Maggie's Farm

well said. Most people have no need for an SUV because they don't have a requirement for a car that size.
Take the single guy who commutes to work 5 days a week and in the weekend uses the car to get groceries.
He spends 95% of his time alone in the car with maybe a few grocery bags, that's it. Even a sedan is overkill for his requirements (not talking fashion here).

Myself, I bought a small VW. Easy to park, large enough for me and a few bags of groceries, and in case I do need to carry someone along, plenty of room for an extra adult and there's a rear seat for 2 more people but you lose a lot of the space for those groceries.

And honestly, that's what most anyone who doesn't have children needs. If you do have children and want to use the car for vacations where you need to carry luggage for the family, you want a somewhat larger car, but something like a Civic sedan or Mondeo is plenty for that as well.

SUV class vehicles really become something you logically should look at if you have 3-4 children and a couple of large dogs that need to go with you on that vacation.

of course. What you want and what you need are often 2 different things and there should indeed be no apportioning of things based on just what you need according to some agency.

But many people are buying SUVs and then complaining that the parking spots are too small, gas is too expensive for them to drive the thing, the maintenance cost or road taxes are too high.
To those people: you should have considered that before buying the bloody thing.