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Trust me... If you've ever tried to cram a full size stand up bass, two very heavy bass speaker cabinets, an extremely heavy rack mount amp and pre amp, and my cranky old ass and personal gear into a sub compact, or a Prius, or a Civic, or whatever your miracle maxi mileage, mini car is, you'd have a mini van or a old Volvo wagon like I do, too... and you'd accept the not so bad 25 mpg (deductible at 50ยข a mile). There's more to "need" than vanity and 40 miles of bad road. As for public transit, or bicycles or whatever you utopian, vegi munchers are advocating to get to Starbucks in some urbanized, transited area, try catching the bus with the above equipment to... oh.... Cooke City, Montana, for instance.
Different strokes, etc...
While I agree that nonsense SUVs of old are useless dinosaurs for the most part, there are an awful lot of us, at least out west, who actually use and need bigger rigs for a whole variety of reasons.
