In a message dated 11/9/2001 Henrik Dahl writes:
<< To a poor foreigner, please spell out what SUV stands for. It's
something with cars, right? Vans? I just want to know if it's
something I should hemorrhag (love that word) for. >>
Ummm... Well, it is a US Automaker's achronym for "Sports Utility
Vehicle" coined to sell trucks to consumers who would otherwise normally
buy "cars" because they don't want "trucks."
-snip
Mike Veglia
Uh, is that "sport" as in greasy receding hair, loud shirt, gold neck
chain over-the-hill large car motoring kind of sport? :-)
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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