{"id":362,"date":"2003-09-20T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-20T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blogtest\/2003\/09\/20\/can-suvs-remain-fashionable-when-on"},"modified":"2003-09-20T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-20T20:28:00","slug":"can-suvs-remain-fashionable-when-only-unfashionable-people-drive-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/20\/can-suvs-remain-fashionable-when-only-unfashionable-people-drive-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Can SUVs remain fashionable when only unfashionable people drive them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1763'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Speaking of SUVs&#8230; (see below), at a recent gathering in suburban New Jersey I noticed that nearly everyone else had arrived in an SUV.&nbsp; The drivers were overwhelmingly middle-aged married suburbanites with children.&nbsp; When one encounters a young, good-looking, city-dweller the chances are very high that he or she will be driving an inexpensive compact car of some sort.&nbsp; If you see an SUV in the distance but can&#8217;t see the occupants because the glass is too heavily tinted, chances are that it is 35-year-old mom and two kids.&nbsp; A Suburu sedan, by contrast, is often occupied by a young single urbanite.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>How much longer can the popularity of SUVs continue?&nbsp; Many of the drivers are getting so old that their fragile bones really can&#8217;t handle the stiff suspension and harsh ride over bumps (my 40th birthday is in a week and whenever I&#8217;m picked up from the airport in a BMW X5 or similar I can&#8217;t believe how little isolation is provided from potholes, etc.; it is actually more jarring than landing the DA40 at 67 knots).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So how is it&nbsp;that SUVs remain in fashion when 99% of the owners of SUVs are unfashionable?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of SUVs&#8230; (see below), at a recent gathering in suburban New Jersey I noticed that nearly everyone else had arrived in an SUV.&nbsp; The drivers were overwhelmingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fromtheoldserver"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can SUVs remain fashionable when only unfashionable people drive them? 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