Mine's Bigger Than Yours
Malcolm Gladwell's sensible, even-handed
New Yorker article on SUVs doesn't tell me much that I already knew, but it's good reading nonetheless. It basically says that SUVs have been successful at selling the illusion of safety and appealing to consumers' sense of vanity and entitlement. (via
Max, who summarizes these things better than I do)
Posted by mhinrichs at February 23, 2004 07:37 PM