Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Matthew S. Whiting wrote:
> Bill Putney wrote:
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>> Kevin wrote:
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>>>>> Move to Atlanta, you'll see lots of both doing that.
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>>> Amen, Atlanta is full of these hoodlums.
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>> Or as someone submitted to the Atlanta Tourism Board a few years ago
>> when they ran a contest for a good toursim slogan: "Atlanta: An island
>> of culture floating in a sea of rednecks." Needless to say - that was
>> not selected as the winning slogan. 8^)
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> Because the culture part wasn't true! :-)
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> Matt
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Atlanta is done. It is a slimy as any large city in the country.Most of
the producers have fled to the burbs, leaving the poor and gangs.
> Bill Putney wrote:
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>> Kevin wrote:
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>>>>> Move to Atlanta, you'll see lots of both doing that.
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>>> Amen, Atlanta is full of these hoodlums.
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>> Or as someone submitted to the Atlanta Tourism Board a few years ago
>> when they ran a contest for a good toursim slogan: "Atlanta: An island
>> of culture floating in a sea of rednecks." Needless to say - that was
>> not selected as the winning slogan. 8^)
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> Because the culture part wasn't true! :-)
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> Matt
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Atlanta is done. It is a slimy as any large city in the country.Most of
the producers have fled to the burbs, leaving the poor and gangs.
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Lloyd Parker wrote:
> I seem to remember a C/D road test of a full-size Chevy pickup that got below
> 10 mpg, as did the CR test of the Excursion.
CR's overall mileage for the Excursion was 10 mpg. The 150 mile trip mileage was
12. This was a V-10 Gas model. The diesel would do much better.
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Lloyd Parker wrote:
> I seem to remember a C/D road test of a full-size Chevy pickup that got below
> 10 mpg, as did the CR test of the Excursion.
CR's overall mileage for the Excursion was 10 mpg. The 150 mile trip mileage was
12. This was a V-10 Gas model. The diesel would do much better.
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Lloyd Parker wrote:
> I seem to remember a C/D road test of a full-size Chevy pickup that got below
> 10 mpg, as did the CR test of the Excursion.
CR's overall mileage for the Excursion was 10 mpg. The 150 mile trip mileage was
12. This was a V-10 Gas model. The diesel would do much better.
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Marc wrote:
> The full sized trucks and SUVs that are three-quarter ton or smaller all
> have city mileage from 10-15 and highway mileage from 15-19. The one-tons
> (trucks only, I know of now SUVs with that title) and some of the "heavy
> duty" 3/4 ton ones are of sufficient GVWR that they do not get listed with
> the EPA as passenger vehicles and are worse for mileage, but they aren't as
> easy to look up for all of them in one place.
The heavy duty Suburban, Excursion, and H2 fall into the heavy duty category and
don't ahve mileage listings.
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Marc wrote:
> The full sized trucks and SUVs that are three-quarter ton or smaller all
> have city mileage from 10-15 and highway mileage from 15-19. The one-tons
> (trucks only, I know of now SUVs with that title) and some of the "heavy
> duty" 3/4 ton ones are of sufficient GVWR that they do not get listed with
> the EPA as passenger vehicles and are worse for mileage, but they aren't as
> easy to look up for all of them in one place.
The heavy duty Suburban, Excursion, and H2 fall into the heavy duty category and
don't ahve mileage listings.
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Marc wrote:
> The full sized trucks and SUVs that are three-quarter ton or smaller all
> have city mileage from 10-15 and highway mileage from 15-19. The one-tons
> (trucks only, I know of now SUVs with that title) and some of the "heavy
> duty" 3/4 ton ones are of sufficient GVWR that they do not get listed with
> the EPA as passenger vehicles and are worse for mileage, but they aren't as
> easy to look up for all of them in one place.
The heavy duty Suburban, Excursion, and H2 fall into the heavy duty category and
don't ahve mileage listings.
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Nate Nagel wrote:
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> An SUV performing the same unsafe maneuver is far more hazardous to
> surrounding traffic. Surely even you can see that?
No, I can't see it. This is the sort of drivel the anti-SUV crowd routinely repeats.
Continulaly repeating an opinion does not make it a fact. PROVE IT!
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Nate Nagel wrote:
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> An SUV performing the same unsafe maneuver is far more hazardous to
> surrounding traffic. Surely even you can see that?
No, I can't see it. This is the sort of drivel the anti-SUV crowd routinely repeats.
Continulaly repeating an opinion does not make it a fact. PROVE IT!
Ed
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Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers
Nate Nagel wrote:
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> An SUV performing the same unsafe maneuver is far more hazardous to
> surrounding traffic. Surely even you can see that?
No, I can't see it. This is the sort of drivel the anti-SUV crowd routinely repeats.
Continulaly repeating an opinion does not make it a fact. PROVE IT!
Ed