S.U.V.

"It used to be much wetter here when I was a boy, " Hamad Reesi said, as our S. U. V. lurched up a gravel switchback in the foothills.

Mr. Zhang now lives in a big house in Little Neck, Queens, with his wife, three daughters and parents, and drives a Lexus S. U. V.

Soon we were off-road entirely, the undercarriage of the S. U. V. clanging like a gong, a cloud of dust billowing around us.

One day a satellite captured images of the S. U. V. pulling into a large concrete compound in Abbottabad.

Kuwaiti drove a white S. U. V. whose spare-tire cover was emblazoned with an image of a white rhino.

It led to a situation whereby General Motors could make money only by selling big, gas-guzzling S. U. V. 's and trucks.

Instead of driving around in a white S. U. V. with a security detail, he wears local clothes and takes battered local cars to blend in.

Claims adjusters would work from a fleet of vans and S. U. V. 's dispatched to policy holders' homes or even directly to an accident scene.

Mr. Pope notes that his group has stopped short of castigating people for driving S. U. V. 's or building overly large homes, too.

Then we found out that if every living soul on the planet had a fridge and a house and an S. U. V. , we would choke on our own exhaust.

They had two cars, a red S. U. V. and a white Suzuki jeep, neighbors said.

In the S. U. V. , with my new daughter under my care for the first time, these musings became terribly real.

About a month ago, she backed her S. U. V. into 12 people outside Marquee.

Then their sixties roll around, and they wish they'd spent less on S. U. V. s and HDTVs and put more into their 401(k)s.

The United States, for example, assesses a tariff of 2. 5 percent on imported cars, minivans and S. U. V. 's.