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SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe (www.motor1.com)

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[–] Etnaphele 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I despise this SUV trend, too, but isn’t it a bit extreme to judge a person just by the car they drive? The majority of people don’t even think about it and the market is flooded with these things, so they have less and less choice. There are cases where SUVs make sense, in mountainous regions and where it snows a lot, but I agree that space has to be better used and public space respected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's the "they don't even think about it" part that makes me feel this way.

With cars, it just leads to wasted space and resources.

Working in a hospital, that same thinking leads to Dialysis, Metabolic Disease and amputations. I see it multiple times per day.

Often intelligent people, but acting moronic. Not using their intelligence. That's quite apparent in SUVs. They cost a fortune, so it's usually not stupidity. It's just them being mindless. And without a second thought about others.

I stand by my choice of words.

Sometimes, yeah, an SUV makes sense. Then again, driving it into a congested city, that doesn't make sense.

If I saw someone driving it through a mountainous region, I wouldn't say anything. That's fine. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

While the vehicles that make sense in those regions might be in the SUV segment, these city-SUVs we are mocking here would be a sub-par choice, imo.