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

[Dick Spellman]

Hi Ronny:

Could not agree more.  In today's fiasco, I had been stopped for darn 
near a minute with many cars having stopped behind and along side my car 
and the SUV's.  Can't imagine what the guy was doing moments before.  In 
any case the extra feet I had between him and me just gave him the 
ability to reach greater velocity before impacting my MB.

Dick

Ronny Geenen wrote:

> Sorry to hear about your accident.

> Coming from Europe and living in California, I think that to many 

> people here

> are busy with many other things while driving their car.

> They are not active drivers. I keep a lot more distance between me and 

> the person

> in front of me.

> I do not trust most of the drivers.

>  

> Ronny

>

>     ----- Original Message -----

>     *From:* Dick Spellman <mailto:spell.yy at verizon.net>

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>     *Sent:* Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:59 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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