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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by FooHentai on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:50PM (#21445687)
>SUV/pick-up boom (America's best-selling car in 2018 is the F150 series!)

My understanding is that this is a misleading fact - There are less models of SUV in the market than other classes of vehicle, so even if less SUVs, as a class, are sold than other cars, the lack of variance means the total number of a particular model is likely higher than sales of a model in any other class.

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by coliveira on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:57PM (#21445775)
That might be true, but total volume of SUV sales in the US is giant. In fact, SUVs are now the standard car model, with sedans being left behind. This is the result of a strong push from auto companies in terms of advertisement and diversification of SUV offers.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by FooHentai on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:34PM (#21446192)
Crossovers apparently make up the bulk of it (40%), but yeah those plus pickups and SUVs combined eclipse small, medium, large, and luxury cars combined.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276506/change-in-us-car-...

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by elihu on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:54PM (#21448114)
It seems like Crossover is just a name for "I can't tell if that's a bulky sedan, a minivan with slightly bigger tires, a small SUV, or a short station wagon." I think statistics that classify them as SUVs are a little misleading because the distinctions are blurring.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by FooHentai on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:59PM (#21448564)
It's a platform difference. The starting point for a crossover is a car chassis, whereas SUVs are derived from a truck.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by perl4ever on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:15PM (#21448664)
The word crossover implies a unibody car-like vehicle, but people call things SUVs whether or not they are car-based.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by hi5eyes on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:04PM (#21445858)
a trend right now is a lot of wealthy/upper middle class buy brand new pick up trucks, SUVs have replaced sedans/minivans are too washed dadcore
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