More or less permanently, there's bike racks on top of my car. They get used at least once a week in the winter and more than that when the evenings are lighter.
When I had an SUV it was frankly a pain in the bum, as the racks were by default, higher to reach and load, and even being a fairly standard issue 6' tall, I sometimes struggled to reach the middle racks.
Estate cars work far better for me for that purpose, and indeed for the loading and unloading of my work stuff in or out of the back of them.
That coupled with the fact that I prefer to drive with my backside nearer to the road rather than feeling like I'm sitting on a bar stool, keeps me very much in favour of an estate over an SUV.
Each to their own of course.
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