I hate SUV's Options

[ashes1850]

I just wanted to put it out there that I really hate SUV's and the gas that they suck up. Why would a person want to buy a car that gets like 10 mpg?

over in china they have a new car thats a cross between a van and a mini cooper and it gets 60mpg. They have laws about the dimensions and about minimum gas mileage. Why are we not following their lead? And the gov't wastes all their money and our money on technology to build a hybrid SUV which really does not exist as the electricity shuts off at about 40mph. So anyone who drives major roads uses up gas anyway. Unl;ess a family have like six children you don't need a big car. God forbid that children have to share the back of a sedan. Just getting those feelings off my chest.

[AMCMoe]

I had a newer Grand Cherokee that got about 15-16mpg. Really nice comfortable ride with plenty of features, but then I decided the same thing. I had no real reason to have an SUV with a V8 engine in it as a daily driver, so I sold it and got a little civic for a daily driver, that gets 3 times the gas mileage. I do have a gas guzzling wrangler for 'fun' and for safer winter driving when it snows. But I barely put any miles on it, so far about 4,000 this year including a 1,000 mile drive for vacation.

Oh yeah and to forkee- there is a dually truck I've seen around here a few times, LOWERED with some paint job. Is that not the stupidest thing imaginable?