F'real they're just better SUVs. I tried googling it, but the internet's very helpful answers were "they're not cool" and "SUVs are more popular." I'm convinced it's manufactured desire. What really happened to the minivan?

Edit: Apparently wagons and minivans still exist, they're just sold as SUVs.

    • prismaTK
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      1 year ago

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    • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The problem with the car market is there is a small demographic that buys new cars, and what they want isn't the same as what the vast majority of the market wants.

      It's such a common thing for the demographic that buys a truck and actually uses it to complain no reasonable sized trucks are available, that it's a meme at this point. But the demographic that buys a new truck wants a huge one, the demographic that uses their trucks buy used.

      So when Ford finally introduces some smaller trucks, they aren't aimed at those people that complain new trucks are too big, they are aimed at new car buyers. They are aimed at the people who want to be seen driving a truck for status reasons, but are annoyed by how impractically massive F-150s are. That's why the new Ranger sucks so bad as an actual truck, it's not meant to be used as a truck.

      The Maverick is aimed at a very specific, but large demographic. Old people who have their identity tied to driving a truck, but are too old to actually do the kind of stuff you need a truck for. That's why the solution to being able to carry drywall is to have the tailgate pop halfway open. It's just so the old man who's in denial of his body not working anymore can say "I can still haul drywall, see". Really he needs a compact car, or a minivan. But that would be admitting defeat.

    • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      And now there are compact crossover SUVs which are really just lifted hatchbacks that sometimes have AWD