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November 17th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Yesterday there was a Volvo and a Ford Explorer parked outside my office window. The Volvo was bigger than the Exporer. Blew me away.
November 17th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
They call it an SUV (and jump through whatever beaurocratic hoops to define it as a truck instead of a car) so that the CAFE standards that apply are those of trucks, not cars. Basically, it’s why the station wagon died off in the first place. And why, instead of big honkin’ cars that got 18-20mpg you had big honkin’ trucks that got 10-15mpg. Yay for unintended consequences!
November 17th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
The Subrau Outback is clasified as a SUV for CAFE standards or somesuch. It’s because they can’t make those huge fullside cars anymore without selling a million Ford Festias to make up for it. So the manufactures keep trying to make cars that people will like, so they game the system.
Enviromental wackos get all ticked off over the *cough* loopholes *cough*, but the manufactures are stringently trying to comply with the law.
Kinda reminds me of evil black rifles and the cosmetic laws that were passed against them.
Anyway, I’m sure all those huge station wagons are really tallied as SUVs.
November 18th, 2006 at 4:34 am
How about those Mazda 3s? Micro wagons. So ghey! Way popular around these parts. What does that say about the men folk around here? Gay cooties!
November 19th, 2006 at 1:55 am
My Envirowacker 8000 is a Blazer. It’s no bigger than the chevy station wagon I had when the kids were little…not as big, even.