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Trying to figure out what qualifies as 100% business use. roll Mind you, would have to make it to the 35% tax bracket first!!
8) Well that figures. It will just mean that they will help those individuals use a scares resourse even quicker, rather than trying to move them out of those big cars.
I wonder how they are going to be helped when all the sh*t has gone, maybe a free horse and cart, will the rest of us just have a horse lol
But this also applies to vans and trucks too, not just SUVs. evil
I think people have less of a problem with trucks and vans as they do have more legitimate business purposes. An SUV is just a large passenger vehicle.
On the contrary ! Are you saying everyone driving a truck has it for business use? I can't stand trucks, and just think the guys and women that drive it, are making up for the inadequacies in other areas, if you get my drift.
In north america, class seems to be defined on how big your truck is, back home in blighty on the other hand, it's all about how you speak, and the school you went to. D
All these people that go on about HEMI power and all that, it's just a load of bollox to me roll
On the contrary ! Are you saying everyone driving a truck has it for business use?
Hell no, but it's useful when you need to move tons of stuff.
On the contrary ! Are you saying everyone driving a truck has it for business use? I can't stand trucks, and just think the guys and women that drive it, are making up for the inadequacies in other areas, if you get my drift.
Of course not. I'm just saying that a truck or van has a more legitimate business purpose than an SUV might. In that you can haul equipment/goods in a truck or van that you really can't so much in an SUV. I believe that some people with trucks/vans are also abusing this tax benefit.
That is why we have U HAUL for those times you might want to move stuff, and they are as cheap as $1999 a day here in canada for the biggest trucks lol
Could it be people are buying them for the GPS, DVDs and other gadgets that come with the cars now?
Some people actually use them for multiple uses, as they were designed for.
I use mine for trips to home depot, moving furniture, groceries, kids, 2 large dogs, pulling any of 3 trailers we have, camping and I'm sure /i could go on and on.
Just because you live in a metropolitan area and have little use for these types of vehicles and have easy access to other options doesn't mean the rest of us can do the same and could give them up.
There's more rural areas in the US than city and for most of those areas a truck or SUV is another tool not just transportation.
Some people actually use them for multiple uses, as they were designed for.
I'm sure they do.
I use mine for trips to home depot, moving furniture, groceries, kids, 2 large dogs, pulling any of 3 trailers we have, camping and I'm sure /i could go on and on.
Most people have these issues.
Just because you live in a metropolitan area and have little use for these types of vehicles and have easy access to other options doesn't mean the rest of us can do the same and could give them up.
The main strike against these things is that most in metropolitan areas use these things for picking up kids in the school parking lot whilst leaving the engine running, going to the Mcdonalds drive-thru and the mall. They do not need to be cluttering up city streets, parking in two parking spaces in already busy metropolitan areas because one is not enough or threatening people in smaller cars. My husband went through a year of physiotherapy because we were hit by an SUV at a stop light. Somehow this was paid through our health insurance Because the point of impact is different in an SUV v. car collision it is far more dangerous. These vehicles also put everyones insurance prices up, regardless of what they drive. These are a few reasons why people who choose to drive compact cars do not like them.
There's more rural areas in the US than city and for most of those areas a truck or SUV is another tool not just transportation.
I wonder what these people did before they were invented. We all make choices. If it's you're choice to live far away from Walmart then so be it.
I'm glad I don't have to make a big justification for driving a compact car. You can drive whatever you like. Just don't expect other people not to have an opinion on it.
Could it be people are buying them for the GPS, DVDs and other gadgets that come with the cars now?
Only thing I need is a decent sound system. And a chainlink steering wheel. Oh yeah, and a cigarette lighter. And a cupholder that holds a Big Gulp.
/couldn't find a gun rack for an El Camino. :cry:
Just because you live in a metropolitan area and have little use for these types of vehicles and have easy access to other options doesn't mean the rest of us can do the same and could give them up.
The main strike against these things is that most in metropolitan areas use these things for picking up kids in the school parking lot whilst leaving the engine running, going to the Mcdonalds drive-thru and the mall. They do not need to be cluttering up city streets, parking in two parking spaces in already busy metropolitan areas because one is not enough or threatening people in smaller cars. My husband went through a year of physiotherapy because we were hit by an SUV at a stop light. Somehow this was paid through our health insurance Because the point of impact is different in an SUV v. car collision it is far more dangerous. These vehicles also put everyones insurance prices up, regardless of what they drive. These are a few reasons why people who choose to drive compact cars do not like them.
I agree people who only use them to drop kids off at school don't have justification for them, I am not defending them, though you really don't know what most of them use them for in between.
We also have a compact car. It's used for school runs and going to the stores or restaurants or a drive to a friends.
There's more rural areas in the US than city and for most of those areas a truck or SUV is another tool not just transportation.
I wonder what these people did before they were invented. We all make choices. If it's you're choice to live far away from Walmart then so be it.
Trucks have been around almost as long as cars of any size.
I don't see what Walmart has to do with anything.
I choose to live where I do as do you, therefore you get the vehicle that best serves your needs as I do.
I'm glad I don't have to make a big justification for driving a compact car.
I don't have to make justification for driving either size car, I use whichever suits my needs at the time.
You can drive whatever you like. Just don't expect other people not to have an opinion on it
I do and I don't expect you or anyone else not to have an opinion, never said you couldn't, much the same way as I can state my opinion too.
You see what you see everyday and it seems to outrage you, I see these same vehicles everyday being used for the function they were intended.
How about somebody pick on the sporty cars that burn as much gas as a truck and only have room for a driver and 1 passenger.
Wendy, I really didn't mean to sound quite so judgemental in the last post. I don't think that I'm a better person for not having one, I just think experience had made me hate the things.
I know in a past "debate" you said you lived up a gravel road and needed one. I'm not against that in the least. What I am against is people using them irresponsibly.
As for sports cars that guzzle too much gas, I pick on them too. It's just I can see around them, and they don't tend to sit in front of me like a rolling road block at 60mph.:wink:
I hate the things too. Whenever someone is running 1 foot from my bumber at 65mph on the highway 9 times out of 10 its an SUV or truck. I can usually see mostly grille in my rearview. What do I do......I slow down....I won't have someone driving so close to me.
Having said that, you don't have to justify anything legal here because we're Free...FREE and just think of all those people who have died and continue to die for our freedom to burn more fuel. wink
We qualify for this. We have 2 businesses and although the pick up is mainly used for business we use the SUV a LOT. Try hauling 3 dogs cross country in the back of a pick up. Yes it is possible, but it is not fair.
I can't stand trucks, and just think the guys and women that drive it, are making up for the inadequacies in other areas
This maybe true in some cases, but why make blanket statements like that? If we had a car it would probably get used 1 out of 200 times, we NEED our larger vehicles!
Whenever someone is running 1 foot from my bumber at 65mph on the highway 9 times out of 10 its an SUV or truck
Funny you should say that because for me whenever I am on the highway I feel like I am playing frogger with the compact cars, they zoom up behind me, pull out and back in again 2 inches from my bumper.. they scare the crap out of me! Like cockroaches.. small, quick, scary and extremely annoying!