Current crop of SUV'S
Why do they call them SUV'S when then vast majority of them are glorified station wagons? To me a SUV is a truck based full frame vehicle. Got to love marketing.
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Groover wrote:colliehauler wrote:
Why do they call them SUV'S when then vast majority of them are glorified station wagons? To me a SUV is a truck based full frame vehicle. Got to love marketing.
Simple-SUV's sell, station wagons don't.
I used to have a Taurus station wagon and loved it but Ford couldn't sell those. Make a similar vehicle with a sexier name and it sells like crazy. Kind of like Chrysler couldn't sell Volare's but put a few hundred dollars worth of bling on it, raised the price $10,000, called it a 5th Avenue then and couldn't make enough of them. It is often about vanity.
Maybe back in the day there were rvnet members sending carrier pigeon messages back and forth you know 1960s email.....saying
"Listen to this marketing cr@p...Station Wagon? Earl, that's just a carryall with a fancy name and looky there, it don't even have the springs of my pickemup truck. Useless, never will go over!"
