Sirc
12-27-2005, 07:22 AM
I was out in my Suburban (which I'm selling :bawling: ), and I was at a stop sign and decided to punch it and count the traditional 1 - 1 thousand, 2 - 1 thousand, etc. seconds, and it got to 60mph well before I hit 4 seconds. As much as this surprised me, it didn't really after I thought about it. I knew the sumbiatch kicked ass. Let's face it. The vehicle was designed to tow a 6000lb camper up a mountain in 95 deg weather without breaking a sweat. Getting on the highway from an on-ramp is a joy with it - I have to be careful not to hit the car that passed in front of me before I accelerated. And I knew that it snapped my head back harder then my 70 Chevelle ever did when I hit it. I just never really thought to time it. That dang thing's curb wieght is like 2-3 times that of a Mustang. What is a Mustang's 0-60 time?
God bless the Vortec V-8 engine. I have a guy that wants to buy it Friday. I'm having second thoughts. He wants to buy it because he already has a Suburban, and someone t-boned his wife's Ford Taurus with a stupid little Geo, and totalled the Taurus and now his wife is having lower abdomen pains. If that little Geo would have t-boned my Suburban I'm not sure I would have noticed that there was a tiny little car stuck under my Suburban until I got home and parked in the driveway.
It really makes me think about what my priorities are. My oldest son will get his license this spring. If I sell the Suburban, he will be driving a Saturn wagon. Granted, Saturns have a good safety rating but...it's hard to compete safety-wise with a 3 ton tank. They don't compare big-assed SUVs with cars in the safety tests. If they did, the Suburban would get a 5-star rating, and every other car would get a ROFL-rating. Dang. Tough decision. And I have to make it by Friday. :(
God bless the Vortec V-8 engine. I have a guy that wants to buy it Friday. I'm having second thoughts. He wants to buy it because he already has a Suburban, and someone t-boned his wife's Ford Taurus with a stupid little Geo, and totalled the Taurus and now his wife is having lower abdomen pains. If that little Geo would have t-boned my Suburban I'm not sure I would have noticed that there was a tiny little car stuck under my Suburban until I got home and parked in the driveway.
It really makes me think about what my priorities are. My oldest son will get his license this spring. If I sell the Suburban, he will be driving a Saturn wagon. Granted, Saturns have a good safety rating but...it's hard to compete safety-wise with a 3 ton tank. They don't compare big-assed SUVs with cars in the safety tests. If they did, the Suburban would get a 5-star rating, and every other car would get a ROFL-rating. Dang. Tough decision. And I have to make it by Friday. :(