▲ 270 ▼ Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com) submitted 2 years ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 145 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15089465 Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry
[–] cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.com 52 points 2 years ago (3 children) The massive size of vehicles in the U.S. is ridiculous. I think a lot of people would buy smaller, cheaper cars if they were on the market. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] antler@feddit.rocks 13 points 2 years ago The EPA makes really tight emissions targets for vehicles under a certain size or the auto makers have to pay a fee iirc. Pretty sure they the medium sized stuff out of existance, an unfortunately I'm guessing the same fees would apply to imports too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] toastal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago I think folks bought into SUVs since they were bigger & selfishly less likely to take more damage in a crash. As such, with SUV tanks everywhere, being a pedestrian or in a small car on the road on in an SUV’s trajectory can often lead to lethal injury. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bastonia@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago When youre that fat you need a big car tbh permalink fedilink source parent
[–] antler@feddit.rocks 13 points 2 years ago The EPA makes really tight emissions targets for vehicles under a certain size or the auto makers have to pay a fee iirc. Pretty sure they the medium sized stuff out of existance, an unfortunately I'm guessing the same fees would apply to imports too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago I think folks bought into SUVs since they were bigger & selfishly less likely to take more damage in a crash. As such, with SUV tanks everywhere, being a pedestrian or in a small car on the road on in an SUV’s trajectory can often lead to lethal injury. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bastonia@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago When youre that fat you need a big car tbh permalink fedilink source parent