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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is an echo back to the 70s, when gas prices were high and there were strict controls over Japanese economy cars. Why didn't American manufacturers make smaller cars? Well, "no one wanted them" was the line. Miraculously almost as soon as those same Japanese cars started to be allowed on our streets, suddenly Detroit figured out how to make them and dragged them kicking and screaming into the next eras.

Good companies innovate to keep their customers. Bad companies legislate to keep their customers.

Which one do you think is happening more today?

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Detroit never made them; they bought them and rebranded them with trim packages.

Here's news: the US cannot make cars. They only know one style, and that's land yacht.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

American cars were more fuel efficient and size efficient following the 70’s fuel crisis. It wasn’t until the Chicken Tax and Cafe Standards you see the shift from small work trucks to SUVs and large trucks.