"Hall, Phillip" wrote:
> <snip>My wife likes 4 door sedans. They are front drivers
Not all of them, hell, not even most of them.
>
> and no matter how much you spend on one, they are throw away cars. Nobody
> wants a front driver with 150,000 plus miles on it. They gravitate to the
> junk yard very quickly after this many miles.
WADR, Phillip, but that's horses#*t - my wife's '84 Toyota Corolla went nearly
a quarter
of a million miles virtually trouble-free (OK, I did replace the clutch, once,
at about
210,000 miles) and the only reason we moved on from there was that as the
family grew we
needed more room (VW Passat Wagon - front-driver with excellent road-handling,
best value
on the market in it's size range)
> <snip>
>
> Phil
> SEROC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snyler [mailto:marc@animalfirm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:25 AM
> To: Roadster List
> Subject: Light trucks (OT)
>
> For the first time, over 50% of the new vehicles sold in the US were
> light trucks as opposed to cars (Pickups, minivans, SUVs) Do over 50% of
> the population really need a truck-based vehicle, or are some of us being
> sold a bill of goods. I see a lot of longbed-crew-cab-duallie super duty
> 4x4 behemoths that have never seen a puddle, much less a load of gravel.
> I guess they hold a lot of groceries. I can get over 10 bags of
> groceries in the roadster when the top is up, and it's not going to roll
> if I swerve to avoid that puddle.
> Some folks need a big hauler/towing vehicle, but many, I suspect are
> just pretending to be cowboys (and cowgirls)
>
> -Marc T.
> '70 1600
> '93 Escort wagon (all you really *need *for a daily driver, will carry
> engine blocks, trannies)
> '88 Dodge 318 pickup (shortbed) Drive only when needed (trips to dump,
> towing)
> '65 Datsun 320 When this is restored, bye-bye Dodge :^)
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