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Comment by samfisher83 | Hacker News Reader

Suv sales are going up. It's just people don't like sedans. I think title is a little misleading.

That probably has something to do with automakers spending the past decade teaching us that we should like SUV's.

The word “car” is really fun. It can mean “sedan” or “personal passenger road vehicle” depending or what kind of point you want to make.

I've read somewhere that SUV attracted people because they were in an easier emission category, which meant they appear cheaper for the size.

Sedans are also less desirable as more and more people drive SUVs -- it makes it hard to see traffic and it's more dangerous when you are the lowest person on the road.

Nah, low center of gravity with nimble handling is better. I'll take an all wheel drive S4, ATS, C class or 3 series over an SUV any snowy day. Sport sedans have swagger too, the only swaggerific SUVs are the Escalade, Cullinan, Urus, Porsche SUVs. But those are out of the price range most of humanity can afford to buy within. I have never had a problem seeing traffic.

> I'll take an all wheel drive S4, ATS, C class or 3 series over an SUV any snowy day

I hope you're putting on the correct type of tires for snowy days. A lot of those models come with summer/performance tires which are incompatible with snow. For my S4, I have a set of Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires that I use during the winter months.

I had an awd ats with blizzak all around. It handled the snow better than any suv I'd been in.

Driving absolutely is an arms race. I wonder what engineering would come up with if they started with a premise of 2 seats, back to front, centered, and with an eye towards safety against large vehicles.

Also parking spot...

So fun

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