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

[Shayegan, Richard]

Exactly my point: you should move to here. With the home foreclosure
rate (it's gotten to almost 20%), you can pick up houses dirt cheap too.
Coming from DC, I know what kind of thing you're talking about
(well...in DC the roads are at least planned ok, but the people are like
the people in Boston). Every time I go home I think to myself "sheesh
this place is awful," and every time I go back to NC I think to myself
"Wow, people are actually paying attention! And yielding the left lane!"
Here's a way to test the people in your area. Leave your high beams on.
If every person flashes you to tell you to turn them off, you're in an
area where they actually care about driving. If not a single person
flashes you over the course of the entire night, you are either
somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, Northeast, or West coast.


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

> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com 

> [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com] On Behalf Of Dick Spellman

> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:03 PM

> To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists

> Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] 300SE meets Sucky Utility Vehicle (SUV)

> 

> Sorry Richard you have an unfair advantage.  You have planned 

> well designed properly paved roads.  You have folk that 

> remain friendly and courteous at all times.  Big difference.

> 

> Dick

> 

> Shayegan, Richard wrote:

> > Two things. Small cars can be made fairly safe actually. 

> Look at the 

> > test MB did where they ran a S-Class into a Smart. Smart 

> did quite well.

> >

> > Second, come move to North Carolina where people, even 

> those in SUVs, 

> > actually care about driving.

> >

> >   

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

> >> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com

> >> [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com] On Behalf Of Dick Spellman

> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:00 PM

> >> To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists

> >> 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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