Car and Driver’s Brock Yates slams SUV critics like Fox’s Bill O’Reilly who “insist America’s transportation needs can be met by everyone toddling around in tiny subcompacts consuming eyedroplets of gasoline (or better yet, hydrogen or yogurt or cowpies, or whatever is the energy source du jour).” On the contrary, Yates observes, millions of people buy sport-utility vehicles because, as he puts it, “they find their utility of value.” Recalling the famous description of New York Mayor John Lindsay as a “limousine liberal,” Yates calls O’Reilly “a New York City elitist who wouldn’t know a good automobile if it ran over him in Times Square.”
