Well you are right many other cars are terrible as well, buit SUVs are by far the worst. Most of the time uneccesarily. Car engineers could do a much better job designing them. I think it's also crucial to point out that it's completely un-neccesary to use a SUV with no passengers to go down to the store and s*** like that.
I don't really get your point of course the price depends on how often you drive it but SUVs cost way more per mile.
I don't think I explained this right. For example, a Cadillac Escallade :puke will cost quite a lot of money. Way more than it is actually worth. What I'm saying is that you're not paying just for the car but you are paying just for the brandishing of the vehicle being an SUV.
An SUV is very apt to rolling over in emergency situations, so whether you are a good driver or not when you have to swerve to miss something you very well could roll.
Well in a head on collision the smaller car is absolutely screwed. Of course if every driver was safe we wouldn't have to worry quite as much. But there are many SUV drivers that think they are the king of the road putting huge risks on drivers of smaller and more economical vehicles.
SUVs take some of the risk out of their own drivers and put it in the hands of smart buying drivers.
-SUVs are used for many other things like towing and hauling but I believe for the most part they are not (soccer moms etc).
-Cars like Denalis, Escallades and Expeditions are designed and marketed towards people with too much money and too little brains.