# I'm totally in love...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 6, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283 "2000-09-06T21:54:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@FarrisGoldstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarrisGoldstein)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/1 "2000-09-06T21:54:59Z")
With the new Chevy Avalanche… It’s on tour, and I’ll get to see it at the Texas State Fair next month. WOOHOO! I’m gettin’ one as soon as they come out.
[http://www.chevrolet.com/avalance](http://www.chevrolet.com/avalance)
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/2 "2000-09-06T21:57:05Z")
Don’t you mean the Avalance?
[http://www.chevrolet.com/avalanche/](http://www.chevrolet.com/avalanche/)
What’s to be in love with, though? It looks like a SUV and a pickup were crossbred.
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### Author:  [@FarrisGoldstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarrisGoldstein)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/3 "2000-09-06T22:03:18Z")
Oops! It’s Avalanche, I just mistyped the URL.
Well, maybe it ain’t your thing, but I’m in a band and have a lot of gear - but I don’t want a truck because I like the passenger room, because I also do a lot of things with friends and family. So, this vehicle is perfect for me.
Ford tried it with the Explorer Sport Trak… Totally sucked. Not enough room for anything in the back. Plus, it’s a Ford.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/4 "2000-09-06T22:08:59Z")
I don’t care about the car, but there is no way in hell I’d ever buy a Chevy now just because of their stupid wanna-be-star-trek-style website. That is so annoying.
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/5 "2000-09-06T22:36:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by FarrisGoldstein \*
> **Well, maybe it ain’t your thing, but I’m in a band and have a lot of gear - but I don’t want a truck because I like the passenger room, because I also do a lot of things with friends and family. So, this vehicle is perfect for me.**
Yeah, I’m in a band, too. I can (and have) carried all my band’s equipment, save the drummer’s (who fit it all in his VW Jetta!), **in my VW Golf**.
What’s the milage on these things. Ghastly, I presume?
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### Author:  [@Clark73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark73)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/6 "2000-09-06T22:41:00Z")
It reminds me of the Nissan Frontier, 4 door version.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/7 "2000-09-06T22:46:50Z")
SUV’s all look so much a like these days who can tell them apart if it weren’t for those huge letters annoucing their names on the backs?
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/8 "2000-09-06T23:17:07Z")
Holy Moses. What IS that thing? A car? Just be glad you have so many open spaces left in the US…
In the Netherlands, in 1999, a grand total of six Ford Explorers were sold. Then again, try parking a ship like THAT in Amsterdam. Impossible.
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### Author:  [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/9 "2000-09-07T13:21:02Z")
Don’t personally care for it, but I can see where it would have it’s uses. Too bad it’s a GM. 😃
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### Author:  [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/10 "2000-09-07T13:22:12Z")
I’d carry that last post to Great Debates, but I’m scared to go in there.
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### Author:  [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/11 "2000-09-07T14:57:33Z")
I’m not impressed.
I own an F150 4x4 because a truck is right for me.
If I want and Excursion or Suburban I’ll get one of those.
But this hybrid is bizarre – not for me.
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-totally-in-love/32283/12 "2000-09-07T15:22:04Z")
Oh my God!!! KILL IT… KILL IT!!!