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GAS MILAGE
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GAS MILAGE
Minivans perform more like cars than SUVs
Tuesday, August 7, 2001
Articles about gas mileage of automobiles often lump minivans in
with SUVs and light trucks. Actually, most minivans being sold today
get much better mileage than SUVs.
For example, the Chevrolet Suburban SUV is rated at 16 mpg, while
the Chevrolet Venture minivan is rated at ...
 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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An expanding herd.(Editorials)(SUV sales are up 56 percent over five years)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...Bureau confirmed Thursday that sales of SUVs have shot up 56 percent in the past five...to spare. Oregonians registered 374,900 SUVs in 2002, up 98,200 in the five years since...Use Survey noted that the 24.2 million SUVs registered in 2002, the most recent year...
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The trouble with sport utility vehicles.
Magazine article from: Trial
; Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are the motoring phenomenon of the 1990s...enthusiast, or the wheels of the sixties rebel, SUVs now account for 1 of 9 passenger vehicles...like millions of others, thought their SUVs would provide safe transportation. The...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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Attack of the four-wheeled giants.(Life in America)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...for the road called Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). The public is cautioned by the media of the hazard SUVs embody with increasing regularity, particularly...rollover, they are free to do so. However, SUVs are not operated in a void. What of the rights...
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Big Oil Is Giving SUVs a Bum Rap.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal
; SUVs are getting a bum rap. Every time the price of gasoline goes...think I have a good, altruistic reason for buying a Ute, as SUVs are called for short. When I'm not editing this newspaper...personal beliefs until I started researching them. Now I believe SUVs, for the most part, have become the fall guys ...
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Monsters of the driveway: faults aside, SUVs satisfy demand. (Commentary).(sport utility vehicles)(Column)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
; ...reputation. Environmental advocates call SUVs gas-guzzlers. Plaintiffs' attorneys say...tendency to roll over during testing. Calling SUVs unsafe as a class of vehicles would be...his 454-page diatribe, High and Mighty: SUVs -- The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles...
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It's not easy being big.(LABJ forum)(sport-utility vehicle owners surveyed)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
; ...set fire the other week to the biggest SUVs, GM's Hummers, to draw attention to their...Add in the ongoing safety concerns about SUVs and it's enough to take notice. So the...more pollution from the fires than those SUVs they destroyed and could have hurt somebody...
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Big car (glug glug) glut.(Business)(With high gas prices, local dealers find thirsty SUVs, trucks a hard sell)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...demand for those roomy, powerful and thirsty SUVs is plummeting. New-car dealers are having...We have seen the big trucks and bigger SUVs kind of stall as far as sales, said Lisa...and had a slew of late model trucks and SUVs for sale: A 2004 Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab...
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SUV Buyers Not Frightened By Bad Press.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
; ...Firestone tires (standard equipment on many SUVs), and news reports that Ford Motor Co...to rollovers, Angelenos are buying more SUVs than ever. Herbert Boeckmann, owner of...D. Power & Associates indicate that SUVs remain more popular in Southern California...
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Monsters of the driveway: morality should drive vehicle choices. (Commentary).(High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
; ...censorious eye on smoking, fast food and SUVs. Keith Bradsher can tell you all about...too, if you read his High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and...latest salvo in a campaign waged against SUVs by environmental groups and such harbingers...
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Is bigger better? Moving toward a dispassionate view of SUVs.(sports utility vehicles)(R. L. Polk and Company)
Magazine article from: Environment
; ...appears to have a love/hate relationship with SUVs. On the one hand, U.S. SUV sales have increased...OMITTED] To the environmental community, SUVs have become a lightning rod for criticism...aid decisions about the extent to which SUVs deserve the attention and resources of...
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