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A lot of SUVs are more or less the same thing as a minivan. The minivan, like the station wagon is a casualty of its own success. Both became synonymous with bo
by etempleton 3y ago
A lot of SUVs are more or less the same thing as a minivan. The minivan, like the station wagon is a casualty of its own success. Both became synonymous with boring domestic middle class family life.
- blamazon 3y agoThe recent Kia Carnival (name for US market IIRC) is an interesting response to this phenomenon. It's a true minivan that's just styled as if it's an SUV.
- porkbeer 3y agoI feel most SUVs are just minivans for people who would not want to be seen driving a minivan.
- blamazon 3y agoMy theory is that there's (in USA) a pervasive emotional connection to driver seat height that's driven/exacerbated by the arms race to build larger and taller vehicles. Everyone wants their family to be in the safest vehicle possible, and higher driver seat height is a tactile, intuitive way to feel like you're in a larger and ostensibly safer vehicle, than other cars on the road with lower driver seat height. Around where I am, the Kia Telluride is much more popular than the Carnival, which I think is telling.
- cf100clunk 3y agoMy thoughts on the demise of the North American station wagon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324322