These lemmings of which you speak...they're called "soccer moms." It's just the next generation after the ones who all went out and bought minivans ten years ago. I wish they'd all die, and take their damn kids with them.

And a few more...the mileage is what we figured up (I forget what the sticker advertised). Lesse...she bought the Expedition because Ford was running a special on them at the time, and it was considerably less than $30K. Side-by-side, I think SUVs (as a whole, anyway) are much more aesthetically pleasing than vans. Also, vans have the stigma of being owned either by soccer moms or serial killers. The engine's a 4.6 - no real need for the larger one unless you've got 4WD or drive exclusively uphill. :) Also, the rear seats of an Expedition remove and the middle row folds down, giving more cargo space than anyone who's not smuggling immigrants will ever really need. And on a final note, the Aztec is the most unholy-looking vehicle ever to grace the streets of America, and anyone who would buy one should have their driver's license immediately revoked on the grounds of severe blindness. The first time I saw one on TV, I thought it looked pretty damned cool. Bear in mind, I was thirty feet away from the TV and there was a dining room set between it and me. I saw one in a parking lot two days later and almost ran it over, thinking it was a horribly mutated deer.