Re:9,000-pound electric Hummer shows we can’t ignore efficie...
by tootie on Thursday July 07, 2022 @07:40PM
(#32021142)
I think it was the boomer generation that decided cars were vanity purchases. Your car became your identity instead of being a purely practical decision.
Re:9,000-pound electric Hummer shows we can’t ignore efficie...
by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:45PM
(#32028672)
Vanishingly few things are purely practical decisions.
Simply put, you need to meet the voters were they are.
Companies know this and meet consumers where they are.
Why do people buy SUVs? Because the generation that grew up embarrassed by their parents minivans never wanted to buy a minivan! So now companies sell the former minivan cohort SUVs instead, which are basically the same thing.
Occasionally the Germans ship us a sexy sports wagon, but they can't call it that here and have to call them hatches or "cross turismo" etc.. haha.