I don't get it - what have any of these things got to do with what people buy? As far as I can tell, it's all about perceptions of "power and prestige," which...
... Ah yes, but I'm afraid, Isaac, you are a nut. A perfectly sensible nut, to be sure, but a nut. You hit it on the head with the "perceptions of power and...
Most people would like to have the economy of a small vehicle, but like the size of a large vehicle for family needs. We are looking at getting a smaller...
...but since a family will likely have two cars anyway, the comparison is invalid. The original statement didn't say anything about single seaters, either, it...
... of small cars that will seat five. And plenty of ultra-safe and fairly un-menacing-to-other-drivers minivans that can seat eight, that are easy to get into...
There is a lot of misinformations here that let people believe they are safer in a bigger vehicle. A car manufacturer makes less money with a small car than a...
Just to be contrary, I'd say that most people would prefer just to pay less for gas so that they can drive their inefficient vehicles inexpensively, and...
AHA -- But gas is now at $1.80 a gallon. That's still actually dirt cheap, in the scheme of things, regardless of people's whining. But if it keeps going and...
As to misinformation, people who own small cars and trucks give out misinformation because they don't know or don't want to know the average fuel mileage over...
... I check the gas mileage at every fillup. It rarely varies from 30mpg over a tank. Average speed over a tank is typically about 28mph (automatically...
He's referring to hauling with a truck vs if you used your small economy car as a light utility vehicle. I'd like to have a small truck for this, but I don't...
No doubt. But what if they are correctly educated about safety? I saw a crash the other day. A lady was in a big SUV. The SUV looked intact, the radiator was...
We are all partial and want to believe we got the best vehicle. I am like everyone on that. In my opinion, the misinformation comes from automakers that just...
It has been proven time and time again that the midsize Honda Accord is just as safe, if not more than most SUVs. The Accord was actually just one example....
Smaller cars do have an advantage over taller and more ungainly vans. SUV's and trucks in that they are less prone to roll-over and lateral slippage (I speak...
... Based on Isaac's sources, then, at least for vehicle/solid object collisions, trucks and SUVs are NOT safer for their own drivers and occupants in a crash,...
I dunno if it's worth mentioning, but none of the sources I found online specifically compared SUVs to cars in regard to safety when crashing into an immovable...
I apologize for flying off the handle. It was both inappropriate and unnecessary. Certainly, at least, the language was. Nonetheless, I am outraged by the...
The safety stats for the 2 door explorer are much worse than for the 4 door. By any objective standard thee is very little difference in rollover stability or...
... want ... when ... The history books are littered with the forgotten names of car companies that tried to sell people anything other than what the customers...
I remember the effort from Ford to sell safer vehicles, the reaction of people what that if they are trying to make their vehicles safer, then they must be...
I feel the same, I think the only solution is an increase in gas price, and it will have to be forced on the American economy, while others are already adapted...
... I don't know, the industry theory is that "Safety doesn't sell". A very small group of people will pay more for a safer car. Sure, if you can have a safer...
I won't be posting any technical drawings or information, but I do plan to post the drawings I've made for the fiberglass-shell bodystyle within the next week...
or so it might seem, based solely on posts in this group... then again, postings to this group take only a tiny fraction of the time each member spends doing...
This is just a thought I had a while ago, and never had time or the vehicle available to test it. Last year I upgraded my S10 with a heated (3-wire) O2 sensor,...
Here's what I found out: There are a number of ways of controlling the heating of a heated O2 sensor, some pretty simple, some not. * Some systems have a just...
