SUVs of their car counterparts drive like shit. Sure the Porche SUV drives nice, but the 911 drives wayyyy better. I'd take a wagon over an suv and just use snow tires when needed.
It's been tested that an suv with regular tires and AWD can't perform as well as a 2WD version with snow tires. With All seasons the snow performance is marginally better than snow tires.
Right, I disagree with the premise of this meme that things were better before, they weren't. But nowadays you do have options and we have better awareness so if you're still making those dumb decisions like buying SUVs, that's worse in a sense.
The distinction is really not difficult. And I’ll tell you why: if a car manufacturer classifies a vehicle as an SUV, they can skirt around safety and pollution regulations.
That's exactly it. They got marketed like crazy right before tougher emissions regulations came in around 2008 because they are classified as trucks and not cars. Anyone know if the truck emissions ever got restricted any after that time frame?