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Subject:	Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:37:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Herzberg writes: > I see nothing wrong SUVs. People are just complaining because they are so big, Well, I find the idea that people are buying them, in part, because they are safer in collisions due to their mammoth size, to be a *little* disturbing. It's like an arms race, safety via momentum. Of course the more massive, better-armored vehicle will win in a collision. But the more and more massive the vehicles get, the more risky it gets for the econo-boxes. So, I want an armored SUB (Suburban Uhssaut Vehicle) too, just to keep up in the arms race, heh heh. -- Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"

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		Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: SUVs (was Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?)
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
I came to much the same conclusion. Normally I avoid driving in New York, but, my SO brought a little subcompact, and there we were, outgunned on the mean streets. So we got a Jeep Cherokee. It's the smallest SUV that is still able to carry 4 tall (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
(...) I see nothing wrong SUVs. People are just complaining because they are so big, and they use poor gas mileage as a "side excuse" when the fact is the average gas mileage of an SUV is going up and the biggest gas-guzzlers in the country are all (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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