Unfortunately that trend is going international as I see other countries also starting to buy up huuuuge SUVs etc.
My childhood in NZ was like, medium sized perfectly reasonable Japanese cars on the road, some small-ish (by American standards) utes where people needed to haul a month's worth of groceries back to the farm. Now everyone & their Mum is driving an SUV in the UK (where I'm living now) and this is made even more obscene by the narrow, historic roads here.
And you look at the inside of these plush, rounded range rovers designed not for crawling up a mountain but the urban commute and if you're lucky enough to spot one not being driven by a single occupant (also common), expecting ridiculous cargo and passenger space and...no, they've just somehow managed to fill the space with more nothing. 2-2.5 tonnes of nothing. A >3L engine to move your nothing around.
Even American friends of mine here agree & laugh at "oh v6/v8 is common and they're 3-7L and yet aren't really that efficient at making power".
My childhood in NZ was like, medium sized perfectly reasonable Japanese cars on the road, some small-ish (by American standards) utes where people needed to haul a month's worth of groceries back to the farm. Now everyone & their Mum is driving an SUV in the UK (where I'm living now) and this is made even more obscene by the narrow, historic roads here.
And you look at the inside of these plush, rounded range rovers designed not for crawling up a mountain but the urban commute and if you're lucky enough to spot one not being driven by a single occupant (also common), expecting ridiculous cargo and passenger space and...no, they've just somehow managed to fill the space with more nothing. 2-2.5 tonnes of nothing. A >3L engine to move your nothing around.
Even American friends of mine here agree & laugh at "oh v6/v8 is common and they're 3-7L and yet aren't really that efficient at making power".