"dr_jeff" <utz@msu.edu> wrote in message
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> Sharx35 wrote:
>>
>> "Ed White" <ce.white3@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:856ff4de-f170-4411-a2a0-f034529c661c@p36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Oct 19, 11:12 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...@e86.GTS> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:34:30 -0400, C. E. White wrote:
>>>> >> I'm not disagreeing with your mom's choice but why does she need an
>>>> >> SUV?? What were her needs from a technical perspective?
>>>>
>>>> > First of all, the Highlnader is not an SUV. You might get away with
>>>> > calling it a "Crossover
>>>>
>>>> That's what it's marketed as. Two or 4WD, but around here they run
>>>> 5-1 in
>>>> favor of AWD.
>>>
>>> On the Toyota webpage it is in the SUV section, but they don't have a
>>> crossover section.
>>>
>>> At the dealers we looked at they had plenty of 2WD or AWD (seemed to
>>> be more 2WD than AWD). My Mother lives in a relatively flat area, it
>>> snows no more than a few days a year, and she has no need to go on bad
>>> dirt roads. Her Freestyle was AWD, but I don't think she knew or cared
>>> and I saw no reason to pay extra for AWD for the new Highlander. If
>>> things are bad enough that 4WD is required, she still has my Dad's '99
>>> 4WD Ranger available.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>> Having the Ranger, why does she need to have TWO vehicles?
>
> It's not her Ranger. It's her husband's. Apparently, she needs her own
> car.

Actually it is my Mother's (my Father passed away a few years back). But as
I said in another post, it is old and beat up and not really the sort of
vehicle a little old lady uses to haul her friends to their bridge games.

Ed