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In my experience in America, women prefer huge SUVs while men prefer more sporty cars, or trucks. Huge SUVs are slightly feminine because they're good for gett
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
In my experience in America, women prefer huge SUVs while men prefer more sporty cars, or trucks. Huge SUVs are slightly feminine because they're good for getting the kids to soccer practice. SUVs ate the market for vans, another vehicle good for moving a bunch of kids around.
That's just my observations. The data might say otherwise.
- watwut 4y ago> Huge SUVs are slightly feminine because they're good for getting the kids to soccer practice Genuinely, in what way? When I am taking kids somewhere, I want car that fits into small parking space. I just dont see what SUV would help with.
- sokoloff 4y agoIn most parts of the US, sports practice areas tend to have ample parking. Optimizing for "fits into small parking space" is largely a benefit only in cities.
- bombcar 4y agoSUVs come in all sizes now, and there's some advantage to certain sizes. Most people don't have an array of vehicles to choose from except when buying, so they don't really get much of a choice between "the car" and "the SUV". When you have small children a minivan becomes really nice, since the doors open wide which helps with car seats and booster buckling.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoUnless you're in a downtown urban center, soccer practice has plenty of parking space for your ship-sized SUV (for that matter, so do downtown parking garages. It only becomes an issue with street parking.) Also you want a car that can fit 7 or 8 kids because you take turns with other parents ferrying many kids around, not just your own.
- yamtaddle 4y agoGood at keeping the occupants alive in a collision with another giant car. Crash stats from tests are largely for like-on-like—good luck with your Ford Focus' decent safety rating when you're t-boned by an F-250 :-/ And nobody cares about parking space size out in the US 'burbs. Parallel parking's almost non-existent, garages uncommon outside the city proper, and spaces are huge and plentiful (arguably too plentiful, even allowing for car-centric living—a high percentage of it sees almost no use at all in a given year) The size lets you leave all the kids' activity shit in the car all the time, so you/they don't forget it at home.