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...I honestly don't understand this meme. Where do you live that people are using huge vehicles to fit all their groceries? I guess I've seen it visiting a friend's family that lives out in the country. The "big" grocery store was an hour away, so they would get like several weeks of groceries at a time. Maybe I'm just not understanding the point of the meme.
The Americans I visited live in Indiana. Tho it's less about them actually buying a lot (about a week's worth), but rather that when talking about cars and how ridiculously huge their's is, they always say that they need it for hauling and groceries. Meanwhile the rest of the world doesn't experience this problem.
And on top of that you can't put anything into the trunk (or bed I suppose...) and the back seats are just barely spacious enough to fit a rifle case. So if you have around 6-8 bags of stuff, you're gonna put some into the passenger seat. It's especially funny, because even my mom's tiny 3rd gen Clio fits more inside. Picking me up from the airport with barely space for my luggage was another fun one. But they insist on buying these expensive awkward vehicles.
Yeah, the huge trucks and suburbans are pretty insane. I'm American and drive a small-ish SUV (2023 RAV4 Hybrid) and we fill the extra cargo space (and passenger seats) all the time. Groceries can do it (not all the time though), especially if making one of our (infrequent) runs to Costco to restock on stuff that's a lot cheaper/more useful to buy in bulk. The other day I used the cargo space to transport a large (6 ft/1.8m) folding table and 8 folding chairs for my son's birthday party. And speaking of kids: car seats, strollers, diaper bags, etc. need a fair bit of room.
Yesterday I drove behind a new generation RAV4 and was shocked at how big it was. I remembered them as smaller SUVs.
Looking at carsized.com the 2005 gen definitely looks lighter and sportier and smaller than the current 2019 fat slob.