Well, John and others may not like these types of vehicles, BUT BMW does sell a lot of them and the X3; and the vehicle that has kept Porsche profitable these last few years is the Cayenne. Now Ferrari is talking of producing a type of Crossover/SUV thing (saw a pix on another site recently).
Like them or not, see the utility of them or not; they seem to be here to stay (at least until gas/diesel goes back to over $1.50/L).
I couldn't even bring myself to check the link of the Ferrari SUV. Tell me it's a joke, please.
Yes, BMW sells a ton of those things. Every morning the gym parking lot is filled with them, driven almost exclusively by leathery, fake-tanned, underweight women with giant puffed-up lips and fake boobs. God only knows why they think they need one of those overweight resource wasters, but heaven forbid they don't have the "right" something.
The article on The Truth about Cars was dead on. We need gas taxes and we need them soon. Canada and the US should be implementing a phased-in tax that will raise the price of gasoline to $1.50-$1.75 within the next five years. The ex-trophy-wife crowd might not care, but you never know. A friend of mine is a Bay Street lawyer and has watched his income go from $800K to $90K in the last 12 months thanks to the market crash and rapid economic decompression. He might start to care about the price of gas.
