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Originally Posted by theunchosen
I know just because a million people say it doesn't mean its true but if you can supply better evidence(from several respectable sources or a plethora of somewhat reasonable sources) I'll shutup.
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Well, those "better sources" are surprisingly hard to find. Wouldn't you expect that if you typed something like "US auto sales by model 2008" into Google, it'd find a nice table somewhere? But no, just hundreds of news articles bemoaning slow sales and spinning it one way or another. The best I could find is this link to the top 20 sellers for the first half of 2008.
Top 20 Us Car sale ranking July 2008 by model — AUTOinCAR
Now I admit I'm not that familiar with current car models, but I think only 5 of those - the pickups plus the Chevy Impala - qualify as "big", the rest are small to mid-size. So I get a total of 3,146,373 vehicles, of which 976,372, or 31%, are "big cars".
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The Mariner and the Lincoln Navigator both sold more units in 2008 than they ever have before. The Yukon was also up.
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Their sales may be up, but up from what? Again, Google wasn't much help, but I found a sales figure of about 35,000 units for the Mariner last year. Sales could have gone up 50% or more, yet they'd still be only a small fraction of the total.