The Lincoln Navigator brings in $10,000-$12,000 in profit to Ford Motor Co, and hopefully, the profits will benefit the United States (assuming they dont take the profits to build plants abroad), while buying the Honda brings in $2,500-$3,000 in profits that go to Japan -- a country whose leaders tout their racial superiority over the USA. And I'm sure some of that money going to Japan will be used to buy petroleum from the mid-east. Thus, the Honda buyer is "supporting terrorism."
And the Hondas, Nissans, and Toyotas, with their lawnmower engines, cant climb a hill worth a damn. On the steep, winding, two-lane roads in WV, the Honda can go only 25 up the hills, forcing all the traffic stuck behind them in no-passing zones to downshift and reduce their mileage by half. (They're even slower than a fully-loaded 18-wheeler doing us all good by delivering the goods we buy.) The EPA highway mileage data are essentially good only for brand new cars driven on flat-land interstate highways -- and mean nothing for more realistic driving patterns, road conditions, and in the case of automatic transmissions driven over 500 miles,since it was built or rebuilt. Take all those into consideration and the gap between the SUV or pickup versus the Honda would narrow considerably.
I have an F-350 7.3-L diesel 4WD; and it's absolutely needed to haul heavy loads up my accessroad, which has up to 30% grades. There's no way some wimpy 2WD subcompact sedan with 3" of clearance and less power than some riding lawnmower could haul 2 tons of gravel up my road -- or even make it up with no load.
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