I’ll have to share this with my husband, who in all due respect I thought was being a bit too anal when he insisted on me getting a bigger vehicle to drive our 2 year-old daughter around in (I was driving a Jeep Liberty and I thought it was big enough). What spear-headed this was a lady I worked with was on her way to work and got rear-ended by a large truck while she was stopped waiting on a school bus. She was driving a small sedan, and she got killed in the accident. He wanted something large enough if we got rear-ended we’d be ok. He got the biggest thing on the lot, a Ford Expedition. Unfortunately it doesn’t get the same gas mileage as the Jeep, but we both feel our daughter is safer in it, and that is all that matters.
Definitely safer...
As an Expedition owner I say, Great choice! I love that thing. Great ride, plenty of room, lots of power. Gas mileage is the only draw back, but it is worth it.