Stop Making SUV's Dipshits

[MegaRock]

The crying begins.

GM has to lay off 30,000 - 50,000 plants because they are 'losing market share'. Today Ford announces a similar move is possible - 20.000 - 50,000 more jots. 20 or so plants might close

Wonder why this is happening.

Today in related news Ford annouced sales of it's Explorer have plummeted 53% in the past year and may be lower than the first year they were introduced.

Looking over car lots SUV's are dominating these lots. People are selling them left and right in the local newspapers. You can't get rid of these things quick enough.

Wonder why the two are happening at the same time?

Could it be that initially these vehicles were touted to be the safest things on the road until people started flipping them left and right? Could it have anyting to do with Ford buying shitty tires from Firestone to make a quick buck off the people who thought they would be safer in one? Could it be because of the higher costs of insurance because even in the most minor of accidents these behemoths of the road total any regular car they come in contact with therefore the insurance industry is paying alot of money for these imbeciles to continue operating their tank?

It's all of the above but the most notable is what I said when they first came out - give it a few years and people will realize that they are massive gas hogs and generators of pollution. They are annoying as hell to the other drivers on the road. They have become today's station wagon but with way worse gas mileage. These are the scourge of vechicles in America and people are starting to wisen up and unload them in record numbers and no one wants to buy one. Anyone who owns one that don't already have it up for sale will be stuck with them.

And this is what has been causing the collapse of Ford and GM. They hinged their profits on the SUV and even when sales started slipping refused to realize it and continued to mass produce them until their assembly plant lots are stocked full of a vehicle no sensible person wants anymore.

In the same time fraome the Chinese and Japanese have focused on fuel efficent vehicles and normal everyday cars. They continue to make them safer and more powerful while increasing gas mileage. They are kicking the American car manufacturing industry dead square in the ass and we all know it.

All because of the SUV. One should hope that in the future that they learn not to focus so much on one type of vehicle next time - if there is a next time.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I don't necessarily hate SUVs, but I do hate the dumbasses that think they need a Ford Excursion to go to the store for a loaf of bread. While I agree that SUVs really don't have a place in the market or on the road, I don't think that GM's problem is SUVs as much as it is their workforce. But that's already been discussed.

At any rate, I wouldn't mind seeing the American auto manufacturers start making less SUVs and start making all the rest of their vehicles better and less expensive.

[ElChevelle]

More two seaters, less 10 seaters!

[eheiney]

I don't hate SUVs as much as I hate the person behind the wheel of one.

[Mattress]

the only problem I have with SUVs is my inability to see around/over/through them when I'm driving behind one.

I like to be able to see what the guy in front of the guy in front of me is doing.

[deeder7001]

large SUVs are the ones that suck(suburban, excursion, trailblazer...). i like the smaller SUVs because they don't use as much gas and are more practical.

[Wolfgang]

... as practical as a sedan and an estate.

[ASD5A]

suv.....

its as usefull as a pile of steaming shit.
fortunally suvs are quite uncommon here (germany)

[MegaRock]

Americans are the most common buyers of the SUV because there are so many who could care less about the environment, how much gas they use or how unsafe they are to all the other drivers on the road because of their size, because their bumpers are too high and the headlights normally blind all the other drivers on the road unless you sit that high too.

[Mattress]

many of the same arguments could be said for pickups...

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

In a lot of cases, yes. But pickup trucks actually are useful. At work, we couldn't get anything done if we didn't have our crew trucks. My first job, I worked for private residential contractors (home remodelling, additions, etc)... gotta have a pickup truck if you want to actually get work done. A couple weeks ago, I saw a Ford Super Duty pickup truck hauling a big gooseneck trailer with a small excavator and a bulldozer on it. Yes, an excavator AND a bulldozer. And not to forget, I've used my pickup truck to move all kinds of things that would've been impossible with any other kind of vehicle. Couches, computer desks, large recliners, big boxes full of clothes, console televisions, exercise equipment, home theater centers, and any number of other big things.

But I do agree. There are too many people that have pickup trucks just to have pickup trucks. Just today, I saw an old woman (probably in her late 70s or so) driving a crew cab long-bed Chevrolet 2500 HD. Now, what the hell do you think she's going to do with that?

[ElChevelle]

Originally posted by Mattress
many of the same arguments could be said for pickups...

Bullshit.

I use a pickup to haul things like 4X8 sheets of plywood, ATV's or your aunt's ass home after a hard night of partying.

[Wolfgang]

I saw a behemoth of a vehicle apparently called a Chevrolet Z71 today. It had New York plates on it (yes, in London). It was not too far off the size of a hummer.

I've also seen people here in London with nice shiny enormous Dodge Rams with one of those hard covers on the back. Obviously the drivers have small penises and will never haul anything. I hate them more than the yuppies in Range Rovers and such things.

[MegaRock]

I know, it's kinda like 70 year old men driving brand new 'vettes. And then drive 25 in a 50. If your member is that small GO GET AN IMPLANT. Most of the people I see in Hummers around here are dainty little women with a cell phone permenantly planted to their forehead. Chances are they will NEVER go anywhere near offroad (unless offroad means driving over the median at the mall to get a parking place - which I did see today) but outside of that they will never use it for sport or utility - probably because it might cause harm to the FOUR DVD PLAYERS this thing had mounted inside of it.

These people need to be taken out, shot and skinned.

[shakey_snake]

This summer I was at an Akron Aeros game (AA Baseball) and when we got out after the game parked acrossed the street from the stadium at a bar was a big-ass pearly tan Hummer H2 with the biggest chrome rims that I've ever seen.

It looked a lot like this one:

who's that getting in in that pic?
Just some speculation.

[rockouthippie]

Can't you just drive a car like a normal human?.

Did you have to give the soccer witch the keys to the death star?.