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LETTERS: David R J Jarrett Sports utility vehicles and older pedestrians: Solution must consider psychology of SUV use BMJ 2005; 331: 967-c [Full text]

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Wrongly named SUVs

Phillip J. Colquitt   (21 October 2005)

Wrongly named SUVs 21 October 2005
Phillip J. Colquitt, BMJ Reader Independent Comment Send response to journal: Re: Wrongly named SUVs	“Sports Utility Vehicle”[SUV] seems such a sanitised name for something deliberately aimed at protecting oneself from potential injury by maiming the other party in a collision. Unless running over old folk is now seen as sport, in which case irony applies. And while “Chelsea tractor” is suitably derisive toward the snobs who drive SUVs, it misses the evil aspect. “Hummer”, a name used for a truck like military vehicle on the other hand, sounds suitably menacing, and so a more honest example of vehicle naming. With Saddam Hussein safely in the dock, his missiles all “gone”, the missile term “SCUD” becomes potentially available, and is a suitably nasty alternative name for these 4 wheel drives.[Superior Collateral Urban Damage]. Competing interests: Save expressions of success