What SUVs Reveal About the Erosion of American Society
SUV sales are up and social trust is down. Some researchers think that’s not a coincidence.
by Olga Khazan
Nov 30, 2017
3 minutes
Millennials don’t always buy cars. But when they do, they apparently buy SUVs.
“The floor at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show will look a lot like America's roads: full of SUVs,” the AP wrote this week. Car sales overall are actually slightly down this year, but SUV sales are up 6 percent.
The AP speculated that the boom in Wranglers and Explorers is the result of “a combination of
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