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[Car Buyer's Notebook.com] Hyundai Brings 2,000 Sweet New Jobs Home to Alabama: It’s fitting that while it took Hyundai three years to build it’s new $1.1 billion Montgomery manufacturing plant, it took over two years to assemble the workforce that will build the 300,000 Sonata sedans and Santa Fe SUVs the plant can produce at full production.

[Frenchieb.blogspot.com] Francesca's Liberal Wingnut Corner: SUVs: The most selfish ...: Or those who drive with the equivalent grace of a "goat in a crystal house" (a Mexican bit of imagery from Diego) because they think that their enormous vehicle will protect them from the rest of us and that we will simply get out of their way when they come barrelling down our street. This is for the moms with their one kid who think that SUVs are keeping them safe as they drive the five miles on smooth asphalt to the ballet recital.

 [Marketingshift.com] Biggest SUV Navistar International 7300 CXT Dwarfs All SUVs: It ¢s a pickup truck. From International. Which makes it much more than a pickuptruck. It ¢s an International®7300 CXT – born out of the proven International 7300 severe service truck used by professionals for the most rugged applications.

[Suvs.autoblog.com] Autoweek tallies “America’s Best” - SUVs - suvs.autoblog.com _: Autoweek has compiled its annual “America’s Best” list, a group of U.S-market vehicles selected by its readers as the leaders in their respective classes. I’ll save you the trouble: best sports car: Chevrolet Corvette; best luxury car: Audi A8L; best sedan: Chrysler 300C; best first car: Honda Civic; best coupe: Infiniti G35; best SUV: VW Touareg; best economy car: Mazda 3; best truck: Ford F-150; best people-movin’ machine: Honda Odyssey. Extremely compact reviews are available for each vehicle. The only omission I can spot is “best alternative fuel vehicle,” which I think we can all agree is Willie Nelson’s biodiesel-powered Mercedes.

 [Detnews.com] Large SUVs lose luster, cost Big 3 - 1/16/05: The typical full-size SUV now takes more than three months to sell -- up from a little more than a month in 2002 -- despite carrying more than $4,000 in rebates. That may explain why full-size SUVs -- the star of the North American International Auto Shows in years past -- were virtually ignored this year as automakers showed off a host of smaller crossover vehicles, fuel-sipping hybrids and boxy small cars.

[Rattlebrain.com] Apegrrl's Blog: Random Rants: The safety thing is a combination of misconception and myth.  Sure, while your kids are in an SUV, they may be slightly safer on the road than they would have been in a compact car (though even that’s disputable).  But there’s no question that the presence of so many SUVs on America’s roads increases the threat to your kids the rest of the time, not only from their increased risk of injury if they’re pedestrians, bicyclists or in smaller cars in accidents with an SUV, but also because of the indisputable air-quality, climate, and political repercussions of having so many oversized vehicles out there wasting fossil fuels.  What’s worse, these negative impacts are felt by the rest of us, those that have responsibly chosen not to drive SUVs.  We’re also victims of the space that selfish SUV drivers take up, in parking lots and on crowded freeways.  How dare they do that to everyone else?  Why do we let them get away with being so clearly inconsiderate?

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