Re: Car sizes (was Re: So what now do we do?)

I think the little bitty cars they make and turn people loose in are
deathtraps.

Saw an Accord come to pieces and spew child seats across the road in a one
car accident.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Blake Nelson" <bnelson301@yahoo.com>
To: "William Hamilton" <whamilton51@comcast.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Car sizes (was Re: So what now do we do?)

> So, I am not the only one who chuckles at Accords,
> Tauruses (Tauri?) and Camrys being referred to as
> full-sized cars when they would have been mid sized 15
> years ago? (Leaving aside the humungous "boats" like
> the old Buick Electra, etc. from 25 years ago --
> thought I needed a GM reference in there)
>
> --- William Hamilton <whamilton51@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Although I work for General Motors, what I'm about
> > to say is not
> > endorsed by GM. My theory is that the popularity of
> > SUV's is due
> > directly to the efforts on the part of the auto
> > companies to downsize
> > their passenger cars. Americans are used to big
> > cars, so when the
> > manufacturers began to downsize their vehicles,
> > people who wanted
> > "adult-sized cars" switched to trucks.
> >
> > On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 12:39 PM, George
> > Murphy wrote:
> >
> > > Jay Willingham wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Telling people in a technology driven society to
> > back off on using
> > >> that
> > >> technology is simply not going to work. Ask Gray
> > Davis.
> > >
> > > There's a difference between telling people to
> > stop driving cars and
> > > asking them
> > > to use cars more prudently & efficiently. It
> > would not be in any
> > > serious sense a
> > > backing off of technology to get people to stop
> > driving SUVs.
> > >
> > > Shalom,
> > > George
> >
> >
> > > Bill Hamilton Rochester, MI
> > 248 652 4148
> >
> >
>
>
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Received on Thu Dec 4 23:47:10 2003