Speaking of nonsporty cars, since my wife expressed interest in a small SUV, I've been more noticing how prevalent they are, especially on our last trip. It seemed every other vehicle was a RAV4 or CRV or Ford Escape or Hyundai Tuscon ...
I get why they are popular. I think. I once had a RAV 4 as a rental whilst my car was being repaired from damage. I thought it was junk at the time, probably 2008 or so. I owned a used CRV for a time, gave it to my kids in college and a friend ruined it. I could have had him arrested.
Anyway. The CRV was boring and got poor gas mileage, it was a 5 speed at least. It was also slow. My minivan was much larger of course and got better has mileage and was about the same to drive. I'm sure the new ones are much better, but they are so prevalent, I had never really noticed before.
I saw one Ford Flex which makes some sense to me, I know someone here has one.