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> >Yeap, I'm afraid it can be taken for that... Actually when I think
> >about America I picture a big, fat SUV, with tinted windows, proudly
> >showing an oversized stars and stripes flag...
> 
> Well that's wonderful....instead of learning about America from your
> television, why don't you visit America and see how diverse it is,
> unlike Scandinavia......

Apart from the same McDonald's, the same shopping malls, the same
urban sprawl and the same SUVs is very diverse... ;)

Let's see what these guys have to say on the Stupid Unnecessary
Vehicles...

Anna wrote:
A Humvee? Is that one of those outrageously wide, military type
vehicles? If so, what the fuck is up with that? Why on earth would an
average jo-schmo want to drive something so, what's the word I'm
looking
for here? So...big? 
  I don't mean big, as in V12 e-type jag or, a lincoln continental.
I mean big as in taking the SUV to the ridiculous extreme type big.
Can
you ask your vet one day, what motivates her to drive such a thing? 
She sounds like a good vet, and all but, I can't get my head around
average suburbanites driving Isuzu Bighorn's with two-tone, metallic
paint-jobs that never get a splash of mud on them. I'm wondering if
the
Hum-vee thing, is just an extension of that. Still, I'm assuming a
lot.
She may use it to go out in the country, doing housecalls on pets
living
in the back blocks, where roads are washed out regularly, or some such
thing. 
           
Fuzzy replied:
Anna, Anna, Anna, you poor, trusting girl. You really want to believe
that Americans aren't stupid enough to drive something like that just
BECAUSE it is huge and ridiculous, don't you? :) I think that if there
were one word to sum up the vast majority of Americans, that word
would
be 'EXCESS'. 'A 35 foot long SUV that gets 0.5 miles to the gallon?
Sure! That is, just as long as I can pay $50,000 for it! Does it have
a
DVD player?'. 

ouphe adds:
     Anna probably can't even imagine just how bad the "SUV problem"
has
become in the US. Everywhere you go you are surrounded by enormous,
brand-new, flashy SUV's that completely dominate the road. If they're
not sideswiping you or running you off the road into a ditch, then
they're in front of you blocking your view of the traffic
ahead....some
of them even block out the sun.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=flashy+suv&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3560-3D1134C9-138%40storefull-2233.public.lawson.webtv.net&rnum=2