SUVs: Deadly Yet Irresistible

SUVs: Deadly Yet Irresistible
Imagine driving along in the desert, ahead all that’s in sight is tumbleweeds being tossed in the wind. You look to your left and spot a massive lion racing, struggling to keep up with you. One step on the gas and soon that lion is dissolved in the world of sand kicked up by the tires. Or, it’s a family outing, the children are singing happily in the backseat. All of a sudden a giant grizzly bear emerges from the side of the road. The road morphs into an obstacle course, you swerve trying to prevent from smashing into the trees that come centimeters away from the roof of your vehicle. The bank of water ahead poses as a threat but with ease you drive straight through it. The grizzly bear is now nothing but a sight in the rearview mirror. Do these images sound a little familiar? Maybe its because they fit the plot to almost every sports utility vehicle commercial ever aired on television. It’s always the big shiny red jeep driving through a pav...