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Americans can no longer afford their cars (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] Wooster@startrek.website 64 points 10 months ago (19 children)

But car buyers' preferences have also shifted dramatically to larger trucks and SUVs in the past 10 years or so, and even more towards high-tech and comfort amenities in the form of cameras, sensors, radars and large infotainment screens," he said.

You can’t buy a smaller truck because the manufacturers lobbied that large trucks are exempt from stricter emissions and thus they don’t have to engineer a smaller, more efficient truck.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Right? The mid size truck is now the size of a full size from 15 years ago.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago

Had an 84 Toyota pickup, can confirm that thing would be classified as a compact car nowadays. Funny thing, it had a longer bed than many current full size truck.

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