i think theres no place for them other than heavy hauling where they are needed. they doo more harm than good by depleting our oil resources and polluting.
I think this has something to do with 'cowboy-riding-a-horse' thing. They replaced the horse with truck.
Not likely. It could be better than sex and I'd still deny it because I'm too stubborn to ever get an SUV. Death to SUVs. SLrocket, a "thing with a bed in the back" is a pick-up, one type of truck -- a category that also includes SUVs. Not sure why you'd be surprised. Besides, I don't see why pick-ups are less necessary than SUVs for those who drive them. They both have their purposes, and they're both used for those purposes about 0.01% of the time. At least the pickup doesn't have a reasonable substitute the way a station wagon can replace the utility of an SUV. My respect goes to the owners of vans. Vans can do most anything an SUV or a pick-up can do, but better. And, without being at all fashionable.
Actually the real winner shoudl be the minivan. Ideal for hauling your kids around, better gas mileage, and statistically safer than most SUV's in accidents. But nobody wants the stigma of being the minivan owner so they opt for less-safe vehicles. But then again, that's what SUV's market to: Perception over reality.
I think it has something to do with KISS FM radio in Houston, cowboy hats, and fat chicks. That...and hauling big ass stuff around all the time.
