[acdha]

A lot of that is that Americans are buying trucks, not cars. It’s easy to stay under $30k with a sedan, but a sizable group of people think they need the image of driving a full-sized pickup truck to the office and each 7 year loan on an $80k truck is going to drive the average up, not to mention leaving the buyer more cash-strapped due to the higher operating costs.

[redwall_hp]

My favorite is the people who whine about gas prices, when they chose to deliberately shoot themselves in the foot daily by buying a GMC Yukon or something instead of a sedan. To mostly commute to work, but oh no, they need a monster truck because they might have 1.5 children in it occasionally. And everyone knows sedans don't have back seats or cargo space.