Except when an economy car skids on the ice and crashes into an SUV, the front bumper doesn’t go through the SUV at the height of the SUV driver’s head.
Huge difference.
Just to let you know it is not a North American thing, I grew up in a part of Australia where it would snow every year. And every year some fools in a 4WD would think that because they have superior traction control etc that they don’t need chains. Not that I minded, it was one more day we couldn’t go to school because the road was blocked.
One thing about 4WD and Vans, the people behind you can’t see what’s happening in front of you. Please give us warning signs that something is happening before you slam on the brakes and make that turn without signalling. If I could have seen that taxi cab I could have slowed down a lot earlier and not put a probable bald spot on my tyres. ( I wasn’t that close, I just wasnt turning)
I pit dumbasses who drive SUVs that still feel the need to come to a COMPLETE STOP so they can inch across some railroad tracks.
I wonder how well they off-road, when they can’t even go across train tracks…
-Joe, polo mom
Bah, slowing down for railroad tracks and speed bumps is a sign of weakness.
Well, yeah. That was the point of a statement. For inexperienced drivers, attempting to threshold brake is also more dangerous than just stomping the pedal and letting ABS have its way. Obviously I would not advise tail-out powerslides around corners for the majority of idiots on the road. I would, however, advise that there be fewer idiots on the road. 
Sometimes I miss rear wheel drive. Huge Detroit boats suckin down gas at 9 mph, 15" radials spendin more time goin sideways than actually rollin, bounce one of them off the guardrail and come away with maybe a little scratch. Oh yeah, I know oversteer, I remember it well. But these days I compensate with the joy I get from jackasses driving 60 in an ICE STORM. I love, I lust, I live for passing them, mostly in 4WD trucks and such but stupidity does not discriminate, spun out in the median, smoke rolling out from under their hood (for the love of God, what could you possibly have managed to burn up in there, all you did was slide ?) as my humble horn teaches them the meaning of Doppler Effect in only the way a GEO going 35 can do. Ha Ha, you may have bigger balls, but what good will they do you without a tool… Oh, wait… You Are A TOOL!!!
BTW-My tool count is up to 12 this year, pretty early to be so high.
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Ah, I guess we were due for one this month.
I guess we know what kind of car John drives now 
‘96 Chevy S-10 truck, 5-speed, 30 mpg. Just turned 190k on it. But if you wanna tangle bumpers, I’ve got some heavy iron in the form of a Ford tractor. It’s good for playin’ chicken and stuff. 
Brings back memories of the winter I spent with a '62 Country Squire on bias tires; half-worn summer treads front, new cheapo private-label snows rear.
Oversteer galore at every intersection! The only thing that kept me relatively on the straight-and- narrow between intersections was the fact that a couple of huge blizzards followed by sub-zero temperatures meant that the City only got 1 1/4 lane each direction plowed on arterials and maybe 7/8 of a lane total on the typical side street.
Who says the fiberglass “wood” on those things was useless? If not for all of the sacrificial spars shed over the course of two months, I’d have actually scarred the metal.
Today,even the cheapest “all season” radials have too much grip to provide so much dangerous fun anymore.
Seconded. Given the chance, I’ll always drive on the snow.
I’ve been driving 4xs and SUVs for about 30 years now. The suspension is stiffer, so some people will go slower over bumps.
Off road in an SUV is not fast. It’s not meant to be.
If you don’t know anything about it, you shouldn’t bitch about it.
I live in a Ski Resort community. Breckenridge, Keystone, A- basin, Copper Mountain and Vail is just over the next pass.
We get a bit of snow.
The locals know how to drive in the snow.
The visitors….
Aren’t that bad. At least not as bad as some people would have you think. They are mostly lost. Or driving slow to look at the scenery. So I let them be, and pull them out when they get stuck. This is just another SUV bashing thread that has nothing to do with the drivers, and everything to do with “I don’t like SUV’s, and I don’t want anyone else to like them”.
My dad was almost killed when a teenager who didn’t know what she was doing with her dad’s Lincoln Navigator plowed right into the driver’s side door at full speed a couple months ago.
The moral of the story: if you don’t know how to drive a 5000 lb automobile, then don’t.
We don’t have such things as ice and snow here very often (New Orleans), but we flood often.
I remember a few years ago, we had a heavy rain…several inches per hour for a few hours and every low spot was a foot deep in water on the roads.
There’s one intersection in particular (Stumpf Blvd. and Westbank Expwy. for anyone familiar with the westbank) that gets flooded easily. There’s an offramp off of the Expressway to the service road that puts you right at that intersection.
I came down the offramp in my '98 Mustang (STUPID!!) and realized that I was driving into water that was over a foot deep. I got the car into 2nd gear and kept my foot on the gas and slowly drove until I was through the intersection and onto higher ground. The car suffered no ill effects.
The point of the story
As I was slowly driving through the water, I had to dodge about 5 “SUVs”…at least 2 of them were Jeep Libertys and one was a Toyota 4Runner, all stalled with water up higher than the doorsills.
I’m guessing that the drivers went flying into the water at 35+ and slammed on the brakes when they saw that they were in deep water and let the cars stall.
Really?
What I know is that there is a huge difference between going over some tracks at 65mph, 20mph, and crawling across like you’re toting nitroglycerinem and sleeping babies.
Interestingly enough my Accord can do all three of them. The tracks aren’t that bad…
-Joe
Naaaaa, when the ice is falling and the whole world looks like cold dead memory encased in lucite, I have the utmost respect for those who understand and respect the road. The SUVs and pick-em up trucks that are tooling along quietly about 30 - 40 probably don’t appreciate the uneducated and uniniated masses chugging a Starbucks and chatting away on their Virgin wireless while not realizing that 5500 rpm is a wee bit high to be going 60 mph and a long, cold walk is in their immediate future nearly as much as I do. Sitting on the side of the road with that bovine look on their suprised faces gives those who know better when driving 5000 lbs of plastic and steel a bad name. I’m not real suprised that things are a bit better in your neck of the woods, I’m sure the skiers and sightseers have a little bit more of a clue than others, at least they expect snow and probably know how to handle a good slide better than most, just like being on a gas powered snow board. No, many of the people I see are honestly suprised that, in Indiana, in the winter, there might be a little snow :eek:. Seasonal amnesia kicks in and badda bing, instant jackass in a two and a half ton killing machine. I don’t hate SUV’s, I just think people who buy them should be qualified to drive them, we should all take a test when buying a vehicle in order to qualify for it, but I’m afraid most of the chuckle heads I see spun out would barely qualify for a lil’ red tricycle, let alone one with a bell.
You know, I have no idea if a higher percentage of SUV drivers are idiots. I do have the perception that most of the vehicles I see in the ditch during shitty driving weather are SUVs, but that’s anecdotal as all get out.
I have been far less annoyed with the SUVs of late than I have been with the asshats who want to blow past me so they can weave in and out of traffic… driving a Pontiac Grand Am. Dude, if you’re going to drive like a racecar driver, at least do it in a real fucking car.
I usually resist the urge to demonstrate the ability of the Passat V6 to deliver significant acceleration from a starting speed of 65 MPH.
Usually.
That hurt.
The reading part.
You’re a poet, jailed in a paragraph.
Break out man, it ain’t that hard.
Blue or red? 