• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    What’s an SUV though because the industry has a lot of cars they call SUVs and quite a lot and don’t look remotely like each other.

    I have an SUV from 2015 and the Volvo XC90 dwarfs it despite it apparently not been an SUV, so how does that work?

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      6 days ago

      Volvo XC90

      I searched this and Volvo’s page for it calls it a “Large mild hybrid SUV”. Here’s a Volvo XC90 compared to a BMW X1 from 2011-2015. It would seem that SUVs have been increasing in size …

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        6 days ago

        Yeah essentially at this point what I own easy effectively a large car and not an SUV. The term effectively being rendered irrelevant by car manufacturer. At this point it means any vehicle that is not a hatchback.