Chris W wrote in news:E3ygd.83457$cJ3.13329@fed1read06:

Corky Scott wrote:

Since they *MUST* have four wheel drive in order to keep their light
truck status, commercials continually hype the usefulness of their
off-road capability, despite the fact that many of them are sold in
states where no snow or ice normally falls.



Do you seriously think that snow and ice are the only reason to have
4WD?


Of course not. there's the school run, posing next to it at the bar, beer
runs, posing next to it in your driveway, shopping runs, posing next to it
at work, driving into the path of oncoming trains when you dose off to help
with the overpopulation problem, posing inside of it while the cut you out
from under the train, The list is almost endless.

Bertie