Why do people drive SUVs?

[madokie]

59. I think the best thing for you is to not drive one

nor own one but for some of us they are the perfect vehicle. Let me see if I can give you a few reasons why we have one.
Kids and Grand kids
Hauling materials to work on and around the house/place in
Easy to get into and out of for old people
Handles just fine if you ask me and I used to be a sports car nut in my younger days
Ours is a ford Explorer and so we've only spent about two hundred dollars on it since it was new in '98 for repairs.
Gets around 20 mpg puttering around here on short drives but since we don't drive much that really doesn't bother us much.
Did I mention it is easy for us old people to get into and out of, Oh yes I did
The last small car we had cost us way more money on repairs than the added cost that the fuel cost us in this one
Its paid for and has been for years so other than tires, an oil change once a year and about 50 bucks of fuel every three weeks or so its pretty cheap to operate
Insurance is cheap on it as the insurance companies see them as us less likely to be injured if we do get into an accident so they don't charge us as much.
Actually handles pretty good, has full time 4 wheel drive with 4 wheel anti-lock brakes that is super on wet or frozen roads. Ice and snow is not a problem for us and rain slicken roads aren't as treacherous either.
It hauls a lot of stuff that we seem to need to haul quit often and its easy for us old people to get into and out of, Oh I already listed that but anyway here it is again.
On the rare occasions that we travel any distance it is quite comfortable and gets pretty good gas mileage on those trips too as we're not stopping and taking off all the time so the gas mileage goes up appreciably
Very comfortable to ride in or drive and easy for us old people to get in and out of.
We never ask someone who drives an econobox why they torture themselves driving them as we feel its none of our business
Much of our traffic is big trucks and big pickups so our suv fits right in and we don't feel quite so threatened when we look in the rear view mirror and all you see if you're in an econobox is an 18 wheelers front bumper as we don't see that. We actually see much further up on the front of that big truck so its not quite as intimidating.
Very comfortable and easy for us old people to get in and out of.
We never just go driving for no reason at all other than to drive so we don't waste money on fuel just driving around. When we're driving around its because we have a purpose and most times its more than one purpose and many times we need the room that it provides us
Easy for us old people to get in and out of and is very comfortable to ride in, oops done said that.
Last but not least it is none and I repeat none of your bidness what we drive as long as we drive responsibly.
You want to drive in a little econobox, go for it. We don't.
Between our two vehicles we might drive 4000 miles in a year, I said might.
Peace and have a good evening
Oh since our tires are much bigger than the little econobox tires are they last a lot longer and don't cost all that much more to buy considering the cost of installing and balancing a tire is the same no matter the size of it
Actually when I was keeping track of the cost of driving, the SUV is cheaper in the long run than the small car we had for a few years before it was and the price of fuel has gone up three times since then.
Oh and its easy for us old people to get into and out of and its quite comfortable to ride in.
Peace and have a great evening

I'd like to add that it doesn't make up for any shortcomings as our sex life has nothing to do with our choice of vehicles. Actually Its quite enjoyable thank you