>http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html  has some factual data
>regarding SUVs, the ministry of fear, and woosie drivers.
>
>Caught my ire.
>
>Gotta luv them vanagoons.
>
>p

>This is a new idea, and one largely confined to North America. In
>Europe and Japan, people think of a safe car as a nimble car. That's
>why they build cars like the Jetta and the Camry, which are designed
>to carry out the driver's wishes as directly and efficiently as
>possible.

And these are US-market Jettas, Camrys & Boxsters, with seriously
detuned suspensions. Undersprung and especially underdamped.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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