[umvi]

I thought it was just that you get hit with fines if your vehicle doesn't have a minimum mpg fuel efficiency and it's hard to make smaller trucks and SUVs with enough efficiency to avoid the fines

[hellojesus]

The issue was the Chicken Tax which made foreign competition uncompetitive and boxed the market off so that American companies could ignore it.

[eru]

SUVs get a special carve-out, and the law mandates less fuel efficiency for them than for regular cars (or what used to be regular cars). Even wonder why station wagons fell out of favour in the US?

[SkyPuncher]

Given that most small crossovers are labeled as “wagons”, I don’t think your theory holds much weight

[woleium]

not so much gets, they were designed specifically to exploit a loophole