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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
That's easy: car seats. Without having a very wide back seat, you can only fit two car seats in one row. With modern airbags, you're not allowed to put them in front. When we had our 4Runner, with our baby seat and child seat, you couldn't fit a human in-between. So with my wife and I and our two kids, we were full. With our SRX, we now have a 3rd row seat to haul my wife's siblings that like to visit us. Of course, that eliminates 90% of the cargo space, which causes new problems.
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Two perfect posts in a row. You are on a roll.
Also, we have a small SUV (S10 Blazer) and the gas mileage is not very much better than a full size. Even looking at the foreign small SUV's you are talking about a difference of 3-5mpg better than a full size especially with the displacement on demand now on the GM models. Why cram/pack my family into the smaller vehicle and fight to buckle the kids every time just because some enviropricks feel that full size vehicles are the problem?