I have hated SUVs for decades, and have denigrated their owners for all that time. I prefer light, small, nippy, manoeuvrable cars with small turning circles. (

I have hated SUVs for decades, and have denigrated their owners for all that time. I prefer light, small, nippy, manoeuvrable cars with small turning circles. (Like my Leyland Mini, or my Mazda Rotary R100 of days gone by.) So here I am, the unproud owner of an SUV, myself. I was forced to give up a nice sedan/saloon that was only two and a bit years old, with less than 10,000 of my driving kilometres on it. The reason for that was to store the components of my wifes mobility scooter. The nicer, smaller car just couldn't hack it. The scooter-storage necessity had turned a normal 4-door 5-passenger car with boot into basically a 2-seater car with practically no luggage space. On the few occasions when I don't have to carry the scooter in the cargo-space of the SUV, I am still gob-smacked at the amount of empty space in that damned thing. And it's only a mid-sized SUV too. So please don't vandalise those SUVs. You'd probably find that we're in complete agreement with you if we spent a few minutes over a beer or two.