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by throw0101b 1145 days ago
> massive (literally by mass, not volume)

As a Gen-Xer I used borrow my parents' minivan quite often when I was young, and I could easily/regularly fit 6-7 people in that comfortably. For all their size, a lot the SUVs nowadays cannot accomplish that.

Why are these SUVs so big? What is their size going towards?

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Suspension, leg room, boot space and also safety the Minivan that you used to borrow in the 90’s was built quite differently.
A minivan is still more practical. They’re just not “cool”.