Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax
by ghaff on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:09PM
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Quite a few of my whitewater paddling friends--who often have to shuttle people--prefer minivans over 3-row SUVs but, as you say, minvans have largely been replaced by SUVs which are IMO not really ideal if you regularly fill up the seats. (Even the best/biggest ones I've been in still require something of a do si do between people in the second and the third row.)
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It’s especially hard to find a nine seat SUV anymore - I don’t know if any offhand with a bench front seat.
The Kia Carnival seats 11 in Asia …
I suspect that, in the US, there's a pretty strong bias to maximizing the comfort for the first and second person rather than being able to squeeze one more passenger in.
Exactly this. All vehicles are sold to people who buy new vehicles and that cohort is more alike than they’d like to admit.
Commercial vehicles still have some variation because the purchaser is not the driver.