In both cases they were stowed on deck (30-32' boats) and the hard dinghy was especially quick to deploy or bring aboard. I would guess that by "SUV" Jon means something like a RIB with a large enough motor to plane it - hard to stow those on deck unless you have a much larger boat.

Yes, the lower powered/rowing dinghies kept me from doing certain things (unless I went with others), but I didn't want the trade-offs that came with a larger/heavier/more powerful/more complex dinghy. On the other hand, I enjoyed many a quiet row through the anchorage , and even the tiny hard dinghy managed two people, four 6-gallon jerry cans, and some bags of groceries and ice.

Trade-offs either way, it seems.