I was at an animal hospital and watched as a couple brought in their two Irish Setters who jumped out of the box of their pickup doing 50 mph because they saw a squirrel. They were torn up pretty bad, with ;arge skinless patches on their elbows, legs and arms scraped down to the bone. Just before this happened, they had never had a problem with the dogs do that. This is a textbook case of aggravated cluelessness. Put a harness on your dog. Get a tether that threads through the rear seatbelt. Click the seatbelt secure. Clip the tether to the loop on the harness at the back. Make sure you allow enough slack for the sog to stand and to sit and to lie down.

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Sorry about my typing, and for writing, 'arms'. Bottom line, it was a miserable, horrible, sickening sight. If you're inclined to restrain your kids or someone else's kids in your car, then please restrain your dogs. Once they know that they can't be tossed about, they'll be more comfortable. Thanks.

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Okay, have you ever thought that I am not stupid and actually TRAIN my animals. Oh wait, no you didn't. I'm not stupid, and I make damn well sure my animals aren't either. I'm not going to restrain my animals for "comfort" or because some couples dogs were ingured. Does it happen often? Maybe, I don't know the statistics, but I shouldn't have to be told what to do because of someone else's accidents. Sorry, but that is how I roll, and I know my dogs are not going to jump out of my truck, they actually know better.

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Now train them to defy the laws of physics when you get rearended.

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I'm glad Farmboy's comment was the first. Though I wouldn't choose to cart my dog around in the bed of my truck for safety reasons, he's right that this so-called pet-friendly-vehicle article is just plain silly. If you want to keep dog hair and/or slobber off your seats, *any* vehicle sold today that has room behind the rear seats or reat seats that fold flat will do. If you truly care about your animal's safety, you can use a harness in *any* vehicle.

Dogs drink from the toilet. They want to stick their head out the window. They really don't care whether you spend $30,000 on a pseudo-SUV or not.

FWIW, George Lucas came up with the idea for his Wookiees from driving around in one of his many sports cars with his large hairy dog sitting to his right. That's "pet friendy"!

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i think Isetta + Great Dane wins

literally.... the dog did not fit in the car and his head and neck were sticking out of the window while the rest of the dog took up the interior.

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You obviously don't know much about this vehicle. My neighbor has one and he loves it (and his other car is a Toyota Sienna). Since its introduction Journeys have outsold the Ford Flex every month. No the two are not in the same class but the Flex had a mega million dollar marketing campaign. When's the lsat time you saw an ad for the Journey? The inlclusion in this list means that the Journey is a comfortable vehicle for pets (and homo sapiens as well) and has configurable seating that can be removed or folded flat.

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Re: Frank,

A vehicles sales hardly says anything about whether a car is good or not, we all know Chevy sells lots of Aveos. I'm happy for Chrysler that its been worth their while, but ask any owner of a new car and they will love it. I have a friend who owns a Caliber and thinks its the best thing going...meanwhile as a passenger I can clearly tell that its been produced in 5 minutes by a dude with a hangover using recycled newspaper and mailboxes. The Journey is cheap, that's the main achievement of the vehicle, and why it sold more than the double-the-cost Flex.

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Actually, I got stuck with one as a rental for about 2-3 weeks earlier this year. Had about as much experience as you can with a vehicle without owning it. Maybe if you trim it up the equation changes, but I hated mine.

The transmission sounded like a cooler with half-melted ice sloshing around in it. The engine was uninspired, and if you got on it (which you have to do to get up to highway speeds on on-ramps), you got a death wail akin to a lawnmower running over a pile of marbles. Steering was so soft and overboosted that it made my wife's CR-V feel as taut as my Mini by comparison.

On the inside, the Journey had the ONLY radio I've ever encountered that wouldn't save a station as a preset by pressing and holding one of the 1-6 buttons. Doing so would just switch you to the preset. So far as I can tell, setting a preset required at least one more button. No thanks.

The seats were okay, cushy for my liking, not terrible but nothing to brag about. And the dash and trim pieces were cheap, hard, and, at times, sharp. Far cry from the soft-touch materials in our family's two cars, or even the (since you seem to keep drawing a bead on it) the Flex or two I've been in.

Yeah I can see the use of the fold and remove seats and some of the trick storage compartments, but those aren't enough to make me buy a car (or choose it over several more worthy competitors).

Regarding Flex versus Journey sales...so? The Flex is a full-size, the Journey is more a mid-size. Comparing their sales would be akin to comparing the Avenger to the Taurus instead of the Fusion. And compared to the Flex, there's no contest.

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akboss302,

My friend has had his Journey for over 6 months, enough time for the new car syndrome to wear off. He still likes it very much. And he has owned plenty of imports like the Sienna. I don't think he is influenced by the fact that it's relatively new. The Journey dosen't sell because it's cheap, it sells because it's a good value. It offers a lot for the price. And Chevy doesn't really sell that many Aveos, not enough to keep a factory running hear. that's one reason they are made in Korea for the Korean, US, and other markets around the world (the other reason is costs of course).

Doogs,

Never, EVER, rate a car based on a rental. They are (usually) the cheapest, decontented POS you could ever find. And you don't know how the other renters have treated it. Yours was probably the 4 banger budget model (pun intended). The V6 with the 6 speed automatic is so much better it's like a different car. My comment about FLex sales still stands. Ford invested huge $ into it's development and then spent millions to market it. But it's sales are dismal. Imagine Journey sales with a Ford sized ad budget to back it up.
By the eay I used to have an old Corolla that you had to hit a set button before the preset button to set a station. It's not that unusual.

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FJ Cruiser is another good one, even though the car has turned into another Vehicross

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Force is measured in pounds (or Newtons):

"To figure out the units of force, we will need to recall the formula for force given by Newton's 2nd Law. The formula is
F = ma.

Therefore, the units of force are mass times acceleration. We already know the units for mass, and we just figured out the units of acceleration. Therefore, the unit for force is "(kg)*[m/(sec*sec)]". Alternatively, we may write the unit for force as "(kg*m)/(sec*sec)".

At this point, you might recall that we had an easier unit for force, namely the "Newton". If you recalled this, you are correct. However, there are no tricks here. "Newton" is just short for "(kg*m)/(sec*sec)". That's why we used the "Newton" because it was a lot easier to just write N instead of (kg*m)/(sec*sec). When we write "N" for the unit of force, we are implicitly writing (kg*m)/(sec*sec).

As an aside, the English unit for force is pounds. Both pounds and Newtons are units of force. The only difference is that pounds is the unit of force in the English systems of units while Newtons is the unit of force in the S.I. system of units. Even though they are both units of force, they are not equal to one another. In fact, 1 Newton = 0.2248 pounds."

http://physics.webplasma.com/physics03.html#f

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