In Not just Bikes video on the subject, they’ve demonstrated that the utility portion of small trucks/ SUVs have been getting weaker over time, and yet people still buy them.
Who said it’s unessasary? You? Speak for your own needs. What about the utility part? Where are you putting large bulky items? How aboutany bags of top soil? Trash going to a dump maybe?
It’s amazing how pathetically ignorant you are.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How often do you carry large bulky items that you specifically need an SUV for? Because I’m pretty certain the justification you use happens maybe 4 times a year.
random65837@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Constantly, kids, all the shit that comes along with them, groceries, home improvement store runs. Are you in the US? I don’t think you grasp what (today) Small SUV/CUVs are. Theres also no need for “justification”. They get better MPG and put out less on the emissions side than the normal cars did before them, there’s no rational argument against them. Just people that like to cry.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You can fit a dog, 1 child, 1 toddler, a stroller and 3-4 bags of groceries and have space over for “kid shit” in one VW Passat which is the US equivalent of a mid-size vehicle. The idea that you NEED an SUV for kids, kid shit and groceries is just false. And it’s not like you’re doing home improvement store runs while all the before-mentioned people/things in the car which means those can also just as easily fit.
As for “they get better MPG” feel free to show me the SUV that has this exceptional mileage that has similar spec sedans beaten.
random65837@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LOL, do you think we don’t have VW Passats in the US? And again with justification. Her SUV gets great MPG, even for a “car” and gives us room do actually do things comfortably, not shit smashed against the windows. You Eurpoeans just clearly like to be cramped everywhere you go, your apartments, your cars, your alley ways that you call streets, your little dorm fridges that are supposed to hold enough food for a family somehow. No thanks. I don’t have to “justify” anything, nor do we need to buy clown cars to make cry babies happy. If SUVs of today got 10mpg like the originals, there could be an argument, that’s long gone.
Also, 3-4 bags of groceries? You must use that NEED with your eating as well, just enough to not die huh?
bigschnitz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google pedestrian deaths by SUVs compared to conventional sedans. To say there is no rational argument against the SUV trend is laughably ignorant.
It also confuses me why yanks keep pretending small SUVs have more space than conventional station wagons. Unless you’re going full Yankee and think a 7 seater is “small”…
random65837@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ahahahahaha, fucking station wagon? Seriously? Sorry, the 1980’s are long gone.
The ridiculous arguments here are priceless. Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, and spoons make people fat right? Why blame the person behind the wheel, when you can blame the tool right? Personal responsibility? What’s that?
I’m seriously questioning at this point if you people even grasp what a CUV is, because that’s the overwhelming majority herez not the SUVs of 15yrs ago. I for your sake, I hope station wagon means something else there as well. NOBODY wants to be caught dead in a fucking station wagon