ROBERT SAYRE wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

CA> For quite some time SUV was 'jeep wannabe' and everyone knew
CA> that. It could be the gov is applying this designation to various
CA> other vehicles as a ploy but I don't know right now what that
CA> would be.

RS> MONEY!

Yeah,  "follow the money"...  It sure does explain a lot,  when
you start looking at things.

RS>  Everybody hates SUV's, 

Eh?  Not me!

RS> so lets charge additional taxes on them! The more SUV's there are, 
RS> the more money they can take. It's just that simple.  :^(

It sucks that right now I'm paying roughly triple to register my truck
compared to what I'm paying for my car,  and that for a vehicle that I
don't run all that much,  having gotten it for the occasional need to haul
stuff...

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