Road infrastructure has gotten steadily worse everywhere, which probably has something to do with it. I drove a low car in Atlanta and it was bad. Constantly cringing with scrapes and bumps just driving around doing normal things.
There's also an arms race factor. People feel like they need a truck to keep safer from all the bigger trucks.
And eventually car companies just stopped selling anything else. Ford doesn't make a regular car except for the Mustang.
True but there is also a real safety difference driving a small sedan when everyone else in your town drives brodozers. Doesn't matter how good your airbags are when a lifted F350 runs right over you :agony-yehaw:
There’s also an arms race factor. People feel like they need a truck to keep safer from all the bigger trucks.
The two things that made me switch from a sedan was being blinded by headlights of all the taller vehicles and moving to a more rural location where the weather was a bit worse and road maintenance was laughable
I don't have 30k to throw at a car, but if I did I'd want a normal sized car. I know it's because taxes and american derangement and everything but at the end of the day my analysis is just: "That's dumb, why'd they do that?"
Road infrastructure has gotten steadily worse everywhere, which probably has something to do with it. I drove a low car in Atlanta and it was bad. Constantly cringing with scrapes and bumps just driving around doing normal things.
There's also an arms race factor. People feel like they need a truck to keep safer from all the bigger trucks.
And eventually car companies just stopped selling anything else. Ford doesn't make a regular car except for the Mustang.
Size = perceived safety especially against other vehicles
True but there is also a real safety difference driving a small sedan when everyone else in your town drives brodozers. Doesn't matter how good your airbags are when a lifted F350 runs right over you :agony-yehaw:
The two things that made me switch from a sedan was being blinded by headlights of all the taller vehicles and moving to a more rural location where the weather was a bit worse and road maintenance was laughable
Wait, did they discontinue the focus and fiesta?
they did indeed, in the US market at least
I don't have 30k to throw at a car, but if I did I'd want a normal sized car. I know it's because taxes and american derangement and everything but at the end of the day my analysis is just: "That's dumb, why'd they do that?"