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Not that many Americans are car enthusiasts. The most popular cars have been basic commuters for decades.
by morshu9001 9mo ago
Not that many Americans are car enthusiasts. The most popular cars have been basic commuters for decades.
- PunchyHamster 9mo agoIt's hard to get basic commuter without overload of tech these days
- Slothrop99 9mo agoWhile that is true, the new car market has narrowed to the point where most of the buyers want something overpowered for their money. The most popular cars are actually buying these when they are 10+ years old. (I śaw recently that the USA market is about 16M cars.. this would have been low figure years ago. But they are barely selling 'basic commuter cars'.)
- amanaplanacanal 9mo agoAren't the most popular "cars" in the US actually SUVs and light trucks?
- bluedino 9mo agoMostly. The Camry, Civic, and Corolla are up there though. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g64457986/bestselling-cars-2025/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g64457986/bestselling-cars...
- morshu9001 9mo agoA lot of them are those mini SUVs like the CR-V. The thing about that list is it's grouped by model, and the share of non-trucks is more fragmented.
- criddell 9mo agoI guess it depends on how you define car enthusiast. A lot of Americans spend far more on their vehicle than they need to and so I would classify them as enthusiasts even if they couldn't tell you how many cylinders their engine has.
- NoGravitas 9mo agoWe often have very little choice about that, though. You can't buy something no one is selling.
- morshu9001 9mo agoI would define car enthusiast as someone who at least knows how many cylinders. For the purpose of the EV discussion, the people who don't know that aren't the people who want an ICE.