Americans and SUVs: Gas Guzzling in America
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What does “SUV” stand for? SUV stands for “Sport Utility Vehicle,” and this is one of the American dreams to own a SUV. David Goeway, author of “Careful, You May Run Out of Planet”, introduces the idea of big cars like, SUVs, “…, the vehicle that combines the most potent mix of American mythologies is the sport utility vehicle(SUV),…(p 106).”
The fascination with American frontier, Goeway goes on with idea of how SUV are accepted in American society and how their names are related to American culture, and what are the reason SUV manufactures are rising up high as far as the issue of profit concerns.
Now, we can categorize the modern SUV into two different points of views, first we can talk about the benefits of the SUVs and second in contrast we have to mention the negative sides of the them too, since the are made by humans there is always a place for error or negative out comes.
The notion that “…, the modern SUV represents a preeminent symbol of American popular culture (p 106).” SUV are very safe to drive around cities and specially on the High-ways, and they are more liable to single vehicle accidents. The only or better to say the most common reason for SUVs to have higher liability compare to cars is the size of them. All through out the centuries size was a big issue for humans and SUVs are most likely are satisfying the need of hunger for a wider and bigger vehicles.
The most obvious ironies are perhaps best noticed in the ability of SUVs to get off the road and show any problem/s for the drives, “ …, these vehicles are designed for rugged, off the road motoring,….(p 106).” Having the power to mostly go or take your vehicle off the road, where regular vehicles aren’t able to go, is one of the unshared and unique options for SUVs.
Another most distinct ironies are perhaps best observed in the SUV models are the names chosen by the manufactures, “Many vehicles are directly evocative of America’s western frontier mythology,…(p 106-7)”. Naming or using western names for SUV is another way of showing the accepted idea of sports utility vehicles in Americans families.
As far as the “Americas popular mythology” is concern, the SUV informs and casts back the principal components of the mythology. According to “SUV.com/news,” in...