RE: Gas Prices Protest Letter (SUV related)

["Brian Honnold" <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>]

Anyone that rolls an SUV shouldn't be driving anything at all.  Let's not
deteriorate this into a pissing contest about driving abilities.

You name one vehicle other than a delivery truck or Semi that can cause
serious damage to the Suburban?  cmon, give it a try.  The thing isn't built
like a tank, I'll give you that, but it's up high enough that most impacts
do fortunetely go through the ladder frame.

The Audi you refer to won't seat the 5 of us and all our stuff for even a
weekend trip, let alone tow a competition ski boat or get to the trailhead
at the Peter Grubb Hut at Castle Peak

As for camping, lets hook up and hike!  I live for the day when my kids are
old enough to do the Tuoloumne Meadows down to Half Dome or trek through the
Appalachians with me.

Brian H







> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Harry R Glesner III
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:31 PM
> To: bhonnold@pac-cap.com
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: Gas Prices Protest Letter (SUV related)
>
>
> Brian:
>
> >But, it's safe for my wife and kids to be in
>
>   Your going to hate this but that Suburban is about as UNSAFE as
> you can get. I
> get amazingly tired of this drivel about being in a steel womb.
> Just last year a
> bunch of kids were killed (and managed to kill most of another
> family) on I470
> in a Suburban. Last week there was a quite graphic picture of a
> Dodge Ram crew
> cab with a crushed top and a dead driver. The vehicle doesn't
> have the roll over
> protection of you Passat, it doesn't have to meet the same crash
> protection
> tests of a passenger vehicle. The only way the "vehicle" has any
> "greater"
> protection is on the same plane as the ladder frame, and then all
> the forces are
> transmitted straight into the passengers. The SUV movement is a waste of
> resources, and lives. The only thing a truck is good for is
> towing a race car.
> That's it! Give your wife the Passat, or buy her a nice quattro
> is your looking
> for a safe all-wheel drive.
>   Also give up the car camping...use your feet...you'll see more
> of the country
> and harm it less.
>
> Rick Glesner
> Littleton, Colorado
> '90q20v
> '87 924S
> '82 911SC
>
>
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