Well, for the common SUV's, the ones under say $40,000, they're really
the station wagon of our time without the station wagon stigma. One of
my old girlfriends actually thought my SUV was cool! That would NOT
have happend in a station wagon.(Of course, that one was a 4x4...)

It's true that most of the very expensive 4x4's in Texas don't see alot
of offroad action. I wonder why those people don't just get the 2WD
version (when available). I'd be interested to see the statistics on
the number of SUV's that are sold in 2WD configurations in areas like
Texas where there are not mountains and very little snow.

Heck, I drive a 2WD Grand Cherokee and I chose that vehicle because
it's convenient and I like it, no other reason. I don't care if
everyone knows that it never goes off-road. I don't consider myself a
poseur because I have no brush guards, headlight grills, mud tires or
other off-road gear (and I WON'T be ordering the fake mud). It's bone
stock and hauls my boat and all types of sporting gear along with four
to five passengers so it serves my purpose.

It's a whole different ball game in Colorado for example. I had a
friend who moved there from Texas and decided to sell her 2WD Cherokee
to get a 4x4 pickup for the mountain roads in winter. Well, she put it
in the paper and when she told callers that the Jeep was 2WD, they
replied "They make those?"  She drove it back to Texas and left it with
me so I could sell it for her here because it was NOT going to happen
up there!

I really don't get the luxury SUV's. Porsche?! What's the world comin'
to?

Tom

I agree.  The people who buy these like them because they are 'cute', not
because
they are a smart purchase.  It is a fad.. I have tried to talk my
stepdaughter out of it
because they are (1) inherently not too safe, (2) not too economical, and
(3) not too
roomy.

She thinks they are 'cute'.

OK by me.

Thanks Nate, that is a good lame one!  :-)