I counted cars at a stop light and everything was a crossover, SUV, or pickup truck. Closest thing to a sedan was a Corolla, which is now a hatchback!
I counted cars at a stop light and everything was a crossover, SUV, or pickup truck. Closest thing to a sedan was a Corolla, which is now a hatchback!
In North America we’re being conditioned to accept ever-larger vehicles as normal, and it’s working beautifully (for car makers, much less so society or the environment).
My mom drives a Mazda something-or-other crossover, and gets annoyed when I call it her truck. She insists it’s a “car” and “not that big”, both arguments made foolish when I roll up in my Nissan Micra.
A while back I was comparing the 1987 Ford Ranger (what I learned on) with a more recent Ford Maverick, out of curiosity. The Maverick is nearly the same size as the Ranger (the box is a bit longer) but thirty five hundred pounds heavier. No doubt a lot of that is battery, but holy shit.
Nice to know Toyota still has a hatch. Nissan stopped selling the Micra in Canada and almost nobody has anything that small in their offerings now.