Poll Time!

My father-in-law is looking for a new SUV for my Mother-in-law. Right now there are 4 choices. 3 of them will fit in the garage, one is too tall. He wants AWD or 4WD for the wintertime so he can use it for work (my mother-in-law doesn't leave the house in the winter). I'm actually rooting for the GLK350.

So out of these 4 choices what would you get?

Mercedes-Benz GLK350


Audi Q5


Range Rover HSE Sport


Chevy Tahoe Hybrid 2-mode

RR is the coolest.

He likes the Range Rover, but he also knows that they have a poor service record, so he may not go for that.

I like the Audi Q5 in that color or black.

audi, if its not an electrical nightmare that is. otherwise, the merc.

What about a Q7? or a Toureg?

A Sia Bani hybrid

1300ZUK wrote:What about a Q7? or a Toureg?

In all reality he's going to get a smaller SUV than the last two I listed. My mother-in-law has a hard time getting into anything you have to climb into.

We went and looked at the baby Merc and it's rather sweet.

And also Zuk, why do you never do the poll? You always suggest something else.

why does she not leave the house in the winter? creepy...

Olds wrote:why does she not leave the house in the winter? creepy...

She's scared to drive in the winter weather unless it's been dry for several days, but if it's wet or it's snowing, forget about it.

Bluntman wrote:A Sia Bani hybrid

Bluntman wrote:A Sia Bani hybrid

SBF wrote:He likes the Range Rover, but he also knows that they have a poor service record, so he may not go for that.

those fucking RRs live in the shop. pieces of shit that do godlike things when they're actually working.

SBF wrote:

1300ZUK wrote:What about a Q7? or a Toureg?

In all reality he's going to get a smaller SUV than the last two I listed. My mother-in-law has a hard time getting into anything you have to climb into.

We went and looked at the baby Merc and it's rather sweet.

And also Zuk, why do you never do the poll? You always suggest something else.

I never see anything i like in the polls

Aristotle wrote:

SBF wrote:He likes the Range Rover, but he also knows that they have a poor service record, so he may not go for that.

those fucking RRs live in the shop. pieces of shit that do godlike things when they're actually working.

Yeah like sit at a 45 degree angle blocking the entire entrance into the office parking lot while the bitch behind the wheel rummages through her fucking purse.

H3 should also be considered.

Nothing says red neck like the H3T

zdc_LarryRX wrote:Nothing says red neck like the H3T

Rednecks don't drive $45K midsize 4dr pickups.

They start at $32K and you can get it with a 5-speed manual.

SBF wrote:They start at $32K and you can get it with a 5-speed manual.

Yeah but once you get the 5.3L the price goes high.

and i think the 5cyl would be slow as balls, and don't remember if you can get the off-road package or not.

That thing is supposed to be getting the 3.6L V6 for 2010, but unless it's a truck only engine, it doesn't have shit for torque. Also rumored for 2010 was a V6 diesel, then I would think that thing would be worth owning

SBF wrote:That thing is supposed to be getting the 3.6L V6 for 2010, but unless it's a truck only engine, it doesn't have shit for torque. Also rumored for 2010 was a V6 diesel, then I would think that thing would be worth owning

No and no.


All Hummer projects are scrapped, the H3T barely made the cut off. and GM ditched their light duty diesel engine

1300ZUK wrote:

SBF wrote:That thing is supposed to be getting the 3.6L V6 for 2010, but unless it's a truck only engine, it doesn't have shit for torque. Also rumored for 2010 was a V6 diesel, then I would think that thing would be worth owning

No and no.


All Hummer projects are scrapped, the H3T barely made the cut off. and GM ditched their light duty diesel engine

Then the automags need to shut their filthy mouths.

No GM just announced the no diesel thing a few weeks ago.

I know nothing of the 3.6L thing though, because i think the atlas engines are done soon. and they put the 3.6 in everything, just hope they don't.

Well that was a mistake, out of all the shit they could have dropped, the small displacement diesel for the trucks was probably the stupidest thing to do. Their truck sales could have gone up easily.

SBF wrote:Well that was a mistake, out of all the shit they could have dropped, the small displacement diesel for the trucks was probably the stupidest thing to do. Their truck sales could have gone up easily.

nope, Diesel is hard to market.

and this is GM we are talking about

Wait, it's hard to market a diesel truck? Says who? I know several people who want a diesel engine in a small truck like the Ranger and Tacoma, and people (me included) that would like a diesel engine in light duty half-ton trucks.

I guarantee that it is twice as difficult to market diesel cars in the US than Diesel trucks. Plus if someone were to offer a diesel in a non-Heavy Duty truck, commercial sales would increase.

SBF wrote:Wait, it's hard to market a diesel truck? Says who? I know several people who want a diesel engine in a small truck like the Ranger and Tacoma, and people (me included) that would like a diesel engine in light duty half-ton trucks.

I guarantee that it is twice as difficult to market diesel cars in the US than Diesel trucks. Plus if someone were to offer a diesel in a non-Heavy Duty truck, commercial sales would increase.

See Ford

Link?

actually now that i read all of them have shevled their light duty diesel projects, it thought ford was still keeping theirs, but i guess not.

So GM, Ford, Dodge, Toyota all have put those projects on hold indefinitely