That may be so but this is my first SUV and I love it. It's nice being able to see down the road rather than looking at the back window of a SUV or Truck not being able to see what's up ahead. So far I'm getting 17mpg with my foot stuck in that 32 valve 4 cam V-8. And that I'm really impressed with!! I'm anxious to see how well it does when I calm down a bit with it.

This past summer with my E320 really burned me out on it, i.e. ISC/CC unit, and a bunch of other things. I enjoy working on my cars but it was getting way tooooo excessive with that one. It had a lot of miles on it so I'm not really knocking the car, it just feels really good to not worry about what's next with it!!

I now see (literally) what the draw of SUV's are, good down the road vision, ability to haul lots of people and things, etc. etc.

And believe me, the thought of a new Benz was not a thought, especially with the way people are complaining about them these days. I love the new E500, but I really would expect higher qaulity than what I've read coming from Benz. We'll see in a few years what this does to the company if things continue to decline for them.

The ML was a serious thought but not after reading some of the current owners complaints. I don't need a shop queen, not that this Aviator couldn't turn out to be one. But after doing some research on it, people rated it a 9.5 for satisfaction with no major problems. I just hope I didn't get one that falls in the .5 category.