Is it Really Dead?
Ever since the Ford F-150 was knocked off of its pedestal as being the best-selling vehicle in the United States, increasing numbers of people are beginning to turn to other small cars and non-SUV vehicles as their main source of transportation. Still, others are forfeiting their family road trips, opting instead for auto transport companies and a set of plane tickets. It’s just not affordable anymore to own an SUV!
According to a recent article published in USA Today,
Cars outsold the top-selling Ford F-series truck in May for the first time since 1992, a sign of the rapid shift in customers’ preferences from trucks and SUVs to small cars that is forcing painful production cuts and plant closures at General Motors and Ford Motor.
So, now SUV owners must look at the grim reality: no one wants to buy SUVs except if you’re a farmer or a cowboy or a contractor, etc. Do families really need a Suburban that only gets 15 miles to the gallon to haul their kids around to soccer practice OR can they make do with a stationwagon or some other hybrid that saves on gas as well as helps the environment? We must ask ourselves the hard questions when it comes to SUVs as well as face the fact that in ten years or so, it may be somewhat odd to see a lot of SUVs crowding the roadways as they do now. What do you think? Do you think that SUVs will still be around in 10 years?
Look up Aptera Typ – 1e on the web for some inspiration and stop looking at 1930’s ‘learned by rote’ automotive methodology from the grease pits of yesteryear! Look up Tesla Electric cars on the net to see what a couple of modern minded Brits and some carbon fiber can come up with! Check out VW and their carbon fiber three wheeler! We don’t have to be slaves to the OPEC parasites or the ‘Old School’ GM ideas and heavy U.S. all steel bodies. Time moves on, there are more interesting and newer technologies such as carbon fiber and hemp fiber lightweight bodies, diesel electric plugin hybrid designs, electric drives and with the price of oil where it is, if we understand anything it is that things cannot stay as they are. The 1930s are over, spark-ignition is a thing of the past, high performance now means good mileage at posted limits for polite drivers and girls are allowed to buy and drive cars too!