I can only understand that they are great for older and/or overweight people who have trouble getting in and out of lower cars. They don’t need to be that large though
What would you recommend then in the countryside for a family of 5 or more with ample snow in the winter and lots of gravel roads? That can accommodate taking the kids to soccer and to/from school no matter the road conditions? As well as be used to go ski and other car based vacations like going to a beach resort/camping for a week. All of the above being very normal requirements for a family car in at least the Nordics.
A normal station wagon type generally has too low ground clearance but there are exceptions like the cross country models of Volvos. They also only have 5 seats so they just barely fit the family with no additional friends tagging along, and very few can handle double child seats without dropping down to max 4 people. For older kids then yeah it works well, if you don’t need the ground clearance, and you can pack on the roof if the trunk isn’t big enough.
A large pickup truck has issues with being usable for the vacation stuff. Sure you can pack on the flatbed and there are “houses” to give it cover but it’s hardly smooth, and they’re even larger and more expensive than a SUV.
Since 2007 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population more people in the world live in urban areas rather than not. I’m not saying it is not your case and thus the question isn’t important to you. What I do want to highlight though is that, without any additional context, someone would be statistically right to assume that a complete stranger does live in a city, not on the countryside. Consequently while suggesting the use of SUV making suggestion first for urban population is what would have the most impact.
TL;DR: no idea, it’s not the majority of people and the trend or urbanisation worldwide is accelerating.
Europeans are finally realizing the superiority of an SUV, something that Americans have known for decades now. They are voting with their wallet and leaving poorly designed cars behind.
Cars are uncomfortable to get into and out of. Low sitting positions are uncomfortable when compared to a more natural upright position in an SUV. They don’t have the ground clearance SUVs have when on marginal roads.
I’d argue that SUVs are far superior in normal traffic, the commanding height allowed the driver to see traffic patterns blocks ahead and make adjustments before a car driver realizes it. The low position in a car is inferior in every way in normal traffic.
Safety is far superior especially when in an accident with sedans I’d rather be in a large heavy SUV any day.
Sure cars are better if you want to be a poser and live your Fast N Furious fantasies or if you want to drive the Nurburgring and set “sick” track times get a car. But for every day life in traffic get an SUV.
I’d say the fact that the majority of people are choosing the more expensive option of an SUV over cheaper cars in the current economy speaks to how bad cars are.
No… No… Whyyyy?
SUVs suck at being a sports car and suck at being a utility. Nobody actually needs an SUV, much less in Europe!
Good luck navigating a countryside village in that thing. Bloody morons.
I can only understand that they are great for older and/or overweight people who have trouble getting in and out of lower cars. They don’t need to be that large though
Stelvio is a pretty good sports car SUV thing.
What would you recommend then in the countryside for a family of 5 or more with ample snow in the winter and lots of gravel roads? That can accommodate taking the kids to soccer and to/from school no matter the road conditions? As well as be used to go ski and other car based vacations like going to a beach resort/camping for a week. All of the above being very normal requirements for a family car in at least the Nordics.
A normal station wagon type generally has too low ground clearance but there are exceptions like the cross country models of Volvos. They also only have 5 seats so they just barely fit the family with no additional friends tagging along, and very few can handle double child seats without dropping down to max 4 people. For older kids then yeah it works well, if you don’t need the ground clearance, and you can pack on the roof if the trunk isn’t big enough.
A large pickup truck has issues with being usable for the vacation stuff. Sure you can pack on the flatbed and there are “houses” to give it cover but it’s hardly smooth, and they’re even larger and more expensive than a SUV.
Since 2007 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population more people in the world live in urban areas rather than not. I’m not saying it is not your case and thus the question isn’t important to you. What I do want to highlight though is that, without any additional context, someone would be statistically right to assume that a complete stranger does live in a city, not on the countryside. Consequently while suggesting the use of SUV making suggestion first for urban population is what would have the most impact.
TL;DR: no idea, it’s not the majority of people and the trend or urbanisation worldwide is accelerating.
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Fight the good fight my brother in Christ. Lemmy users hate on anything that is practical and effective for “normies”.
A Honda fit is good enough for them and should be good enough to transport a family of 6 with 2 dogs as well…
Europeans are finally realizing the superiority of an SUV, something that Americans have known for decades now. They are voting with their wallet and leaving poorly designed cars behind.
Cars are uncomfortable to get into and out of. Low sitting positions are uncomfortable when compared to a more natural upright position in an SUV. They don’t have the ground clearance SUVs have when on marginal roads.
I’d argue that SUVs are far superior in normal traffic, the commanding height allowed the driver to see traffic patterns blocks ahead and make adjustments before a car driver realizes it. The low position in a car is inferior in every way in normal traffic.
Safety is far superior especially when in an accident with sedans I’d rather be in a large heavy SUV any day.
Sure cars are better if you want to be a poser and live your Fast N Furious fantasies or if you want to drive the Nurburgring and set “sick” track times get a car. But for every day life in traffic get an SUV.
You’re an idiot.
Go and search the web… Or watch a video like this one
I’d say the fact that the majority of people are choosing the more expensive option of an SUV over cheaper cars in the current economy speaks to how bad cars are.
I’d say it speaks volumes to how people are completely wrong.