Neil Briscoe
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879 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Probably will.
Thank you.
Good morning, David.
okay we're going with the easy questions first right um there there is there is actually no different definition of an suv it's it is it is the it's the classic thing of you know when you see it yeah uh car manufacturers have cottoned on certainly and particularly since the mid-2000s launch of the original nissan qashqai to the idea that people are keen on having taller higher riding vehicles
that certainly give off the appearance of being more practical than your average family hatchback saloon or estate but that actually in fact aren't necessarily so but it's a fashion that caught on and and frankly caught fire and you know in a few short years we've gone from 12 of car sales across europe being what would what would be categorized as suvs to more like 56 wow
But even within that, there are small SUVs, big SUVs, crossovers, things that are halfway houses.
There is no one definition.
It certainly seems to be.
And I do think that's significant because obviously the US is where the SUV craze first began.
And it's, you know, for many, many decades, the best selling vehicle, not strictly car, in the US has been the Ford F-150 pickup.
And this image of a tall, rugged, outdoorsy vehicle is what, it's just hugely appealing to people, even if actually your daily driver's
Driving is just, you know, bumbling around town and going to the shops and dropping the kids at school.
And that's why SUVs have become so popular.
But yes, there does seem to be a bit of an uptick in sales of much more conventional, well, what we might think of as conventional, four-door saloons like the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord.
There's a huge number of factors driving it.
Yes, definitely.
I think fuel economy is partially driving it because there is just mathematically, physically, there is no getting away from the fact that SUVs are thirstier than their four-door saloon counterparts because they're taller and they're generally heavier too.
But actually, I think there's a much bigger and more fundamental shift going on, which is that kids don't want to buy the cars their parents had.
And I think we're seeing some of that fashionability factor start to play out.
And the fact now that everybody has an SUV, people are now starting to look for something.
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