Reply #104: how do you arrive at this conclusion?

[blues90]

Do you think it was the people who came up with the idea of the SUV and the huge mega SUV's?

No these things are decided by the manufacturer after they fan out to see what they think will sell. Then they market it with a push to make these seem the norm and desirable.

There was a market for small cars in the mid 70's and they were produced then suddenly when the gas shortage vanished from the publics mind then along came the big three all geared up to bring back the high performance cars and SUV's which got larger in size when in fact no one needed these things.

The auto companies steer this not the people.

It became a race to see which one of the big three could build the largest SUV , even companies who never made trucks like mercury and Mercedes and Cadillac jumped into the competition.