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Originally Posted by timun
I don't disagree with your point, but you're making a bit of a disingenuous comparison here. It's not as though we don't consider the Escalade to be a "behemoth" vehicle: we do. And we always have, since it was introduced. The Suburban(/Tahoe) it's based on was always one of the biggest vehicles available to "personal" consumers, and we've always thought they were very, very big.
What has changed is not the absolute extremes of the sizes of vehicles, but the average. It's people driving RAV4s and Highlanders instead of Corollas and Camrys that has changed quite substantially. Escalades and the like have been around for a long time, and yes they are getting somewhat larger, but the real shift is that the average car form isn't a sedan or a wagon anymore.
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That's a very good point. On top of the average vehicle size getting bigger, the hood heights keep going up with ever generation. Unfortunately that site doesn't have an older model Suburban, but here's an older Tahoe vs. the current one:
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/com...ahoe-2020-suv/