> I expect to be heavily flamed so... asbestos suit ON...
>

Yes, Phil, I would argue that I REALLY NEED such a truck to get to work in the morning.  Why, just the other day, I was consumed by road rage, and rammed my truck into a hapless passerby who happened to pull out in front of me and cut me off.  So much for HIS car!  I had nary a scratch. It is my god given right to have a vehicle that can plow anything off the road in front of it, be it rain, sleet, snow, or schoolbus.  And if it only gets 3 gallons to the mile, so what? That just shows how rich I am, proving I am important, and proving Americans are the most important people anywhere. So what if everybody thinks we SUV drivers are a**holes? When I am driving over the top of some 50MPG tin lizzie, how much mileage do they get then?  Huh?  Take THAT you tinny little beetley bugs!

<sarcasm off> 



-- Lawrence Lile, P.E.
Who rode his bike to work today, with a PIC powered high intensity LED light built into the helmet, thinking about servo driven steering.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Pemberton [mailto:philpem@dsl.pipex.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:01 AM
> To: piclist@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT] Don't you BUY no ugly truck - 2005 Studebaker XUV
> 
> In message <057301c4dcea$60b4dbe0$d201a8c0@y2k>
>           Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > "Functional" design carried to its ludicrous conclusion.
> > It's interesting that the smaller diesel makes more power and torque,
> and at
> > lower revs (torque at MUCH lower revs).
> 
> 1) It's damn ugly
> 2) It's far too big (IMO). My money's on people buying these things just
> to
>    do the daily school run. Yuck. (yes, there are a lot of people round
> here
>    that own 4x4s (or what I suppose Americans would call SUVs), nearly all
> of
>    them are used by parents to take their kids to school, even though the
>    local school is within walking distance).
>    I've no objections to people owning 4x4s, as long as no other vehicle
> is
>    suitable - I realise agricultural sites would have a legitimate use for
>    a 4x4, but someone who just wants to take the kids to school... Ngh...
> 3) I guess that thing will probably do, what, 10mpg tops? Ugh. What a
>    waste...
> 
> I expect to be heavily flamed so... asbestos suit ON...
> 
> Later.
> --
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