Is this on the level? --The Marsupial, the world's biggest SUV...

[KansDem]

World's Biggest SUV Coming To Market



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The primary target buyer is the aging baby boomer who, according to the memo, "wants to lead an active, mobile lifestyle, but who is now intimidated by air travel and yet still maintains both a summer and winter home."

This same customer, according to the memo, is put off by the downscale packaging of mobile homes, even though such vehicles offer many of the features of the Marsupial. "The key is to go way beyond the bloated look of Winnebagos. It can't look like a house with vinyl siding," says the Detroit executive. "These folks want a really muscular style," he said, "but it also has to blow the doors off of anything else in the marketplace, delivering everything to the mobile customer he can get in his home."

According to the memo there will be 1.2 million such Americans by 2007, and these buyers, unlike the aging boomers, wouldn't otherwise consider a mobile home.

But the even-larger market for the Marsupial is the additional 2.3 million younger households with overweight kids, according to the company's marketing data.

That's key, says the Detroit executive, since the parents of such children are finding it increasingly difficult to accommodate their heavier offspring--and all of their toys and electronic gaming devices--in even today's largest SUV offerings. And those same households, according to the source, are also intimidated by air travel but still have the desire to take family vacations.

http://www.forbes.com/2002/04/01/0401vow.html

It's Forbes, but it almost reads like a parody, like something from The Onion.

It appears that overweight children are influencing the design of SUVs to make them even larger...

[NV Whino]

1. They can use all their overweight children

to push it down the highway when we run out of oil.

[R3dD0g]

2. Scroll to the end of the second page of the article

and you'll see a

"To read more about the Marsupial, click here. "

When you click there, a window pops up with April Fool.

But, our society is so sick now, that even the most outlandish idea can't be easily dismissed.

[KansDem]

6. WHAAA....??!!!

Assh*les!!

This makes me extremely acrimonious!!

They should remove this article if it was an April Fools joke...

Hey, Forbes! It's November!!! Update your f*cking website!!!

:mad: :nuke: :mad: :mad: :nuke: :mad: :mad: :nuke: :mad:

[billyoc]

3. Bwahahaha!

WTF is that spinnaker up top, the snack tray?!

[doni_georgia]

4. You ought to see all the Hummer Limos around here on weekends

Why would my little suburb be full of Hummer limos on weekends? Little league cheerleaders off to competition. They all rent these fuckugly gasgussling stretch Hummers to take their little 5-10 year old girls (dressed as Jon Benet Ramsey) to go cheer. UGH@ makes me sick every time I see one.

[ContraBass Black]

5. Look at the photo.

It's an altered picture of a Ford Excursion.

[TwilightZone]

7. Look at the URL.

4/1/2002.