Cartoon Tuesday: Outmoded
By
Ben Fried
5:00 PM EDT on July 15, 2008
From Dick Locher of the Chicago Tribune comes a cartoon complement to Judith Warner’s essay in the Times last Friday, declaring that SUVs have outlived any “utility” owners may once have derived from them.
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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