To be fair you could have pointed to a specific era such as the late '70s and '80s post fuel shortage. '50s and '60s cars are notoriously inefficient solid steel death landships.
See, I think you can point to specific post-war US time periods like that where cars were kinda shrinking. The post-oil crisis cars were one, and post-Great Recession was another.
The companies went right back to oversized metal boxes as soon as they could. This has been true for the entire post-war period.
Even with those specific time periods, I don’t see any move towards really small cars. A 1980 Toyota Corolla is on the large size of small. It’s not like Japanese Kai cars ever had a chance in the US market.
To be fair you could have pointed to a specific era such as the late '70s and '80s post fuel shortage. '50s and '60s cars are notoriously inefficient solid steel death landships.
Yes I could add approximately 5653 caveats to everything I say. Let’s begin.
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See, I think you can point to specific post-war US time periods like that where cars were kinda shrinking. The post-oil crisis cars were one, and post-Great Recession was another.
The companies went right back to oversized metal boxes as soon as they could. This has been true for the entire post-war period.
Even with those specific time periods, I don’t see any move towards really small cars. A 1980 Toyota Corolla is on the large size of small. It’s not like Japanese Kai cars ever had a chance in the US market.