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The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger

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themoonisachees ◴[] No.32425385[source]
OK but they are still making small cars. If all cars suddenly got bigger i'd get it, but the fact of the matter is that people are buying bigger trucks and not small cars despite both being available.

My pet theory is that among other factors, being the biggest on the road is desirable as a repilian-brain thing. Also selling larger vehicles that are just higher and wider for more money but that are not significantly different than similar but smaller vehicles is just easy money, really.

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1. thecrumb ◴[] No.32425483[source]
All cars are getting bigger. There used to be a handful of us at work who all drove Subaru's and we parked them next to each other in chronological order. Was crazy to see just how much bigger the newer cars were.
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2. SV_BubbleTime ◴[] No.32426171[source]
The article is exactly correct on why. You can non-ironically say Thanks Obama to this.

If you can remember the “All cars mandated to get XX MPG by YYYY year” headlines… that was this.