Change regulations now, legislation usually works like "From [date a few years in the future], only vehicles with [list of proerties] will be allowed to be..."

Change regulations now, legislation usually works like "From [date a few years in the future], only vehicles with [list of proerties] will be allowed to be..." Manufacturers managed to switch to building only trucks and SUVs in a few years, so of course they can switch back in a few years too. Also: Funny how people used to be able to get around in sedans and station wagons even in Canada and the northern states of the USA only a few decades ago, isn't it? ETA: The Subaru Outback doesn't only look like a station wagon, AFAICT it pretty much is a station wagon. A 4WD station wagon, set slightly higher and with a somewhat boxier design to look "like a SUV" -- just like 98.4% of "crossovers" and "SUVs" sold nowadays. Get rid of the silly regulations that have many of them taxed like "trucks" (as if they were farm work vehicles in the 1950s) and allow some aspects of unsafe design (high square bonnets etc), and we'll probably see fashion too swing away from the current faux-macho bullbar aestethic after a while.