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Date:         Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:47:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: was Friday content Volt GM, etc..Now: SUV is really_____.
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I have always called my syncro an SUV............Sport Utility Van.

And I mean it in every sense of the word!

Happy Fryeday.........from a very happy we're not in front of IKE northeast Florida......... .......not our turn in the barrel.

Anthony '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET> wrote: From: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET> Subject: was Friday content Volt GM, etc..Now: SUV is really_____. To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 10:41 AM

I never thought SUV stood for SPORT Utility Vehicle. I always understood it to mean SUBURBAN Utility Vehicle. The Suburbs is where you see most all of them, not doing sports, but usually sucking down petrol going to music lessons or shopping or headed here and there on the freeways..

In the country or in 4wd territory, pickups seem the vehicle of choice..

As an acronym(sp?) "SUV" works pretty well if you think of the "S" as standing for Suburban.. As an aside, it may be that the original SUV was the Chevy Suburban of around 1958...Very like the today larger 'Murikan SUVs, but a bit smaller and certainly quite different from what was being built by anyone else at that time. Kinda like a huge Station Wagon built on a truck chassis and with lots of ground clearance, but simply awful to ride in. I remember riding in one that a pal of my father owned in the '60s, down a long washboard road in Montana to hit a fishing spot they knew...It must have been awful if I remember it still to this day.. Don Hanson


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