Vanity, vanity, thy name is vanity. The truth is, we look good in SUVs. And we know it. In an SUV, everyone else is conscious of it too. High gas prices be damned, sport utility vehicles are here to stay.
Many automakers already have prototypes in development.
True, you'll lose some juice in the powerplant, but you'll pick up extra miles per gallon and look good doing it. There's another advantage in the current SUV market glut. With inventories running extremely high across the board, it's a buyer's market. Rebates and low-cost financing rule the day. Ford, in particular, finds itself stocked to the gills with its best-selling Explorer.