Suvs are Cool – Cool
Although there are many people out there who'll buy just about anything in order to impress, most of the times an SUV says a great deal about it's owner.
The young twenty-one year old who just supped up his father's old Suburban or International. He's young, good looking, and in pretty good shape; this will impress most of the under twenty-five crowd (women for most part), and if you have the six-pack body to go with it, this should get you plenty of dates.
Of course for the over forty-crowd, a new Cadillac, Lincoln, Lexus, Infiniti, Rover, Porsche, Audi, etc: should get plenty of attention.
If you drive up in a Land Rover, you pretty much blow everyone out of the water. As most British automobiles are, the Rover is no exception to the rule: gorgeous wood, the best money leather can buy, plus an exuberant looking interior like only the Brits can do!
The Porsche Cayenne is another one. This one tells the world you're more into performance than into looks (as most German cars are vs. British). Of course you can load up a Cayenne, and when it's all said and done: it's $110.000, most Rovers don't even make it to the $100,000 mark, but depending how you load them up; there are a few out there costing over $100,000; cool is the only thing that comes to mind when speaking of this vehicle.
The Cadillac Escalade is another one. Most Escalades don't make it to the $75,000 mark, but again: depending on how you decide to load them up, there are a few out there. The Cayenne and the Rover look better amongst the over forty crow, but if you're in your early thirties; an Escalade should the job more than well.
The Audi is another excellent choice, and for automobile buffs out there; everyone knows nothing handles like an Audi does. So for those of you interested in the Audi version of an SUV (the Q7, of whom both the Cayenne, and the VW Toureg are based on), should do pretty good as well.
Lincoln is another choice. Lincoln's have always looked great, and both: the Navigator, and the MKX are excellent choices.
Lexus also offers SUV's like any other upscale brand does. They offer three choices in SUV: RX, GX, and LX; although the RX is really a cross-over vehicle, it can also function as an SUV pretty well, the RX350 is relatively reasonable, but the RX400H (the hybrid), is well over $50,000.
Last but not least is: Infiniti. Infiniti's are great handling cars, sometimes even outdoing their main rival (only rival, since they are the two most upscale brands from Japan) Lexus in performance and handling. They have many different choices just like Lexus, and any of the above aforementioned.
To rap up this article: I do think SUV's give a pretty good image to their owners, of course there are a few out there that for most part don't. One such example is: the excursion. I don't know who ever thought up of that vehicle, but if they made it any bigger than they did; it would require tracks.