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Old 12-12-2009, 07:23 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
there are a LOT of Americans who don't want to drive huge SUVs &c - that's why the Detroit 3 have steadily been losing market share to the imports.
The converse is that the imports have been getting bigger (compare Honda Accords over a 10-year span) and import makers have moved into large vehicle territory as well (have you seen a Land Cruiser lately? Yeeeeesh!). That tends to support the hypothesis that there are a lot of Americans who DO want to drive huge SUVs, they just don't want to buy one made by the Big 3.
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SUVs are for soccer moms :-)
And the rich ones drive Audi Q7's.
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