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The opposite is true, really. You see tons of (big) SUVs which you did not see as much, say, 10 years ago.

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It's not black-and-white.

Most SUVs around there aren't based on trucks or minivans.

Over the last decade or so people are increasingly preferring SUVs.

Most of these are soft-roaders, and not trucks or minivans. They aren't very capable off the road. Some of them aren't even 4/AWD, and most are monocoques and not body-on-frames.