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    Jan 03, 2021 5 minutes

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    LETTER OF THE MONTH

    Manufacturers just need make it look vaguely off-road capable and start telling us it’s an SUV

    SMOKE AND MIRRORS

    I’VE BEEN PONDERING SUVs of late. We keep being told that we’re buying more and more of them. Perhaps we even see this with our own eyes, increasing numbers of SUVs on the road and fewer conventional passenger cars. But can our own eyes be trusted? Are there really more SUVs on the road or are we being unwittingly influenced by marketing and the subtleties of vehicle design?

    As I began to

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