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"SUV" doesn't mean anything specific. Look around you on the road: SUVs are the new minivans. People buying new cars today grew up in minivans, and the last thi
by coldpie 11y ago
"SUV" doesn't mean anything specific. Look around you on the road: SUVs are the new minivans. People buying new cars today grew up in minivans, and the last thing you want to drive is the thing your mom drove. Give it another 20 years and I bet we see the minivan come back in style as kids growing up with SUVs now think of them as the soccer-mom-mobiles that they are.
- nulltype 11y agoYou're forgetting about station wagons.
- stan_rogers 11y agoIt is a marketing term that means "we're going to sell you something you'll probably think of as a big car, but which only has to meet light truck standards". There was a time when something like a Jimmy or a Bronco was distinctly downmarket and likely to have utilitarian rubber floor mats rather than carpeting. (Yes, there were some "gentlemanly" vehicles in the general class, like the Range Rover and the Wagoneer, but most were all business.) CAFE regulations didn't include trucks, so we were sold trucks instead of cars. Now people want trucks that look like cars from the inside.
- ghaff 11y agoActually, a lot of my whitewater paddling friends favor minivans over SUVs for a combination of being able to haul a lot of gear and ease of shuttling people.