Car sizes (was Re: So what now do we do?)

So, I am not the only one who chuckles at Accords,
Tauruses (Tauri?) and Camrys being referred to as
full-sized cars when they would have been mid sized 15
years ago? (Leaving aside the humungous "boats" like
the old Buick Electra, etc. from 25 years ago --
thought I needed a GM reference in there)

--- William Hamilton <whamilton51@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Although I work for General Motors, what I'm about
> to say is not
> endorsed by GM. My theory is that the popularity of
> SUV's is due
> directly to the efforts on the part of the auto
> companies to downsize
> their passenger cars. Americans are used to big
> cars, so when the
> manufacturers began to downsize their vehicles,
> people who wanted
> "adult-sized cars" switched to trucks.
>
> On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 12:39 PM, George
> Murphy wrote:
>
> > Jay Willingham wrote:
> >>
> >> Telling people in a technology driven society to
> back off on using
> >> that
> >> technology is simply not going to work. Ask Gray
> Davis.
> >
> > There's a difference between telling people to
> stop driving cars and
> > asking them
> > to use cars more prudently & efficiently. It
> would not be in any
> > serious sense a
> > backing off of technology to get people to stop
> driving SUVs.
> >
> > Shalom,
> > George
>
>
> > Bill Hamilton Rochester, MI
> 248 652 4148
>
>

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Received on Thu Dec 4 20:09:57 2003