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Originally Posted by ShocknAwe
I'd argue Americans have no issues buying ugly SUVs or TruckUVs (read, four door extended cab trucks).
I like weird looking cars. They have personality in design.
I was shocked the first time I saw a Morgan on the road here. Absolutely tickled, but shocked.
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Americans buy ugly cars too. Americans will buy ugly anything's.
The reason you see so few cars anymore is the NHTSA CAFE rules. Cars are classed on their own with far higher requirements for fleet mpg. So that means higher fines for not meeting them, and the requirements are utterly insane so you can't actually meet them.
But if you kill your hatchbacks and cars and call them crossover "light trucks" you get to use the less unmeetable (but still basically unmeetable) requirements and offset your larger vehicles with vehicles barely bigger than a hatchback in that fleet average.