[fabsroman]

Mil Dot,

I like your third paragraph and agree completely with it. What is funny is that my fiance has never driven a truck or SUV before, but thinks she will be able to drive an Expedition without problem. Meanwhile, she is scared to death to drive my F-350 crew cab. Granted, my truck is a little bigger than the Expedition, but it comes a lot closer to replicating the Expedition than her Hyundai Sonata.

As far as preferring my truck over my car, I really don't. I like the fact that almost nobody cuts me off in traffic and that almost everybody respects my turn signal. When I am driving my Taurus, people cut in front of me all the time and when I put my turn signal on people try to close down the gap on me. A couple of months ago, I put my left turn signal on to change to the middle lane. Well, some rice burner with a couple of punks in it came up the left lane and were trying to zip into the spot I wanted. They looked over at me, I looked over at them, and then I proceeded to move into the space because they backed off. My truck also has better acceleration than my Taurus, but then so does my bicycle.

Essentially, ride height doesn't really matter to me. I like trucks and SUV's because of the off road capability, which my Taurus has done plenty of. I also like them because of the amount of passenger and cargo space that they offer. I don't think I could get a station wagon that hauls as many people or as much cargo as an Excursion, but then again, the fiance will not let me get an Excusion because she is scared to drive it and she doesn't want to drive a loud diesel engine.


Thanks for the physics lessons guys. Now I remember why I hated that class in high school.