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by xyst 813 days ago
Look at the “Market researching” section:

> “SUV buyers want to be able to take on street gangs with their vehicles and run them down”

This was in 2002 …

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebd0080238e863d04911...

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Fascinating. An interesting part of that document:

> The point of these explicit associations with violence was not to reflect a growing brutalisation of society, but to identify people the market researchers describe as “especially self-centred”.

Which would contradict my guess: They're actually going after self-centered buyers, not necessarily angry, belligerent ones.