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UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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What's an SUV though because the industry has a lot of cars they call SUVs and quite a lot and don't look remotely like each other.
I have an SUV from 2015 and the Volvo XC90 dwarfs it despite it apparently not been an SUV, so how does that work?
I searched this and Volvo's page for it calls it a "Large mild hybrid SUV". Here's a Volvo XC90 compared to a BMW X1 from 2011-2015. It would seem that SUVs have been increasing in size ...
Yeah essentially at this point what I own easy effectively a large car and not an SUV. The term effectively being rendered irrelevant by car manufacturer. At this point it means any vehicle that is not a hatchback.