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For sure. Fortunately where I live, its very residential so I don't come across too many of them when I am on a bicycle/can stay on quiet roads, but if I venture into the boonies literally everything is a big rig.
I agree - the Forester was a wagon until quite recently. My friend has a modern Forester and even that seems small compared the big American V8 type SUVs. I hadn't been to the UK in three years until this July just gone. The most immediately noticeable thing when I did return was how small vehicles seemed.
JB
Interesting perspective, I guess I didn't really think of the lexus. The Subaru forester comes to mind but for some reason I would give it a pass as acceptable, well, the first 2 generations.
The general traffic here in aus is the same. Dominated by large, but useless SUV's and then jacked up ford rangers, hiluxes, 79 series landcruisers. Range rovers, land rovers, more landcruisers... Giant V8 patrols etc etc. There's a particular trend that every 4x4 must be specced for the apocalypse and be at least 10" lifted over stock and rolling on a minimum of 33" muddies. Ridiculous doesn't cover it.
Driving a normal sized hatch is intimidating, let alone riding a bicycle!