25-06-2022, 01:41 AM
(24-06-2022, 07:35 AM)Andy Bennett Wrote: Yes but Erik, that's sort of what i mean, the Subaru isn't American but is coming up in size to meet that need for a global car platform.
And jps, fair point yes I stand corrected I see your point on the SUVs that you need a ladder to get into.
I just don't understand the desire for ever larger cars. Houses are smaller, car parking spaces are smaller, suburban roads are tighter and fuel/electricity is more expensive and the apparent appreciation of environmental impact says smaller everything for all sorts of reasons.
Funny old world.
Couldn't agree more - so much has to do with marketting and the perception of safety - SUVs in particular are heavily marketted to mothers as the safest to protect their children even though, ironically, they aren't due to them being trucks and therefore exempt from ceratin safety requirements.
Ford sells 5 trucks for each car - but, at least here in the colonies, you also never see North American ads for cars (only SUV's and trucks)
In Japan 80% of SUV's will be sold having literally never been put into 4 wheel drive.
a couple of years ago I read a 'we have seen the enemy and it is us' type article that made the point that not only do trucks/suv's use more gas and cost more to make and buy but that fewer fit on the road - so fewer can get through an intersection during a green light slowing down traffic and other drivers have to hang back further to see past - etc. etc.
Funny old world indeed