How can you actually call that an SUV? (I guess they got away with it for the X)
If it comfortably seats 7 adults and can actually haul that much cargo, without being a lumbering hulk of an actual vehicle, I'd say that's a feature.
Admittedly some people want to drive a lumbering hulk of a vehicle down to their local elementary school or shopping mall, but perhaps they have to stick with ICE for now.
I'm sure my parents' Caprice station wagon had more volume. That's also not an SUV.
But car categories are definitely blurring these days. A lot of so-called SUVs just look like cars with the roof bulged up a few inches and a juice to the ride height. It's weird. The BMW X6 is an ugly abomination in my book ("let's take a car, and just... inflate it a bit, yeah?")
the back may not be as spacious in as one would expect.
That's the kind of overlay I would want to see.
The X and Y are well into crossover territory, they aren’t minibuses or SUVs.
Take a look at the Jaguar I-Pace. I think it is a particularly odd classification of SUV.
So I put off buying another Subaru and am looking closely at the model Y.