I used to live in NZ where big Utes and whatnot were relatively common. But in the cities people still generally drove city cars. You'd see Utes more often when you were close to the border between populated/rural. Sometimes in city/town if someone had come in to do some shopping.

Now that I live in London I see huge SUVs CONSTANTLY. And the pandemic made it worse! I started driving myself during the pandemic and picked up a little (BMW) Mini. When I first started, every car in our parking was your average kind of car. Now they're all SUVs, it's kind of funny to see the Mini nestled in between them; you can't even see it until you walk along the row of apartments on wheels and see if squeezed in between them.

If the mayor of London was smarter, they'd have banned new registrations for SUVs in London 10 years ago. But of course that would never happen, because £££. Nobody _needs_ an SUV in London. Nobody.

Hell, even the styling of these huge cars has changed from being rugged/practical to be used on a farm like the kind I grew up with, to being rounded/soft/comfortable designed and expected to be driven to the supermarket when instead they should be using a Fiat 500/Mini/Micra etc for that.