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Originally Posted by broadrun96
Well yes, it is purely marketing and InstFaceChat sheeple. But hasn't that been every car, clothing, electronic, housing, etc for all of time? It's not like it's a car specific thing, NO ONE could have ever thought any 70s fashion was good. It was supposed to be cool so you had to or be thought stupid until it was all that was left.
And most of the SUVs replace cars with the same or close to the same characteristics for the average driver. Fuel economy numbers are pretty close for a car with the same seating area, weights aren't much different across most of the cross platform car/suv/van models when comparing like built cars (you can't compare the stripped out car to the luxury SUV version), and handling-wise many aren't outside of the average drivers range (track and announced times are irrelevant on the actual roads) between the SUV to car. And the amount of crap people are almost forced to carry around the minute they have a kid, and car seats bigger and stronger than the Apollo capsule, means the tiny and often inaccessible build style of a trunk means the car is out for most. And most SUVs built now are an estate with bigger wheels, it's a car chassis with a hatch at the rear. And yes, I'm purposefully excluding the most useless of cars, the mini-SUVs and coupe styled SUVs. Neither has any sport or utility so are just wrong and useless.
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Exactly.
Bottom line: SUVs sell well. If you build a good one, people will buy it. So they absolutely don't feel bad or silly building SUVs, because they fly out the showroom.
There's good reason Nissan don't even sell 4 door saloons (sedans) in the UK (or, AFAIK, the rest of Europe). They didn't sell. Now it's hatchbacks, sportscars and SUVs.