[W126 Coupe] 300SE meets Sucky Utility Vehicle (SUV)

[Bill Reford]

Hear Hear!!!

The same crap goes on up here in Canada. The Ministry of Transport has a 
proposal on the table that will subject an average SUV to a $ 4000.00 
additional tax (gas guzzling tax) when purchased new. (Good) and a payment 
(kickback) to any person who invests in a hybrid (any make)  I admire your 
patience, a pity to have one of your classics wounded by a piece of shit and 
piloted by an idiot..

Bill

1985 500SEC Euro
1984 300D
1988 420SEL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Spellman" <spell.yy at verizon.net>
To: "Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists" <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: [W126 Coupe] 300SE meets Sucky Utility Vehicle (SUV)



> Well for those of you that do not know me, I have a particular rant that 

> simply stated suggests that this government and US automakers conspired to 

> permit the sale of SUV's at a time when they realized they could no longer 

> compete with a sedan or other family vehicle made in Japan.  It started 

> with the Dodge/Plymouth Caravan which was in my opinion a reasonable 

> compromise and natural evolution of the family station wagon.  The caravan 

> even made a reasonable utility vehicle once absent the rear seats.  Gas 

> mileage, visibility and safety were good as well.

>

> But, today we have nothing but gas guzzling SUV's on the roadways where 

> the drivers are forever thinking they are invincible and do more stupid 

> SUV tricks than any other motorists on the road.  100's in accidents from 

> a single snow event mostly SUV's (snow rare this winter in Btown).

>

> Now for today's case in point.  Today while stopped at a RED light (a long 

> wait I might add) in the left turn lane to enter a MASS highway the SUV 

> operator in front of me decides he needs to move to the lanes to my right 

> for local traffic and not the highway.  Without so much as a glance in his 

> OBSTRUCTED rear view mirror, he throws the sucky utility vehicle in 

> reverse and slams into the front of my 300SE Euro sedan.

>

> I was polite enough given the adrenalin rush from the stupid event (that's 

> why they call them accidents I suppose) but, had he been driving a sedan 

> or other similar passenger vehicle his glance in the rear view ( I won't 

> bother to comment on not checking his side view mirrors) would have given 

> him the visual clue that a line of cars was in fact behind him!

>

> Anyway, rental car tomorrow for the rest of my weeks business, then the 

> insurance hassle etc.  Just another day in Boston where driving is always 

> an experience.

>

> By the way, last winter it was a city plow truck that drove into the trunk 

> of my other MB sedan at yet another red light where traffic was clearly 

> stopped.  There's no escaping the madness!

>

> Dick

> rant off and a glass of merlot in hand.  By the way I don't care if you 

> own an SUV, it's all a part of the conspiracy and marketing hype that says 

> everyone's gotta have one, not much you can do about it.  If I had been in 

> a lean, efficient SMART Brabus car it would have been trashed by the SUV 

> and I might not be writing this piece at all!  So, no way I'm getting a 

> smaller car where the roads are nothing but SUV's.

>

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