New SUVs

[johnh875]

IMO it is cars reverting to the form factor they had before the whole "longer, lower, wider" thing happened. This includes ground clearance as a reaction to cars getting ever-lower since the 1980s, especially with longer noses for crash safety in more recent years.

Development has meant that there is little penalty in terms of fuel consumption; much less than the influence of the driver, or handling/roadholding which is becoming less important as congestion and speed enforcement increase.

I would suspect in the fatal Berlin pedestrian crash it is irrelevant that it was a Macan involved, but any vehicle would have had the same outcome. Pedestrian death rates are more likely to be influenced by distraction (both driver and pedestrian); here in Melbourne there has been a 50% in trams colliding with pedestrians in the last 5 years, it seems they often walk straight in front of oncoming trams.