cars again: why suvs suck

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We haven't had a cars thread here for a while, but I needed someplace to stow this New Yorker piece on SUVs.

tw will love it, except that it kinda debunks the Firestone tire problems as being entirely trivial compared to the problems brought on merely by driving SUVs.

http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html

Halfway down the page is an explanation of how Ford F-series drivers kill more other drivers on the road than any other vehicle. About six times as many, per capita, than Toyota Avalon and VW Jetta drivers.

A few years back an F-150 driver ran into my car. I wasn't in it at the time... it was *parked*, at a mall, and the dickwad didn't have the energy to turn his wheel hard enough to squeeze into the spot next to me. I hit him back for $3000 insurance worth of bodywork at the most expensive custom place in town, and STILL I have a rattle that will live for the life of the car.