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The poor aren't buying oversized vehicles, because those vehicles are the more expensive option already.
by epistasis 3y ago
The poor aren't buying oversized vehicles, because those vehicles are the more expensive option already.
- bombcar 3y agoDepends on what your definition of poor is, because if you go to street view in poorer areas of LA you do not miss out on seeing the SUVs.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoit turns out SUV's can be purchased used as well.
- bombcar 3y agoA big part of the problem is that the used market is controlled by new car buyers (from the past) - if nobody is buying new compact/cheap cars (for whatever reason) then they're not available for used buyers. And you can get what has happened multiple times - when gas prices rise substantially, low-mpg vehicles get dumped on the used market, so you have poor people and kids driving massive boats (the hotrodding scene from the 70s is a direct result of this).
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agovehicles can be repaired and sold and many people make good money doing exactly that.