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(...) Mark, will you STOP with these unattributed rumors/hearsay? While there is talk of bringing the Sprinter to the US according to the trade rags, it's for an entirely different market than the Caravan/Town and Country. The Sprinter is a panel (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Actually, I think you have it backwards. The front of the Hog's canopy is sloped steeply from the nose to the top, and the back of the canopy slopes gently from the top of the canopy to the fuselage. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) The name is not changing for 2001. They are introducing a new variant called Avalanche, which has a pick-up truck bed and "tougher" styling, but the Suburban name is staying. GMC has renamed the Suburban the Yukon XL (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) might (...) Since when? The 2000 Chevrolet Suburban is all-new and redesigned (and more fuel efficient). The GMC Suburban is now called the GMC Yukon XL. (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, it is called Yukon XL, for eXtra Large. Yukon is a name that has been used on the short wheelbase Suburban (Tahoe over at Chevy) since 1993. This fall, they will also introduce to new monsters, Denali and Denali XL. (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<snip> (...) <snip> I know a guy at work named Norm. ~Mark (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sure they do... it's just called "Yukon" now because the marketing folks at GM decided "suburban" sounded too "soccer mom-ish" ~M (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, I don't think so. I just find terms like that to be signs of lazy thinking. A cute label gets put on a group by a clever radio commentator or columnist, and I can get some pleasure from that, but then the term get picked up and parroted (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, well, if someone's snickering about your lego collection in class, and everyone joins in, and you shut up and never mention that again - isn't that what I was talking about originally?... Leaving lego, or at least having "dim ages", (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) True, true, that is true, but though this and the supposed peer pressure are very similar, I would not quite call this peer pressure. This is just people being mean and someone adapting so they don't have to put up with it. (...) See above. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) whutza subconscious? i can't seem to find mine anywhere .. :) and if it co-ordinates everything, why do i have a conscious? doesn't it defeat the purpose if you keep in mind that your subconscious is in control? if you keep it in mind, it'd (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well, that's an interesting standpoint. I don't think peer pressure is *only* what causes people to smoke, drink, etc, hell no. I don't think you can deny that when a class full of students snickers at someone's looks, behavior or something else, it (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) X- (...) Not at current. The system is only on the Land Rover Discovery II. It will soon be offered on the X-Series and Land Rover Range Rover and Land Rover Freelander V6. DaimlerChrysler uses a system called ESP, which helps keep the M-Class (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) in (...) Something sounds odd here, unless the situation is actually that the small child may just be grazed by the truck since it is higher off the ground. (...) <snip> (...) Is that system in any of the SUVs owned by the average person? I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, this always makes me laugh! I have very quickly learned that peer pressure does not exist. "Peer pressure" is the excuse used by people who are looking for an easy way out of something. I'll use a stereotypical example: "If you don't do (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't have any fatality rates, but I do know that if a small child is hit by a truck, his chances of survival versus being hit by a car are almost three times greater. I completely forgot the reason, it has to be with the truck taking the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) might (...) Kevin, Why do you say they don't make Suburbans any more? I know they are changing the name for the 2001 models, but they still make them. (URL) if it wasn't for my commute and the fact that they cost in the high 30's I would by (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) true (...) Those and more. Cost of building the roads. True insurance costs (one thing which seems a bit wrong to me is that when the other guy is at fault, insurance covers the cost of the damage, but doesn't do anything to cover the cost of (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) big, (...) One thing I would be curious about is if there is a higher rate of fatality in humongous SUV vs humongous SUV than between say two mid-size cars (I wouldn't be surprised if two sub-compacts in a collision causes more fatalities due (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That is not true. The idea that SUV's (btw, I don't consider Suburbans to be SUV's because they were around and well designed before yuppies destroyed^H^H^H discovered the class) are safe is purely the result of marketing them that way. Just (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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