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Most people don't need a truck, maybe, but the three top-selling vehicles in the US are trucks. And in 2017 only 35% bought cars, with the rest being trucks and
by jtbayly 7y ago
Most people don't need a truck, maybe, but the three top-selling vehicles in the US are trucks. And in 2017 only 35% bought cars, with the rest being trucks and SUVs.
- ajuc 7y agoUS is far from average needs of a car user. Not a representative sample.
- Bootwizard 7y agoA country the size of all of Europe is not representative of the vehicle market? Not sure I buy that.
- ajuc 7y agoUSA is very sparsely populated (35 people per square km, 174th in the world), most of the people live in countries with more than 100 people per square km. To be exact 67% of people live in such countries, and 83% of people live in countries more dense than US. Source: http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-density/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-dens... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aoJUhDHhhIvLRSPLsT7bzvv0rIvBT1NLg5QNp-sz2L8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aoJUhDHhhIvLRSPLsT7b...
- nsxwolf 7y agoReally? We're the #2 consumer of cars, about half of the annual car sales of China.
- jtbayly 7y agoIt’s perfectly representative of the point, which is that the analogy is simply wrong.