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Originally Posted by Blue07CivicEX
Have you also noticed that in the past 10 years every import manufacturer has started building SUV's?
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Sure. Have you noticed that those SUVs are generally a lot smaller than their Detroit counterparts, and are only a small part of the import makers product line?
What you're seeing is Toyota, Honda, and the rest going after even more market share. They OWN the small car market, to the point that the few small cars Detroit tries to sell are re-badged Japanese & Korean products. If they want to increase their sales, they either have to fight amongst themselves for the small car market, or go after that fraction of the market that's been buying the big stuff.
In any case, all it takes to disprove the "Americans only want big cars" meme is to look at either sales, or what's actually out there on the roads. A lot of Americans, probably a sizeable majority, obviously don't want big cars (or SUVs or oversized pickups), because they're driving something else - and often that something else costs as much or more than the oversized American equivalent.