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Originally Posted by Cd
Did ypu watch the entire video ?
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I didn't even started watching it. Will do it later.
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Once you get past the clickbait title, there are some very good points.
He's not saying that no-one should drive SUVs, but rather he is pointing out how the auto industry has duped the American public into thinking that they NEED an SUV because minivans and stationwagons are for "losers", despite the station wagons and minivans having the same, if not more, interior room.
And it's all so the auto industry makes a higher profit / are able to skirt around emmissions standards than if they sold station wagons and minivans.
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It's also happening in other countries, including Brazil, yet smaller trucks and SUVs often FWD-only tend to prevail. BTW I saw a 3rd-generation Chevrolet Montana for the first time this Wednesday. Truth be told, even though it has a turbocharged engine (almost the same of the entry-level versions of the US-spec Trailblazer, but still with port-injection instead of direct injection), I would be quite skeptical if someone could tell me 10 years ago it could use such a small engine. Also surprising to me was to find out the 2nd-generation Fiat Strada, with the 1.4L Fire and 1.3L (non-turbo) GSE engines, has almost the same size of a mid-'90s Chevrolet S-10.