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Trucks only have to handle like, well, trucks. Cars are built with what is called unit-body construction. To be light enough to meet fuel standards and safe enough to meet safety standards, they have expensive and elaborately engineered steel skeletons, with built-in crumple zones to absorb the impact of a crash.
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obviously written by a dolt. it's 'unibody'. and SUV's have crumple zones, too. as well as rubber mounted motors designed to drop out the bottom in severe frontal impacts. My Jeep is a 'uniframe' construction, which combines the cage with frame rails....
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"Sport-utility owners tend to be more like 'I wonder how people view me,' and are more willing to trade off flexibility or functionality to get that."
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duh. what is more flexible or functional than an SUV? that's the whole point of them.
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According to Bradsher, internal industry market research concluded that S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills.
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suck my dick. i can't read any more of that drivel.
here's the deal: and SUV is a STATION WAGON. 4wheel drive is safer in wet weather, snow, and off road. the height of the vehicle and the driver position keep you above most side impacts with beer cans like the echo and the jetta.
so, after much bashing of suv's and how much more nimble a boxster is to drive ( jinx made me read that part) the author plops this in there:
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Is the Boxster safer than the TrailBlazer? It depends on who's behind the wheel.
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well, no shit. now go buy a trash can in your boxster.
or put a car seat in it, or drive to work in the snow, blah blah blah.
the pole up this author's ass has a pole up its ass.