dog friendly small SUV or light truck - Page 3

Shelly

No.  One is facing the back and the other is sideways and accessable by the rear doors.    The nice thing with some of these crossovers, is that you don't have to take apart the crate to get it in.  The crates slide in assembled.

Once gas prices will reach 4 dollars a gallon (this summer supposedly), we will all think twice about certain vehicles. I would drive a regular mid-size car or compact SUV and buy a dog trailer like WT-Thermo. This trailer is lightweight enough to be pulled with smaller cars.

Chris

I still want the gas-guzzling, eco-unfriendly hog. LOL

I don't go off the patch much, but when I do I want to hog as much pavement as possible, take everything but the kitchen sink (maybe that too, and the bath tub)  and dominate every other passenger vehicle in sight.

I am WOMAN. I drive BIG TRUCK. I have good insurance in case someone wants to fight over the last 4 "compact vehicle only" parking spaces. I mean to win every time. Ha ha ha ha ha

Note to self: Call Dr. to refill Premarin script first thing tomorrow morning.

SS

BLitzen - if you are US Citizen please buy American Made Vehicle .................... You mean like a Toyota made in Texas or Indiana?  Seriously for trucks at least they are pretty much all made in America of parts made all over the world.  I doubt one is really more "american" than another. 

I'd rather see people buy vehicles made by GM or Ford, Nancy, but if they absolutely MUST buy a "foreign" vehicle, then those  made here are the better choices in my mind. Americans are earning a living as a result and they spend their money here although the profits most likely go back to Japan. Yeah, I know some parts are made overseas, my husband works for Harley and they import some bike parts from Asia. I'm sure that most automobiles and certainly trucks that are assembled here contain parts that have not been manufactured in America, very, very much to my regret. I just don't think we can afford to keep buying vehicles, clothing, footwear, texiles, foodstuffs etc that are manufactured and grown in foreign countries thus taking away jobs from our own citizens.  I live in an agricultural  county in PA, little industry and most income is generated by the Gettysburg tourist trade and local fruit orchards.  Some of these fruit grower are trying to sell their orchards to developers because supermarket chains are importing apples, peaches, pears and so forth from Asia.  If things keep going the way they are,  and if the prediction are correct, in the next 10 years a few million jobs will be lost in the US due to foreign competition and that really bothers me a lot.

Blitzen, I do agree with you there..............I called the big three seeing if waiting a year would get me the truck I wanted and they were not at all interested.  I wanted safety features not available on American Brand Trucks.  The American companies sell trucks in Europe that we cannot get here because they don't fit their marketing strategy.  I gave them every chance to get my business and threw my hands up in despair. 

I am fed up with American business.  Our jobs are all going oversees and the weatlh keeps getting concnertranted more and more in the hands of the CEOs and the American Worker suffers.  Meanwhile, children and prison or slave labor makes our goods for us.  How messed up is that.?  It is not like the rest of the world is benefiting from this economy - Only the wealthy once again. 

I used to shop long and hard ti find clothes with the ILGW label.  I have a Car Coat that is 44 years old!  And some clothes that are over 20.  Try to find that now.   Went to buy some honey and could not find anything that did not have honey from Argentina.  Don't get me going - I am all about make it here buy it here and a decentralized economy eg "Small is Beautiful, EF Schumaker"  But when it comes to making CEOs rich, I don't really care where they come from.  And when it comes to making a big purchase I can't afford to settle for something less because an American company will not produce something with safety features unless forced to.

I agee, Nancy. I may be dreaming, but I am counting on the election to bring about some changes that will benefit middle class America. Maybe I'm naive, but I have to believe in something positive.  The irony is that these  greedy CEO's cannot survive in the manner to which they are accustomed without us drones, AKA  middle class America. However, I seriously doubt  we would have any problems getting by without them.

Hurry January 20, 2008; it can't come soon enough for me .

Shoot, I meant January 20, 2009!!!

Shelley, I'm with you on wanting plenty of steel between me and the pavement. I drive a big, gas guzzlin' Ford 350 Crew cab dually truck. With 140K miles on it, it's never needed more than O.L.F..............

Oh, that's not quite true. It needed repairs after it slid on black ice in '03 and landed upside down in a snow bank. Trapped inside, my dog and I were rescued and pulled out.......unharmed, by another motorist who just happened to recognize that we were not rightside up. The truck? Totalled. I bought it back from the insurance company for $1500 and had it fixed. Not a bad day since. Do I cringe at the fuel pumps? You bet I do. But......I'm alive. My dog is alive. And I credit that big hulk of metal for saving us.

I drove a Ford E350 Econoline, Class C RV with a 454 to training for years. Put 160K on the thing. It got 6 mpg no matter what: towing, hills, fast, slow... Never felt safer. Of course gas was only $1.25 or so per gal. I'd think twice about driving that beast full time nowadays for sure, but 15 mpg I can live with to feel confident my dogs and I had good visibility, good off-road/foul weather capability, (you should see our driveway) and a very good chance of surviving an accident.

Someone tried to calculate what that 140K cost me once. I made them STOP. LOL

SS