Is $5/gallon enough to make you sell your SUV?

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Mr Nate
I live in on a back road that gets really snowy in New England, so it's not really an option. I'd like to get an Outback.

This is sometyhing most reports fail to take into account. A very small percentage of the population actually has need of a truck or SUV. Some people live in the middle of nowhere and need a 4WD vehicle. Others have boats/campers or need one for business.

fixed......I would guess that 95% of SUV owners do not 'need' them.

 

[captains]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
nope

if i had the money i would buy an H1

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: theknight571
If gas were $5 a gallon...who would buy it? (the SUV)

who can afford to sell at a huge loss?

You guys still love your SUVs?
:roll:

:Q

😀

personally i like my 35+mpg 🙂

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: PimpJuice

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Mr Nate
I live in on a back road that gets really snowy in New England, so it's not really an option. I'd like to get an Outback.

This is sometyhing most reports fail to take into account. A very small percentage of the population actually has need of a truck or SUV. Some people live in the middle of nowhere and need a 4WD vehicle. Others have boats/campers or need one for business.

fixed......I would guess that 95% of SUV owners do not 'need' them.

In what part of the country? Flordia? Yeah, that is probably right. Wisconsin? Hell no.

 

[imported_Mike]

I still like my SUV. I don't need it for anything it was designed for other than to putz me around. My next car will be a sedan though, but probably a v6 or v8 with only slightly better MPG.

 

[laurenlex]

It's too late to sell your SUV, unless you give it away. I'll keep mine for when I NEED it, and drive my 4 banger wagon everywhere else.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: PimpJuice

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Mr Nate
I live in on a back road that gets really snowy in New England, so it's not really an option. I'd like to get an Outback.

This is sometyhing most reports fail to take into account. A very small percentage of the population actually has need of a truck or SUV. Some people live in the middle of nowhere and need a 4WD vehicle. Others have boats/campers or need one for business.

fixed......I would guess that 95% of SUV owners do not 'need' them.

In what part of the country? Flordia? Yeah, that is probably right. Wisconsin? Hell no.

I thought 95% was generous...as in 95% of the SUVs that exist.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
It is already happening. The big 3 aren't selling as many pickups and SUVs but brands like Honda and Toyota are having banner sales months around here.

Say goodbye to the big gas guzzling SUV! This is just another nail in the coffin! 😛

those are people who would have been buying new cars/trucks about this time anyway. they're not really accelerated purchasers. overall purchases, by volume, are down, which isn't what you expect when people accelerate their purchases. of course, the volume we're comparing to is the crazy-nuts volume seen with all those finance promotions in 2002 and 2003.

 

[Spike]

Not gonna sell ours, we love the explorer and find it very useful. Of course, it only gets driven ~50 miles a week so we fill it up every month or so. During the week my wife uses it for her 1.5 mile commute to the park and ride (huge hill so walking up it is a real pain). Other than that it is only used for camping, driving in the snow, and costco trips 🙂

My little mazda gets most of the driving and it gets something like 29/35 so that works for me.

-spike

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
I guess you never took ecnomics, otherwise you'd know that demand is mostly constant for necessities such as gasoline. Supply will be the key determining cost factor I think

If you ever took economics beyond the very basic level, you'll realize that the rules of supply and demand as you think of them only apply to a true competition (100+ companies) and a non-panicked market. We have neither.

Back to the real topic. A few years ago when I bought my current vehicle I forsaw gas prices going up. Not at this intense rate. But I expected them to rise. So I don't have an SUV.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
nope

!

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
You'd probably get almost nothing for your SUV if gas was $5. Between that and GM giving new trucks away there just wouldn't be a lot of demand for them.

I'd buy one on the cheap. I sold mine because it was too hard to park, but there are times I really miss it.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
It is already happening. The big 3 aren't selling as many pickups and SUVs but brands like Honda and Toyota are having banner sales months around here.

Say goodbye to the big gas guzzling SUV! This is just another nail in the coffin! 😛

As someone who bought an SUV before the craze started, GOOD.

J/k... sorta. 😀

 

[FoBoT]

i don't own a SUV

our big mini-van isn't worth enough to sell

we just won't drive it as much as soon as we get a new sedan

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: PimpJuice

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Mr Nate
I live in on a back road that gets really snowy in New England, so it's not really an option. I'd like to get an Outback.

This is sometyhing most reports fail to take into account. A very small percentage of the population actually has need of a truck or SUV. Some people live in the middle of nowhere and need a 4WD vehicle. Others have boats/campers or need one for business.

fixed......I would guess that 95% of SUV owners do not 'need' them.

In what part of the country? Flordia? Yeah, that is probably right. Wisconsin? Hell no.

I thought 95% was generous...as in 95% of the SUVs that exist.

I live in suburbia and I'm pretty sure the percentage of people who don't need their SUVs are high, but you just don't know... for example I bought it for when I went to college... in Buffalo. What's that really do to this estimate of people who NEED them ? I'm someone who you'd consider NO LONGER needs it... but that's not true either... I love it for my Home Depot trips and the snowy months of the year. Why am I judging the guy next door - I don't know if he's ever lived in Buffalo. Or Wisconsin.

Regardless, NEED has not been a concern for people in this country... look at how many sports cars are sold...

 

[Ilmater]

I was riding my bike home from work a few days ago, and I was waiting at a major intersection for a light. As I'm sitting there, an SUV turns right, right in front of me. Then another. Then another. I'm not sure why I noticed this as usually I wouldn't pay any attention, but I noticed they were all being driven by middle-aged women. I turn to my left, and another is turning, again driven by a middle-aged woman. I finally looked fully behind me, and there were FIVE MORE, all the GIGANTIC SUVs (Escalades, Excursions, etc.), not little Explorers, and all being driven by middle-aged women.

It made me chuckle, and it made me want to beat them all unmercifully.

 

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: PimpJuice

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Mr Nate
I live in on a back road that gets really snowy in New England, so it's not really an option. I'd like to get an Outback.

This is sometyhing most reports fail to take into account. A very small percentage of the population actually has need of a truck or SUV. Some people live in the middle of nowhere and need a 4WD vehicle. Others have boats/campers or need one for business.

fixed......I would guess that 95% of SUV owners do not 'need' them.

In what part of the country? Flordia? Yeah, that is probably right. Wisconsin? Hell no.

I thought 95% was generous...as in 95% of the SUVs that exist.

Im a generous guy 🙂 Unlike you mr. CheapArse!

just playin

 

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
I was riding my bike home from work a few days ago, and I was waiting at a major intersection for a light. As I'm sitting there, an SUV turns right, right in front of me. Then another. Then another. I'm not sure why I noticed this as usually I wouldn't pay any attention, but I noticed they were all being driven by middle-aged women. I turn to my left, and another is turning, again driven by a middle-aged woman. I finally looked fully behind me, and there were FIVE MORE, all the GIGANTIC SUVs (Escalades, Excursions, etc.), not little Explorers, and all being driven by middle-aged women.

It made me chuckle, and it made me want to beat them all unmercifully.

I notice that too......nothing like being cut off by an SUV and then driving past it only to find thats its being driven by this little woman talking on the phone. Pet peeve.

Im not an SUV hater btw......just some people shouldnt own them, just the like the moron I saw popping a wheelie on his bike on the highway during the morning work commute.

 

[conjur]

No.

Then again, I don't have one. 😉

 

[MisfitsFiend]

nope!

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Originally posted by: Son of a N00b
nope.....

but please stop with the GD gas threads...you people are the reason it does go up to 5$'s

I say keep it going 🙂 GM's already losing around $1200 every time they sell a car. Right now Chrysler's the only US manufacturer turning a profit (around $180 a car as of a couple weeks ago) while the Japanese manufacturers are making a killing.

Let the gas prices soar, and let the US manufacturers of oversized pigmobiles die as they deserve to.

Jason

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Atomicus
I guess you never took ecnomics, otherwise you'd know that demand is mostly constant for necessities such as gasoline. Supply will be the key determining cost factor I think

If you ever took economics beyond the very basic level, you'll realize that the rules of supply and demand as you think of them only apply to a true competition (100+ companies) and a non-panicked market. We have neither.

Back to the real topic. A few years ago when I bought my current vehicle I forsaw gas prices going up. Not at this intense rate. But I expected them to rise. So I don't have an SUV.

True competition doesn't require 100+ companies, don't be absurd. Granted, there's very *little* competition in the oil market, mostly thanks to OPEC. Cartels work to *circumvent* competition and *thwart* Capitalism.

Jason

 

[Rubycon]

Just increase tax rates for liquor and tobacco by 10,000% and use the revenue to build more refineries.