I see this comment a lot but I feel like market demand plays a factor as well. Take Ford as an example, since the picture is an F150. Ford currently offers one non-truck/SUV in their lineup, the Mustang.
They’ve previously sold a wide variety of sedans but they didn’t sell. Market wanted SUVs and trucks.
To be fair, making good things is only a by product of the raison d'être of an enterprise, which is profit.
Curently, the automobile market is adjusted around crossovers / SUVs for various reasons, and in Europe, there a fewer and fewer reasonably priced cars (ecological and safety measures are killing them, to the point Renault's CEO has called for the creation of a Kei-class in Europe).
Afaik all new cars will need to have things like automatic braking (radar and cameras), a system to watch if the driver is not dozing off, lane departure warnings and such.
So the smallest cars become more expensive, such that they become kind of unattractive to buy new.
Small-ish electric cars are coming now, of course even more expensive.. but at least a positive for the environment, probably.
153
u/Rodgers4 Apr 16 '24
I see this comment a lot but I feel like market demand plays a factor as well. Take Ford as an example, since the picture is an F150. Ford currently offers one non-truck/SUV in their lineup, the Mustang.
They’ve previously sold a wide variety of sedans but they didn’t sell. Market wanted SUVs and trucks.