I love the Cannonball Run-esque outtakes.

Every American loves the underdog. I mean, take a look at what we build our hotrods out of. If we really are honest with ourselves and our performance goals, we’d get a beater and build a go kart with an LSX in the middle of it and some nasty slicks.

I have yet to see that…

I don’t know. Car guys don’t intentionally fuck up their handling, destroy tires, and generally pick fashion over function.

Your argument is valid and cogent with one exception: Artificially low speed limits.

Fuck speed cameras.

See point number 2.

Meh. I like small government in general (yes, I get the irony)

Simplify the tax code, pick up the accountants by the feet and beat the attorneys to death with the accountants, and let me telecommute 100% of the time instead of 20%.

Meh. if I could find a 6 speed (I can’t, I’ve looked) and keep the rpm down at highway speed, I’d probably get 35. Yes the AWD adds a couple hundred pounds to the car. I think curb weight is 3300.

If anyone knows a six speed AWD tranny that will bolt on behind a duratec, I’m all ears. ...and sockets.

...and my dumb…

No. My life is worth more than his need to sit up tall and feel big because he has a small penis.

And I don’t give a shit about his subjective experience. Tax the fuck out of these unsafe gas hogs consuming more than their fair share. Nobody cares about your (in the larger sense, not you personally) tiny little weinie.

Fuel Tax might be the answer, it certainly worked to promote small cars in the 70s. The problem with that is that it hits the poor, the most fragile group, inordinately hard.

No. I get 30 mpg average. ...and I ddn’t have to waste all the resources necessary to build a new truck.
Further, I never said shit about revoking. What I said was put a premium on driving those wasteful sunzabitches. Tax the shit out of them.

Yes agreed. I was wrong. Aftermarket siping.

Funny thing is that the price of C/SUVs will plummet and the poors will only be able to afford them.

Not a bit. I’m a little north of Dallas, and it’s not as bad as it used to be, but then you could have half dozen Ferraris sitting in the driveway, but if you didn’t have a suburban, you were poor.

There have been a couple of times this year I was happy to have my AWD, but those are few and far between here.

Now we are getting somewhere. Revoke that shit. Your want to sit up high is outweighed by my need to have clean air and not get bulldozed by a ball-less husband or an insecure soccer mom.

Clearly not a work truck.

...nd what if that huge, body on frame, relatively lightly sprung and under braked SUV could plausibly have just driven around an accident? Clearly the driver wasn’t in control or there wouldn’t’ have been an accident.

Yes, I know, distracted driving, ballaban, ballaban, ballaban. (It looks like blah, blah, blah) I’n…

First, no they do not. There is more in heaven and earth that is dreamt of in your philosophy.
1. Bigger and heavier, not to mention taller, make braking and steering more of a problem. Heavy tall trucks do not handle as well as a lower, lighter car with the same suspension geometry and settings.
2. Simply making that…

...as did you. I’ve been al over the world and lived all over the country. I chose to come home to Texas partly because of the weather. My statement stands.

So polar moment of inertia doesn’t work in your universe?

Maybe.

I don’t know, you just did.