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"It is my opinion that the SUV or, as it is sometimes referred to, Large Engine Vehicle, which does so well in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to the various product lines within Vietnam"
Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114784170652465525
@groet and American SUVs would break an axle or drive shaft or get stuck in the mud puddles on the rural roads. SUVs are really impractical unless you build your whole infrastructure around them. @Davriellelouna
...what? Being good off-road, or on bad roads, is [supposed to be] the entire point of SUVs.
@grue yep, I'm mad about SUVs too! I think everyone should be. They're also way more dangerous for the people around them as well as being bad at the purposes they're advertised for.
I often say that if I decide it's okay to be a terrible person and I want to harm the people around me and punish and increase costs to my government I'll buy an SUV.
I mean, I own an old SUV myself (a real one, that I got specifically for off-roading and backcountry camping). I'm just not so anti-social as to daily-drive it in the city.
Those car-based junk things are actually called "crossover SUVs", but the manufacturers are now just calling them SUVs, at least where I'm from.
I refuse to call anything without a proper transfer case an SUV personally. Hell, even the German luxury SUV barges at least have transfer cases with electronic locking of some sort. But plenty of crossovers have open center diffs with only traction control to facilitate "locking" it.
They're just a classification meant to evade certain regulations to sell worse cars based on a few metrics regarding things like clearance. Given the point is to avoid having to make a decent car...
@grue yeah, so the commercials say. The ones I've driven haven't been particularly better than sedans except higher clearance.. making them more likely to rollover or break axles instead of scrape oil pans.
A truck maybe. Most SUVs are just big chunky road cars.