The SUV Is Dethroned 1234
Wired's Autopia blog documents what we all knew was coming: rising gas prices have killed off the SUV. Auto industry watchers had predicted that the gas guzzlers in the "light truck" category would lose the ascendancy by 2010; no one expected their reign to end in a month, in the spring of 2008. Toyota, GM, Ford, and now Nissan have announced they will scale back truck and SUV production and ramp up that of smaller passenger cars. Of course there will always be a market for this class of vehicle, but its days on the top of the sales charts are done. "'All of our previous assumptions on the full-size pickup truck segment are off the table,' Bob Carter, Toyota division sales chief said last week during a conference call with reporters. Translation — we have no idea how low they'll go."
i'll still drive my hummer (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SUVs aren't dead (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i'll still drive my hummer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And may I be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, wait, wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SUVs were always mostly a waste (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is how economics is supposed to work! (Score:3, Funny)
Cheers!
Westbake == Twitter sock-puppet. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uncle Sam is too fat. You need to trim it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good riddance! (Score:4, Funny)
What I'm trying to say is: GP doesn't have anything to do with you, and everything to do with people who get SUVs and don't do "SUV stuff."
Re:Cable TV (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good riddance! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What if gas prices drop again? (Score:3, Funny)
With oil being priced in US Dollars the only thing saving Europe at this time is the weak dollar, if the dollar was at the strength it was a few years ago then prices would be even worse.
Just be glad you are not in Sweden, it is even higher.
Re:Good riddance! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good riddance! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good riddance! (Score:5, Funny)
Unless you are a spacecraft engineer, and then a meter is the same as a foot !!
Re:Good riddance! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good riddance! (Score:5, Funny)
By your logic you might as well call a van a poorly-designed subcompact.
Re:Good riddance! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good riddance! SUV's arent all bad (Score:2, Funny)
Customer: WOW! I am interested in one of those big powerful giant size SUV's that you have lined up, out there.
Cute lady salesperson: Oh, really? Are you really interested in buying one?
Customer: Well, maybe, can we go for a test drive?
Cute lady salesperson: Sure!
{ while on the test drive }
Customer: Gee, I like this, but with gas the way it is, how can you convince me to buy this rolling tribute to oil companies?
I will leave the rest to your imagination, however from a strict probability assessment, I think the customer has a better chance of some adult fun in this encounter, than say
So, like I said, SUV's have their uses.
Re:Good riddance! (Score:4, Funny)
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Oil Bubble (Score:3, Funny)
Personally, I expect the price for gas to hover in the $2.50 to $3.25 range for the next decade. Of course that was the price when I purchased my hybrid, so I don't expect the light truck category to have the popularity it did have, but sales will pick up again (unfortunately).
Re:Good riddance! (Score:2, Funny)
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