Case in point: the Lexus RX300 now re-dubbed the RX330 probably the first true higher-end crossover SUV (car- not truck-based).
We hopped into a Cadillac SRX which is their answer to the SUV cars that you see around.
The number of large SUVs and pickups has grown over the past two decades, as has the number of SUV-car collisions.
And to be fair, along with tail fins and tank-like SUVs, cars have gotten safer over the years -- a ten-fold reduction per mile driven since 1937.
The U.N.'s Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that meat production produces more greenhouse gasses than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined.
The reason the SUV-versus-car data is reported on a per-car basis is that NHTSA uses data from the Federal Highway Administration, which registered vehicles, but not vehicle miles, traveled.
Maybe one day people will give up their SUVs for cars.
After having driven 100-plus SUVs, wagons, cars and trucks over the past year, this small handful rise above the rest for being excellent at the mission their makers set out to complete.
Acura sales are up a tad, but only on sales of the hot MDX SUV; otherwise, its car sales are off 17%.
Byton's Concept electric SUV is a car with a lot of interesting tech features, aside from its all-electric drive train.
