Just don’t get one secondhand after its been given a good thrashing.
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I haven’t seen string backed gloves since I was a teenager and I am sure it was a fashion faux pas even then 
Go-fast cloves: an in-joke at AUTO FAST MAGAZINE
Hi all, what is it now some 20 months on, only done 11,000 miles so far, up and down the motorway to Derbyshire now and again, 50mpg, there’s better out there no doubt, but it suits us.
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According to the radio this morning this is the biggest selling vehicle in Australia and has been for the last seven years. it’s a Toyota HiLux four door ute, 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder with 6 speed auto.
A “car” makes up only 30% of the new car market with Utes and SUVs making up 70%.
Personally I have something similar but a now 8 year old Isuzu Dmax
I don’t know about Utes but SUVs are hugely popular un the UK, that’s because manufacturers, dealers, journalists & advertisers, call most cars SUVs nowadays. Having said that, the Crossover word is taking over, (why does that always make me think of Crossdresser?)
My motor is classed as a SUV, My reason for buying it was that it’s higher than a car and Mrs Fox and me find difficult to get in and out of a car, a bit too low. We are not as ‘bendy’ as we used to be. I also like to sit higher to view the road ahead and I got used to driving vans and trucks as a courier…
Oh, and I can get my bike in the back and ‘long things’…
I’ve never seen the Evoque and the two Skodas classed as small SUVs but it changes with the cars on offer.
I was about to remark the same as @Dachs. I don’t think any of those so called SUVs have a chassis so can’t really be classified as an SUV, I think you would describe them as hatchbacks here. To be an SUV it needs to be able to cope with rough terrain, those cars are really only suited to bitumen and perhaps a graded dirt road.
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The car market is way more complex and diversified and car categories also change with region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_classification
No wonder that we may be puzzled as to how a car is classified. Capabilities like a genuine cross-country mobility are not really expected in smaller SUVs and wouldn’t really be used anyway since those cars are more of an urban lifestyle vehicle than off-road cars and pickups. This is exemplified by the under-ride guard which is only a decorative element with small SUVs.