Soon to be the most often used comment in America: We fucking told you so.

Ah the apocolypse proof cybertruck. You know unless it rains, there’s a puddle, a small stream, dirt and/or grass, an update, or even a light fart.

Tired: Alpha male.

Yes blame EVs even though Ford make both the Bronco sport and the Escape which are both the exact same car underneath.

This is the correct question to ask.

The accord has been longer than 193" and wider than 73" since 2008.

The same thing has been going on at multiple companies in the bicycle industry for a couple of years now. Demand skyrocketed while supply plummeted during the pandemic. As management does, they figured the increased demand would last forever, so they massively overproduced. Some companies (cough, Specialized, cough)…

I guess I can hope for a fire sale, although I'm more the cheap used bike type 

Remember when cars got too big and expensive after 1978 and then we pivoted back to buying small cars again?

Right? I was going to say, I sure miss the Fiesta, Golf, Fit, Focus, Mirage, etc.

Maybe not the immediate generation prior, but a Civic in 2000 was about the same size as a 2018 Honda Fit (164" vs 160"), and an Accord in 2000 (186") is about the same as the Civic today (184").

“Yes”. Manufactures did a great job marketing larger vehicles that had a higher profit margin, and consumers bought them in such quantities that the profit margin for smaller cars narrowed to the point that they made little to no financial sense for some manufacturers to keep making them. So, both. 

The fact that Arctic Cat did the same thing at the same time is going to be a business school case study.  

Same. I just don’t enjoy driving large vehicles. I’ll take maneuverability and parking ease any day.

I don’t know what the average KTM retails for, but lets just assume for round numbers they could liquidate the unsold inventory for $10K a unit. that would generate $2.65Billion. That would go a long way towards digging them out of debt.

Did American consumers abandon sedans/smaller cars, or did American manufacturers do that?  

This is a cycle that repeats itself. Remember when fuel prices started driving people out of SUVs into small cars, and thefts of small cars went through the roof? Yeah, it wasn’t that long ago. Then people started buying mega trucks and SUVs again. And now the cycle is repeating itself.

Some of us just want small cars. I always have. I always will. 

It doesn’t hurt that “small” cars aren’t that small anymore.

Dear Ford: Can we have the Fiesta back now? Even as a hybrid or something, I don’t care. I just miss my American sub-compact hatchbacks!