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There are only so many manufacturers of a given vehicle segment. If they all soft collude to stick with higher margin vehicles there's not much consumers can do
by rurp 2y ago
There are only so many manufacturers of a given vehicle segment. If they all soft collude to stick with higher margin vehicles there's not much consumers can do about it. Car manufacturing isn't a liquid market where new entrants can quickly jump in and undercut the incumbents.
- shiroiushi 2y agoIf minivans were popular, manufacturers would make and sell them. They're not colluding: if the minivans were really that popular, just one manufacturer would have to ignore them and build lots of minivans and take over the market. The simple fact is that they just aren't very popular, and consumers (at least the ones who buy brand-new) really want SUVs and pretty much nothing else. Stop whining about the manufacturers, and look at your idiot neighbors who are all choosing these monstrosities. (Also look at your crappy government, that your neighbors elected, that gives highly preferential treatment to SUVs with their "regulation".) The manufacturers are just giving people what they want; anything else would be leaving money on the table and losing to their competition.
- shiroiushi 2y agoAlso, to add to this: here in Japan, there's still lots of minivans. They're quite popular in more rural or suburban areas. SUVs aren't as popular as they are in America, probably because of their lack of real utility and terrible fuel economy and large size. (Yes, minivans are just as large, but they actually hold a lot of people or cargo.) So the manufacturers are happy to build them here because lots of people will buy them here, just not in the US. Also, we still have some models of station wagons here; those haven't been sold in America for many years now.