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there was a documentary I saw about a year ago that was very enlightening as to the popularity of SUV's. It wasn't even a car documentary - it was about how corporations can, with enough money, get the government to do damn near anything. Turns out when compact cars threatened to take over the market, and therefore reduce profits since no one's gonna pay as much for a Civic as they would for a DeVille, the American auto industry got the government to endorse some bullshit studies that said small cars are horribly unsafe. There were even PSA's run that encouraged people to be careful about buying a small car due to the supposed danger.
People took that idea to its logical conclusion that the bigger the car, the safer it is. That's one reason this idiotic myth that SUV's are so much safer than cars is around today.
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