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But it's also true that it's people like her that are the reason for behemoth SUVs. You have some interesting speculation here but no evidence at all. Growing

But it's also true that it's people like her that are the reason for behemoth SUVs. You have some interesting speculation here but no evidence at all. Growing up my family had a station wagon and a regular sedan. They had comparable gas mileage IIRC. I think station wagons were driven out of the market (heh) in part because people felt safer and more powerful in SUVs and when you're driving your family around, safety matters. I certainly knew a lot of people who got SUVs for hauling the family around specifically because the high altitude made them feel invincible and they assumed that the extra weight would help in crashes against smaller vehicles.

Locke1689 16y ago
For whatever it's worth, I have an anecdote regarding safety in station wagons vs. SUVs. When I was young my little sister was almost killed in a car accident because she was in the back seat of a station wagon when they were rear-ended by an SUV. SUVs don't have the same bumper level that other cars do, so instead of impacting the designed crumple zone, the SUV rolled up into the back window of the station wagon. Another foot and she would have been decapitated. Subsequently, I've seen a couple sources which corroborate this trend -- in high speed accidents between cars and SUVs the fatality rates where higher than two cars.
natep 16y ago
> You have some interesting speculation here but no evidence at all. And you follow this assertion with more speculation without evidence. Interesting...