[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by JSH

You won't like Volvo's recent news that they are going to discontinue sedan and wagon models and replace them with crossovers. People vote with their dollars - 75% of their sales are crossovers today.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/indust...ns-and-wagons/

Darn it! I was afraid if that. I feel like society favors less efficient designs under the excuse that it's not too inefficient. But do an indepth study of aerodynamic and real world statistics and you'll see that there is a noticable difference in efficiency with even such a small increase in vehicle height. It's better, from an efficiency standpoint, to increase length, not height when making a bigger vehicle.

A case in point. When Mazda dumped the Mazda 6 Wagon back in 2008 and instead offered just the CX-7 Crossover the M6 Wagon actually had more passenger and cargo space and also had more acceleration, better fuel mileage and cost less than the CX-7.

Today's moto for society is, "Get a crossover so it can cost more to have less space, less power and less fuel mileage."