The Attraction of an SUV

[T4tomo]

The driving position is better, as is leg room as it allows for a higher seat.

The thing I hate about SuVs is the high seat. I'd rather be sat low in my practical load lugging estate than higher in an SUV.
That's said Mrs T loves her Qashqai

 

[Drago]

I like my van. High seat without the SUV blind spot agphead of the bonnet.

 

[MadMalx]

The term SUV is branded about too much. The Aygo X is called a SUV, as is the Yaris X.

PS don't get a Yaris X, get a Yaris, why, the rear foot room in a Yaris X is pitiful, I struggled to get out of both my SIL's cars, and one SIL is 'short', so the seat is far forward.

My elderly FiL says the X (front passenger) is much easier to get in & out of than the Yaris every time he gets in. The diminutive Mrs MM is happy enough in the back, as is the 6ft MM, if she’s driving.
I’m not wild about the Yaris x though, preferred my Skoda estate. Cars aren’t my thing anyway, I do more miles on my bike.

 

[mjr]

I like my van. High seat without the SUV blind spot agphead of the bonnet.

Since when has a high chair been a thing to aspire to? That's for mucky truckers. Cool cars are sleek and low.

SUV carspreading is for the, ahem, larger person. Don't get one if you still fit in a regular car seat! 😉

 

[Drago]

Im 6'4" with 35 1/2 inch inside leg. The high seating position gives me dedent leg space and means its one of the few vehicles I'm truly comfortable in that isn't an SUV. Lifes a lot easier for you normies.

 

[katiewlx]

Since when has a high chair been a thing to aspire to? That's for mucky truckers. Cool cars are sleek and low.

SUV carspreading is for the, ahem, larger person. Don't get one if you still fit in a regular car seat! 😉

fitting isnt necessarily the problem as you get older it just gets harder to get into or out of lower seat cars, there have been times Ive had lifts in Audi TTs or Jag Ftypes where Ive basically had to put one leg in and then try to flop unceremoniously to get in because theyre bucket seats and you cant scooch your rear in first, and then getting out is nearly rolling over and crawling out on my hands and knees, not the greatest way to make an entrance I can say that much.

So thats when a car with a high chair becomes aspirational, plus the feeling you have better overall vision of the road situation in front of you, which is debateable but it gives you that confidence driving regardless, and the feeling its safer, again debateable but you are that step further removed from things, so its all a psychological boost.

and they are getting bigger/wider, as I encountered a few on the road over the weekend, on minor roads for sure but theyd have easily coped with two way traffic 30 years ago say in the mid 90s. And there were two SUVs, I think one was a Range Rover and one the Chinese copy, and they literally had to stop because there wasnt enough room for them both to pass at anything but crawling speed, and Ive never seen that happen before on a road that looked more than wide enough to support two normal sized vehicles side by side.

fwiw I dont mind that the term SUV encompasses alot of vehicles that technically arent SUVs, we used to call alot of cars hot hatches that were nothing of the kind either, but we all tended to know roughly the type of cars we meant.

 

[Drago]

To be fair, theres a similar junction near here and cars of all description cut the corner stupidly, often at speed. Its not something exclusive to SUVs.