I was intending to joke about how the auto industry caters to image and fashion not utility and many cars are encrusted with things people don’t need… whether i

I was intending to joke about how the auto industry caters to image and fashion not utility and many cars are encrusted with things people don’t need… whether it’s being excessively big and jacked up or a bunch of bloatware on an infotainment system. What you say is somewhat true but we really do have a ridiculous oversized car issue in the US. The irony is that many of the people who really could use these trucks can’t afford them. They are high priced status symbols. What I was ultimately getting at was that the car industry does not want to sell practical cars. The margin on those is lower. They want to sell puffed up chonkmobiles or overly complex bloatware machines. Then they want to double dip with surveillance. Enshittification for cars.