progmom
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:01 PM
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Sometimes I wish I drove an SUV. There...I've said it. |
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Like today, for instance. National Weather Service says: Any travel is strongly discouraged. If you leave the safety of being indoors... you are putting your life at risk.
Yet, I had a radio show to do, so I ventured out (against my husbands protestations. He apparently doesn't think that producing a jazz radio show show is as important as I do :P ) My PT Cruiser got me nowhere. I made it about 50 feet, and it would go no further. I had to throw it in reverse to go back home, because it certainly wasn't going forward.
So yeah - one of those big, gas guzzling SUVs would have been really handy today.
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tcfrogs
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:06 PM
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1. You can get a decent fuel mileage SUV |
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Smaller ones with 4x4. The Ford Escape has a hybrid version.
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TheMightyFavog
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:22 PM
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2. Even though I hate being up high with a passion... |
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I could use the extra cargo space for my move back to Stevens Point Tomorrow Morning.
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Taverner
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:22 PM
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Hybrid SUV - gets 45 MPG. Cake and eat it too school.
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cruadin
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:33 PM
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4. Check out a Subaru. I drive a Forester----fairly roomy interior, |
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-05 03:34 PM by cruadin
seats four adults comfortably, full-time AWD, and a decent little four cylinder engine. The fuel economy isn't world shaking (a little over 30 mpg highway / 26 city), but plenty of pep, and you're not married to the gas pump.
<edit> I LOVE driving it in the snow---AWD rocks.
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:39 PM
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You can get a used 1st Gen (through 01) for a good price. If you get an AWD one you can get 22-27+MPG. Even the 2nd Gen CRVs are not bad, but then I would go with an Element.
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:39 PM
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gets 22-27MPG just like they say....
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:41 PM
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7. I had to do some errands after the blizzard last night... |
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And the fact that I had to drive thorugh all the unplowed snow really pissed me off. I got stuck twice. I started fantasizing about myself driving through all that snow in a Hummer H1. Not an H2, but an H1. I started thinking about how sweet it would be.
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:51 PM
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8. The Hybrid SUV's are coming out soon......! |
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Then you can drive one w/out too much guilt. (I think?)
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