“SUVs” in a lot of cases are just raised hatchbacks on what are essentially regular ol’ car platforms; nobody’s going off-roading in a dang CR-V.
(that doesn’t do any favors for their fuel efficiency though)
SUVs of their car counterparts drive like shit. Sure the Porche SUV drives nice, but the 911 drives wayyyy better. I’d take a wagon over an suv and just use snow tires when needed.
It’s been tested that an suv with regular tires and AWD can’t perform as well as a 2WD version with snow tires. With All seasons the snow performance is marginally better than snow tires.
I think the word for that is a “crossover”. Is there actually a smaller version of the CRV frame?
I cannot express with words how much I hate those bloody space-wasting useless vehicles.
They deserve to be keyed, wheat-pasted with tiny dicks, pissed on and ridiculed in every possible way.
They cause a mess on every parking lot in Europe now that were built for reasonably sized cars - cars that carry up to 5 people perfectly well.
6% YOY increase in pedestrian deaths since 2008 coincides with an almost exact same YOY increase in the marketshare of trucks and SUVs
Far before that… check out the cars of the 60s and 70s. More stylish, but just as impractical, inefficient and deadly.
Right, I disagree with the premise of this meme that things were better before, they weren’t. But nowadays you do have options and we have better awareness so if you’re still making those dumb decisions like buying SUVs, that’s worse in a sense.
Good nuts: Macadamia Pea Gorilla
Bad: Truck