Never mind the fact that a car with 50,000 miles on it now is a better vehicle than a brand new car 15 years ago. Looking at the cost of new cars is not an apples to apples comparison.

There are still p-l-e-n-t-y of affordable new cars. Don’t let the choices people are making fool you into thinking a $20K compact doesn’t exist.

“Harley-Davidson, which makes extremely heavy motorcycles for baby boomers,” “extremely heavy motorcycles are not anything anyone under the age of 50 is interested in buying,”

Hey Eric, stop crying about Trump.  Find a real problem to worry about other than fleet mpg standards.

A fellow aut... I mean member of r/wallstreetbets ?

“Welcome to Texaco. You can trust your car to the system with a star”

“(even though it’s true)“

If we eliminated from the roads the people who NEED a car to get to work, and it was just people who LIKE to drive, driving would be a helluva lot better.

No its a politics website above all. Cars are just what keeps our eyes in front of their message.  These daily news threads are the ground zero.

“Isn’t this a car enthusiast website?”

They seem to be straddling this really weird editorial line where personal car ownership should only be shitty vehicles that you buy for less than a $1000, drop a bunch of time and money into, and then never drive into a city. 

“Get it so Americans don’t need a car at all.”

The office of the Michigan congresswoman cited a May 2019 AAA survey showing only 16% of Americans said they would consider buying an electric vehicle because most consumers were concerned about purchase price, repair costs and battery reliability.

I agree, but in the 1960s, those cheap performance cars did not have:

I feel like they just pretend this stuff doesn’t exist when bemoaning crossovers.

What is about these crossovers with no off-road ability that convinces you to pay a premium just so you can give up handling, fuel economy, and rollover safety?

This. It's not near as difficult as the authors here make it seem to fic. Fire out why cuvs are selling over cars. 

Totally agree with all of this. I currently commute in a hatchback but then I see crossovers(especially hybrids) meeting or exceeding my real world average of 33mpg and think: more space wouldnt hurt! Larger may be more comfortable! I only drive on the highway so I don’t really care how well it handles or accelerates

I don’t own a crossover, but it’s ride height, AWD, ease of entry, and cargo space, the same as it always has been.

All trucks are sold well below msrp. Even in the low trims its not impossible to find a good 10k below what the Ford website configures the same options to.