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"Hachiroku ????" <..
, Coyoteboy wrote:[color=blue]
>[color=green]
>> Wickeddoll® mumbled incoherently to the rest of alt.autos.toyota:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> A little snow, a lot of morons:
>>>
>>> [url]http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=253508[/url]
>>>
>>> There were lots of assorted idjits on our roads, but the SUV/minivan
>>> drivers
>>> were the most dangerous and arrogant. It was all I could do to keep
>>> from being slammed by those jerks!
>>>
>>> Natalie
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> "Wicked little doll, you are not human; wicked little doll, you have no
>>> soul." (David Byrne, 1997)[/color]
>>
>> A) There was only one pic with one truck stuck? Hardly becomes an SUV
>> story does it?[/color][/color]

But it was the *SUV/van drivers* that nearly got me killed, as well as
themselves. *sniff* You didn't read my comments. That hurts. Seriously,
the trucks were just as stupid.

and[color=blue][color=green]
>> B) IME I'd rather be on the road with lots of SUVs than lots of small FWD
>> cars with cack tyres. From experience, when driven at sensible speeds,
>> any
>> 4wd SUV has better qualities in snow than a cheap light little FWD car.
>> SO
>> basically its purely down to the driver being an idiot which occurs in
>> any
>> car. (Coyoteboy)[/color]
>[/color]

Tell him what he won, Johnny![color=blue]
>
> The key word here is 'sensible'. In reality, driving anything sensibly is
> the ideal. My Corolla was horrible in the snow, so 'sensible' meant
> driving the wife's Honda when the going got bad.[/color]

I have no choice. We don't have an AWD vehicle currently, so you take your
chances.[color=blue]
>
> Problem is, a LOT os SUV drivers think they are invincible, and drive
> faster than conditions warrant. The AWD gives them overconfidence, which
> makes actual conditions easy to forget about.[/color]

EXACTLY[color=blue]
>
> The only time I ever drove SUVs was when I borrowed one from where I was
> working, because road conditions were too bad for the car I had. But of
> course, since they weren't MINE and wanted to get them back in one piece,
> sensibility was the standard. Never wound up in the ditch!
>[/color]

Therein lies the logic

Natalie