Part of it is that in flyover states, space is not at a premium except in the very heart of urban areas. So the thinking is, “if we can afford it, why not get the largest vehicle?” One doesn’t have to worry about parking an F-150, Grand Caravan, or Tahoe anywhere, or if it’ll fit down this side street.

Because the “lowered built Voyager” is such a consumer-friendly automobile.

There’s more than just the two extremes. I’d like a smallish (but not cramped) living space or loft attached to a massive, well-lit shop.

A minivan is better at carrying passengers, but because of the increasing size of child seats from 1984 to today, they’ve gone from being roughly midsize vehicles to full-size vehicles (78" wide with 120" WB), with no compact or midsize versions. CUVs offer a tall minivanish body in more than just the one size. 

It’s all a matter of where the buyer was coming from before. In the SUV boom of the mid-‘00s, thousands of drivers had truck-based Explorers, Trailblazers, etc. that had MPG figures in the mid-teens at best, and they weren’t using the truck’s towing and off-roading abilities but a few times, if at all. For those…

SUVs are a pointless compromise?

If we’re gonna argue from “needs,” no one “needs” any more car than a Trabant or a Model T.

There is nothing inherently wrong with SUVs or CUVs. Fite me

It’s been done on earlier Wrangler models.

You may have been the only one in the first place.

Doesn’t the JK Unlimited also have this “dead window”?

Yes. Even though the majority of Wranglers sold today are Unlimiteds (even among the hardcord buyers), the 2-door SUV market is otherwise dead, and 2-door SUVs are in most cases less useful day-to-day than 4-doors IMO, I hope that the 2-door Jeep is around forever.

Exactly this. People complain about all the creases in bodywork in new cars, but it seems sometimes they don’t realize that these are necessary to make the thinner metal stronger. Corrugated cardboard is stronger than non-corrugated cardboard.

the EPA approved RAM truck

>Interestingly, the frames were exactly the same thickness and strength between 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton

Is it a K20?

I see at least one unibody F-100. It’s okay, we still love you, even if some would like to pretend you never existed.

How did I not know about the Ford Frontenac?! Somebody needs to find one and have Mr. Regular review it.

-1 for clickbait title. Also, a car wash uses less water than handwashing.

My stance on CUVs is probably different than most of the commentariat here (that is to say, I usually like CUVs, or at least don’t hate them), but I do think Chevy should also bring over the Colorado-based Trailblazer midsize SUV currently sold worldwide. Especially if Ford’s gonna make a Bronco based on the Ranger,…