That's basically the point of this article from Nick Bunkley that should point out the obvious, which is that Ford increased its market share and banked huge profits thanks to a product mix that included the always popular F-Series trucks and Escape CUV, as well as Fusions and Foci.

Big winners include Cadillac, Jeep (thanks Cherokee!), and Ford. The biggest loser might be Volkswagen, although Audi did quite well.

But but but, now children will want to smoke!

CLA's and nice incentives. Wonder how profit margins looked after all those incentives and advertising costs though.

I think they went light on the incentives and got passed by those who didn't. December can be strange that way.

You could be right, but probably not to any material extent. As the opportunity cost for the harder to sell car would not be putting an easier to sell car on your lot (and your expensive dealer plan).

Love isn't logical. Buying that car wasn't remotely logical. Sometimes you need to say what the $%$^ and do what makes you happy. I wouldn't do it, like you the opportunity costs would point me do a different car.

My point would be "to an extent"- the Redditor's point was way too narrow, and there are other considerations. The foremost being buyer demand, which is sadly lacking for hatchbacks and wagons, especially over $30k. Regulations are not keeping them from US shores, its that buyers with $30k+ for a new car are not…

There is a much simpler explanation- they don't sell well enough to bother. There are more costs involved, and more concerns (marketing/branding and what dealers want and can sell) then just simple crash and emissions standards.

Usually they get taken down for fraud (often related to real estate) or income tax evasion. Often really huge fans of guns and gold (almost to the fetish levels).

- He can't be sued or held liable for anything non-violent, because he refuses to acknowledge the existence of anyone that would sue him. He also claims he can't get tickets, and doesn't pay any taxes. This, presumably, is also why he thinks it's ok to violate Brock Yates's Copyright on the term "Cannonball."

too many curbstoners and Autotrader seems to intentionally not pull down sold cars very quickly to inflate their numbers. I mostly use it now to market check prices, and to laugh at some of the delusional sellers. The two biggest Autotrader lies "Rare" and "Tasteful Mods".

Chrysler sales also up 6% with the new Cherokee bringing in 15,000 new buyers. Cars like the 300, 200, and Dart were all down, though.

Police say they believe alcohol was a factor in the crash, and the Yukon's unnamed driver has at least one prior DWI conviction.

Obviously the answer is Little People as Astronauts.

The Jalopnik Special! Take the 328d wagon. Remove the engine/transmission. Insert crazy Euro only M550d diesel pavement destroyer. Brown only.

Take the current E92 M3 body, remove V8, insert twin turbo V8 from M5 = Profit.

Mercedes is in the middle of such a product overhaul and it appears to be working, while BMW is already introducing more variations of models than we can keep track of ( theM4 Gran Coupe Xdrive 3s is surely coming)

E46 M3 too high, E92 M3 too low. E36 M3 probably should be dead last. M1 probably should not be too high, given what it was. I would put the 1M Coupe much higher.

Bad hubcap fakes pretending to be Alloy wheels.