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Originally Posted by dadioflex
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Yes, I'll admit outright to avoiding them. I steer in any other direction. I sneer at their commercials. I deride their spokesmodels. To me, they deserve my ire for consipring to sell over-polluting old pickup truck technology dressed up in Corinthian leather to unthinking American lemmings, whilst (and at the same time) buying off the government to allow them to skirt environmental regulations and waste our oil reserves at a rate fast enough to assure our grandchildren would have to seriously consider a world without gasoline.
But that's just me.
And without reading the Moneyland article, I'll just say that a number of people I know work for car dealerships, and they all tell me about the flood of people turning in their old trucks and big SUVs and looking for hybrid and crossover trade-ins.
Anyway, enough
stuff.
EDIT: Okay, I looked at the article, and I see its flaw: It describes the newer vehicles out there as SUVs (those are
trucks) when what they really are, are crossovers (large cars--mostly what we dinosaurs used to call
station wagons--
deal, kiddies). The article does indicate that drivers are swapping the old SUVs for "newer SUVs", which are primarily the crossovers. This matches what I've heard from those in the industry, as well as the evidence that buyers are snatching up hybrids of all shapes and sizes, but mostly Priuses, as fast as they can land on American shores.
BTW: My wife and I are taking my new Prius C on a road trip to NYC this weekend. Can't wait!
Okay, I'm done.