Why do people drive SUVs?

[Ikonoklast]

280. I have a '96 Suburban with the two rows of back seats removed.

4000 lbs. is the max towing capacity for that year in a 2WD configuration.

I took out all the passenger seats except the front two, you'd be amazed how much stuff I can cram into that bus.

The problem is when a poster assumes that the SUV was purchased as some sort of status symbol because they happened to see a 'tiny woman' all by herself driving one day.

She also may have been going to pick up half the soccer team which would have taken two vehicles otherwise.

She may have also have a disabled child in a wheelchair, like the couple three doors down from me that has an Expedition, along three other children.

People buy what they want to buy, and not always the minimum of what they actually need to buy.

That's freedom of choice, and I'll never tell anyone else how to spend their money, whether I agree with their choices or not is immaterial.

It isn't my money, I didn't earn it.