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i doubt it. Market forces trend towards selling cheap products with high margins, which smaller vehicles would easily fit the bill for.
Then car companies wouldn't be making bigger and bigger cars
yeah, and it seems to be mostly because of regulations surrounding wheelbase and emissions. I think it's a secondary market effect where people are buying them because its the only real option.
If we were to restrict or remove them, and fix the apparent issue with regulations, i would imagine people would go back to buying smaller cars as they're cheaper and more economical.
It's not the only real option tho. First of all a vast majority of those buying big trucks and cars don't need a truck and aren't hauling shit, they are buying them for a status symbol, second of all vehicles that are legal in Europe, with their stricter safety standards etc, are legal in the US, you can buy the smaller vehicles I'm talking about in the US or other places, they are available, yet market forces still push towards the shittier massive vehicles, because it makes more money to market these vehicles to insecure men.
that's not what most truck owners say, but maybe they're coping hard. The second technicality here would be vehicle safety, but these vehicles are obviously more dangerous, so maybe they should be or are more expensive to insure than the average vehicle because of that.
obviously, but this is discounting the native American auto manufacturing which the US generally has a massive boner for, both it's people and the government, people still buy euro cars, but unless they manufactured domestically like subaru for example, they're going to be more expensive.
this specifically is the companies wanting to sell more larger trucks with more features, as it makes them a bigger margin. There's a massive slog in new vehicle purchases at the moment as they car market is normalizing post covid. It's possible they'll pick up later, it's possible they won't it's hard to tell.