for utilitarian purposes, like the guy was quoted "it gets the job done", but for soccer moms and their SUV looks are important.

Safety should be even more important than both, but it obviously isn't since only the USPS trucks have a pedestrian safe design.

Vehicle choice is probably much more of a personal-identity / status thing for the soccer-mom.

To riff off of a Bujold quote about uniforms: "Fleet vehicles are always correct, or, if not exactly correct, clearly not the driver's fault, since they have no choice."

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