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Re: [OM] SUV's and Zuiko's (A WAY OT and long, but maybe informative r

Subject: Re: [OM] SUV's and Zuiko's (A WAY OT and long, but maybe informative rant)
From: Henrik Dahl <hdahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 02:41:33 +0100
Who cares. As long as your car gets you from point A to point B. Really, people, there's a world dying around us and we should be out capturing it, not discussing transports - how to get there.

Henrik Dahl


I asked:
In a message dated 11/9/2001 Henrik Dahl writes:

<< To a poor foreigner,  please spell out what SUV stands for. It's
something with cars, right? Vans? I just want to know if it's
something I should hemorrhag (love that word) for. >>

Ummm... Well, it is a US Automaker's achronym for "Sports Utility
Vehicle" coined to sell trucks to consumers who would otherwise normally
buy "cars" because they don't want "trucks."




Mike Veglia

Uh, is that "sport" as in greasy receding hair, loud shirt, gold neck chain over-the-hill large car motoring kind of sport? :-)
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California


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