On the auto bailout

[Joe Redifer]

I think a lot of people buy SUVs because they feel safe in them.  They feel as if they cannot be hurt in an accident.  It makes me want to cake my car with C4 so I take them out if they ever hit me.  The only drawback to that plan is I'd be gone, too.

[Ceti Alpha]

I think a lot of people buy SUVs because they feel safe in them.  They feel as if they cannot be hurt in an accident.  It makes me want to cake my car with C4 so I take them out if they ever hit me.  The only drawback to that plan is I'd be gone, too.

lolmax!! Ya, that video pretty much proved that people believe that SUVs make them more safe than someone in a Dodge Neon. But, like like so many things in the world (i.e. politics, religion, sex, etc...), what people believe doesn't make it true. Even if SUVs were safer than the "shit-ass-car", all this video showed was that these people were only looking out for themselves. They couldn't care less if their SUV squished some other car in an accident.

As for what nectarsis was talking about, I understand what he's saying - my brother has an old 69 Ford Maverick. But most people don't go out of their way to buy classic gas guzzlers. Eventually, gasoline powered cars will be weened out of the streets everywhere.

...although, Kirk is driving an old Mustang in the new Star Trek trailer...

*starts writing J.J. Abrams hate mail*

[nectarsis]

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[nectarsis]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-12-22-toyota-slashes-outlook_N.htm?csp=34

Wow...bet GM, Ford, and Chrysler wish they had that track record