I hate SUVs.
The disadvantages of a sedan in conjunction with the disadvantages of an off-road.
SUVs in Spain are used by mothers when they go to school to pick up their kids. Useless vehicles.
i.e. BMW X5 vs Lada Niva:
The disadvantages of a sedan in conjunction with the disadvantages of an off-road.
SUVs in Spain are used by mothers when they go to school to pick up their kids. Useless vehicles.
i.e. BMW X5 vs Lada Niva:
I'm curious. Do you have kids? A few years ago I might have said the same thing as you, but with a car seat and pee-diapers in the back seat,[1] I'm really feeling the need for more room than I have in my 3-series.
[1] That in addition to being stuck in suburban Philadelphia hell.
You're already lucky. My experience is that many SUV owner just use them to go alone to work in city's center.
I'm not against SUVs (or big cars, in general), they're just overkill for many people that still buy them for the "cool" factor.
That's exactly my point.
You can add to my point that in Spain also, it has to be diesel (even if you are going to do only around 1000 miles a year).
SUVs ARE safer in front crashes.. but they're otherwise no safer than a car of equal price, which are usually way more fuel efficient (US cars in general are not fuel efficient at all).
It is also true that the least safe cars are all small cars, but that's more correlated with price than with size - an Audi A4 is considered a midsize car by US standards, yet it's one of the safest cars around.
Sources:
http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4204.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_sport_utility_vehi...
www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/suvs-are-safer-than-cars-in-front-crashes-but-there-is-more-to-the-story/index.htm
Also, I work for an insurance company and hear lots of myths.