[AzNightmare]

Originally Posted by Akinari

You've got it backwards, at least from my perspective and from conversations I've had with non-car guys who own small crossovers.

Non-car people generally don't care as much about having a ton of cargo space as you'd think. It's the fact that, higher-riding cars give you this false sense of "safety" and a "commanding" view of the road. It's the whole, you're riding on top of the car vs riding in the car thing, it's totally opposite from what car people/enthusiasts generally care about.

In fact, many of them get for example, the CX-3 over a Mazda 3, even though the trunk of the former is smaller than the latter. Like for god's sake Mazda literally made a lifted Mazda 3 with plastic body cladding and I'm seeing so many of them on the road now, vs the new Mazda 3 which doesn't seem like it's doing too well compared to the previous generations. People like driving lifted cars, that's really what it is.

That's why you keep seeing these awkwardly lifted hatchback-like crossovers from every single manufacturer around the world (CX3, CX30, HR-V, C-HR, GLA, Q3, X2/X1, etc. etc.), and they're selling like hotcakes because your mom and your aunt and her daughter and her daughter's 10 girlfriends and their non-car boyfriends all like these "safe" crossovers.

It's also cause crossovers offer AWD when many sedans don't. Every mom and aunt is convinced AWD is better for safety in the winter, even though they're still running all seasons. That kind of false sense of security is what's going to cause an accident when they realize their AWD doesn't help them stop any faster.