I was chatting with Mario Langston (of Vintage Sports and Restoration) a couple of years ago about the effect of New England roads on modern BMWs. He had found stress fractures in structural areas of several customer cars, and found similar stress fractures in his daily driver (he was driving an e46 M3 at the time). After speaking to BMW and studying the problem, his view was that this was a design problem. Specifically, Mario concluded that the CAD software BMW used at the time to design its bodies was programmed for German roads, which are far better than US roads. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, a little over half of US roads are in either good or fair driving condition. In Germany, however, roads we consider to be in fair condition would be considered to be in poor condition, so through this lens, only about 40% of US roads would be considered to be in acceptable condition in Germany (and even that might be too high). But wait, there's more. This is a US wide average. Massachusetts is 45th in road quality (with Connecticut at 48 and Rhode Island at 49), so those roads are much worse than average.
In my view, this is a big part of why SUVs have become so popular in the US.