• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Station wagons are for mommies in the 1980s; all the cool kids want SUV and pickups.

    So car manufacturers made station wagons with upright seating positions and “off road” styling and called them Crossovers.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      In reality, they just couldn’t reasonably add the same markup, so they shifted to other products. Also, fuel efficiency standards based on weight made it more profitable to sell larger vehicles, so they had another reason to shift. We really got fucked from every side.

    • wraithcoop@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, my car I always though was a hatchback, but apparently is actually classified as a crossover. The main reason I still have it (other than having been paid off) is because it still gets competitive mpg and it’s so practical. I used it to take all my crap to and from college. I can carry 9ft lumber in the cabin with the passenger seat down. I’ve gone on a service road in a state park and I didn’t get stuck.

      The thought has crossed my mind to get an electric conversion for it instead of buying a new spyware riddled car 😆