3 ms·
The station wagon and the minivan are uncool. The SUV is guilt-inducing and retrograde. Hence, the "crossover," which is basically a tall station wagon, a short
by jonnathanson 11y ago
The station wagon and the minivan are uncool. The SUV is guilt-inducing and retrograde. Hence, the "crossover," which is basically a tall station wagon, a short minivan, or a low SUV, depending on your perspective. In all of these cases it also skirts the marketing risks now apparently associated with using words like "station wagon," "SUV," or "minivan." Sooner or later "crossover" will sound lame (kinda always has, but I digress). They'll call it something new.
- kbenson 11y agoYou can pry my minivan steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. I'm firmly of the belief that most people that denigrate the minivan haven't driven even a moderately good modern one for any significant length of time.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- jonnathanson 11y agoI'm not casting any personal aspersions on the minivan. I actually respect the minivan. I'm just saying that the term/class "minivan" no longer seems cool, and car makers seem to be distancing themselves from it to varying degrees, replacing it with terms/classes like "crossover."