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"...One could argue--from an ecological point of view--that the automobile is one of the lousiest things mankind has ever invented. Let's face it: No one thing has ruined more cities, killed more people, caused more pollution, and caused us to be more sedentary than the automobile. Just being responsible for strip malls should itself be enough to get the car on most fecal rosters. If it weren't for the lucrative career we've had fixing them, automobiles would have no redeeming qualities whatsoever."
"It's amusing to note the existence of an industry-sponsored group called Tread Lightly, which urges sport-utility owners to be careful when driving their vehicles off public roads. It makes good public relations (and a vivid contrast to the industry's own ads showing the vehicles in the middle of creek beds) but the advice is quite unnecessary. A CarPoint survey reports that fewer than 10 percent of all sport-utility vehicles ever leave the road, mainly because their owners are afraid of scratching them."
- Paul Roberts, in an article entitled, "Bad Sports: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the SUV," from the April, 2001 edition of Harpers Magazine.
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"...Inevitably, as the gap widens between what SUVs actually do and what they merely look capable of doing, vehicles themselves have become overt props. As much special-effects technicians as engineers, designers brazenly appropriate symbols of ruggedness and utility from the movies, cigarette and beer commercials, and even the toy industry. The result is SUVs that look less like passenger vehicles and more like the vessels from Star Wars or Terminator or Alien--boxy, bulging objects covered with antennas and bolts and hatches. At one point, designers at Nissan proposed releasing the Pathfinder pre-scratched and dented." |
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