When you say "lifted vehicle", do you mean what we used to say in California "jacked up", where the front is low, and the rear is lifted/jacked-up? That was a fad in California also. In fact, I still like it myself, if not done to the extreme.
I mean taking a car body & putting it on a truck chassis with large tires ... now that I think about it, maybe the granddaddy to today's donks.