19th Jan 2007, 12:37
What stereotyping? You say that if we buy an SUV we don't care about our families and then say what stereotyping?! You can say SUV's are inherently more dangerous, but it doesn't mean anything because you haven't given a shred of proof to back it up! Therefore your 'facts' mean nothing, they're just opinion, so why not state them as such? You trying to convince us that a Civic safer in an accident then a Suburban is bogus. And you have no facts to back that up, because it isn't true. I'm completely confident that if some street racing rice-burner Civic goes out of control and hits my Chevy SUV, I'll be better off than him.
19th Jan 2007, 10:42
HMMMM, maybe you need to visit the 85% of the country between New York and Los Angeles before assuming that everyone could just as well be driving a Yaris to their IT job in some office building.
You love to quote statistics, but don't understand them. Statistics are a certain kind of fact, but they tell you what CAN BE LIKELY to happen for a specific set of circumstances, NOT what WILL happen in every circumstance. Furthermore, statistics tell you more about the driver than the vehicle. As you say, research the vehicle before buying---and buy the vehicle that suits your needs. Perhaps your needs are met by a Toyota Prius; my needs require a full-size 4x4.