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Regulations, tariffs, and other government-imposed hurdles reward American car companies for building bigger, more expensive trucks and keep out any potential competitors.
Autobesity, also known as car bloat and truck bloat, is the trend, beginning in about the 1990s, [3] of cars increasing in average size and weight. [4] [5] The average weight of cars sold in Europe increased by 21% between 2001 and 2022. [6] In the U.S., SUVs and pickup trucks comprised more than 75% of new sales in 2024 compared to 38% in 2009 ...
A Ford Excursion SUV next to a Toyota Camry compact. Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have been criticized for a variety of environmental and automotive safety reasons. The rise in production and marketing of SUVs in the 2010s and 2020s by auto manufacturers has resulted in over 80% of all new car sales in the United States being SUVs or light trucks by October 2021. [1]
During the mid-2000s, SUVs from luxury car brands grew by almost 40% in the United States to more than 430,000 vehicles (excluding SUV-only brands like Hummer and Land Rover), at a time when luxury car sales suffered a 1% decline, and non-luxury SUV sales were flat. By 2004, 30% of major luxury brands' U.S. sales were SUVs.
The biggest of the Big Three experienced a strong 2024 with robust sales of its generally higher-priced vehicles, like trucks, SUVs, and EVs.. GM shareholders were rewarded with the stock up 25% ...
People are buying trucks in droves, while demographic changes in who's buying—along with new EVs like the Ram 1500 REV and Ford F-150 Lightning—keep things exciting.
Including the Bricklin on its list of "The 20 Dumbest Cars of All Time", Autoblog wrote, "Memo to the world: When an automobile executive starts a new car company and proposes to name the car after himself, run like a stag in the opposite direction, lock your check book and credit cards in a safe and ask your best friend to keep the combination ...
“The bad part though, it is designed to be off-road and most [people] do not do that. So, you are paying for features never used. ... Volkswagen’s five-seat compact SUV may require frequent ...