India, Jan. 3 -- In the past decade, the SUV has gone from surviving on the fringes to becoming the only kind of vehicle keeping the mainstream afloat.
Sure, the visionaries are building electric cars, and the futurists are working on autonomous pods, but the only types of vehicles that are actually selling in large numbers are SUVs. What was once seen as a vehicle suited mainly for rock crawling has become the favourite for the daily commute.
You could argue that the commute in our country is genuinely an obstacle course, given the state of our roads - or lack thereof - but that doesn't account for the global sales tsunami heralded by the SUV, so-much-so that even the likes of Porsche, Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini and ...