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I don't notice crossovers on the road.  It's possible I just filter them out because they all look pretty ugly to me.  

We don't see as many minivans as we used to.  Mom's drive crossovers now.

The only time I see minivans is at the Enterprise Rent-a-Car at the El Paso Airport.  They must've bought all of Dodge's Caravans.

crossovers/suvs are glorified minivans
I lump them all into the minivan category

if it's the equivalent of a Tahoe or Suburban with a V8 it's a truck

My minivan is a great big leather clad space that allows human beings (or a fantastically large canine) to travel in comfort down paved roads.

It's also one huge agglomeration of blind spots.

Even though there's glass all around, it seems the pillars are strategically placed to limit the view of anyone driving on the rear quarter panel. When the back bench seat is completely occupied, the rearview mirror just shows faces. It gets worse when the sun shade nettings are pulled up for the passenger windows.

It isn't impressive. It isn't sexy. It doesn't turn heads. It does allow me to usher around people and stuff with minimal effort and great reliability. I still prefer driving my 2000 Dodge Durango because it has the subwoofer box in the back!

I just bought a pickup truck instead.

Atta boy.

If this were the SEC board we'd be arguing about whose truck was higher off the ground.

I own three trucks myself, two are diesel. My favorite is my Ram 1500 with the ecodiesel. 28 mpg on the highway.