How many? The same amount who also drive Corolla's and similar rice rockets. It ain't the vehicle, my friend, it's the driver.
Have you ever driven a Mercedes ML320 or Acura MDX SUVs? I have, and I have to say that they feel and handle much more better than my Corolla.
true, but bear in mind that they are dearer. true, a good luxury SUV with an efficient engine, efficient engineering, stability control etc. can be very good indeed. but, its expensive. yankee 4wds (and aussie ones for that matter) use old technology and are frequently inferior in a design and engineering sense.
I could care less about the many lies of Freud.
so you have done a doctorate in psycology and proven him wrong?
So in your mind, anyone who drives an SUV or any other V8 engine is a brain-dead neanderthal, and that the only good cars are four-bangers?
no, no. don't twist my words around. sometimes a big 'ol V8 makes a logical choice for towing or carry lotsa people. but many times it isn't. a good car can be a V8 - eg. bmw 5 series. but a good car must be coherent from a design, engineering, safety and dynamics point of view. above all, it must be good value. sorry mate, but most SUVs are dinosaurs. sure, if your lifestyle means that nothing but an SUV will do, get it. but that is like 2% of everyone i know. if there is no absolute need for an SUV why the hell get it?
Nobody needs a shrimpy 4-cylinder, either. God bless Henry Ford for inventing the V8.
ahh yes, the legendary henry ford. exploiter of his workers, benefactor to the nazis. sorry, you seemed the be confused between 'need' and 'want'. true many australians/americans/performance car lovers/SUV buffs don't 'want' a 4cyl. but in reality that is all that is 'needed'
If you can afford the extra money, then you have every right to drive whatever car you want to.
yes, and i have every right to cheat on my wife, the same right you do to buy an SUV. i have every right to become an alcoholic, to smoke myself into lung cancer. but are these things socially and morally responsible? nup.
SUV's are hardly responsible for all the consumption of resources in this world. That is pure bullsnip and you know it, just like your asinine racism towards americans.
true but SUVs do not help. i never said they caused all pollution. but there are so many more fuel efficient, socially responsible choices.
apologies if my comments were 'racist' but either its that or en mAsse penis envy for SUVs usually aren't a logical choice.
I know not all foreigners are not tree huggers who blame all the pollution and global warming on SUV's.
yes exactly, europe is very environmentally conscious in its choice for smaller, more rational vehicles. as is australia (well, not as much but we are getting there).
why is US road deaths per vheicle km travelled 50 % higher than OZ?