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In rec.autos.driving Mike Locke <lockem@scrserv.com> wrote:

: I have to disagree here.
: I've got two extremely different vehicles: 2000 Dodge RAM 2500 4x4 and 1999
: Mazda Protege'.  The roof of the Protege' does not come up to the bottom of

Hey, I put my requisate disclaimer that it could just be due to my
Pathfinder's design :). But in my Pathfinder, the last two windows are
practically useless cause I really can't tell if there is a car there or
not.

This also has a lot to do with cars. There are cars with blind spots too..
blind spots do have a lot to do with the design of the vehicle itself.

: In the last couple of years auto makers have all decided to go with "swoopy"
: designs with the rear of the car much higher than the front.  Net result:
: turn your head to look to the side in one of these cars and all you see is
: the rear passenger's seat.  The view out the rear view mirror is not much
: better.

Ah, never had to deal with this. My first car was an old 82 Saab that had
excellent visibility around the car, and the last was a Porsche where it
was pretty easy alos to see if there was a car next to me.

: The truck's mirrors are several times larger than the car's mirrors.  A can
: also confirm that most of the time I can spot obstacles much sooner in the

Agreed here. It's easier to back my Pathfinder up because of the large
side mirrors (the Saab was easy to back up because of power mirrors, easy
to adjuts them at a whim).

: truck than in the car.  The truck has big wheels and loads of ground
: clearance and can simply roll over things that would damage or compromise
: control of the car.  Of course, the truck can probably be rolled and the car

I still wouldn't want to roll over those things that would damage other
cars at high speeds. 

: On the highway, the car gets 34mpg, the truck gets 20mpg, which is something
: else that responsible folks need to factor in too when choosing what and
: when to drive.

Heh, my Pathfinder from worst estimates (haven't checked my individual car
yet) gets maybe 2 miles per gallon less than my last car. Of course it
irks me that it gets worse (that's one of my biggest complaints about the
Porsche). Actually seeing as the estimatse I have seen were from 4wd
automatics and mine is a 2wd gearshift I'm hoping that mine has better
than those. I'm an econut that lvoes cars and ends up driving the worst
ones for the environment :(.

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