Ok, so you refute some of my possibilities. Do you have any idea why we don't have them? If it is true that customers want them or it is recognized that they would want them, and their are no impediments in law to selling them then surely there are enough salesmen out their to figure it out and sell them.
Low C.A.F.E. standards and huge advertising budgets, plus obscenely high profit margins on SUVs. Add in cheap gas. It's all marketing--the macho thing--no more wimpy station wagons, no more wimpy minivans, no wimpy little cars, ads during football games. It works.
I have quite a few friends whose husbands bought monster 4x4s and left them home for the ladies to go to the supermarket and sports practice. My neighbor has a white Hummer that is always sparkling clean--no mud. She takes the kiddies to school in it.
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