The number of close calls with the drivers of these vehicles is way too high. Doesn’t help state DMVs basically hand out licenses to anybody that can pass these useless tests.
Hope the entire industry comes crashing down tbh.
> “SUV buyers want to be able to take on street gangs with their vehicles and run them down”
This was in 2002 …
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebd0080238e863d04911...
> The point of these explicit associations with violence was not to reflect a growing brutalisation of society, but to identify people the market researchers describe as “especially self-centred”.
Which would contradict my guess: They're actually going after self-centered buyers, not necessarily angry, belligerent ones.
And I’m confident that the vast majority of drivers in these own them for non-utility purposes