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I would like to join in the stereotyping of SUV owners by offering my upstairs neighbour as a full on ticks all the boxes example . She is over weight as is her father who has an even bulkier 'Discovery' monster . She has a Range/Land rover thing parked in her allocated parking space which just happens to be 2 yards from from the door to my flat.
Its amusing how my visitors ( contractors/maintenance people etc ) assume its my car and how the nature and tone of a conversation changes once they discover its not.
It is tempting to string out the pretence though.
She also has a reputation with other neighbours for an aloof refusal to interact in any way with them.
not4sale
I'm sure I read somewhere that the original concept of SUVs was to appeal to "people who are not confident in their driving and want to be sure they come off best in an accident".
I also have a theory that a big part of the appeal of super-sized cars is so that overweight people* don't have to face how big they are.
The best way to reduce SUV use IMO is to for these two comments to go viral and become the received wisdom about SUV drivers.
(* I am overweight, these are my people)