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Originally Posted by mkoesel
Though I don't have any data, I would not be surprised at all if overall passenger car sales in the US lost a couple of percentage points of market share to light trucks this year.
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Don't usually reply to my own posts, but here's some data:
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/pag...autosales.html
Trucks up 7% on the year, cars down 8.4%. That's remarkable.
And looking at the bar graph, as recently as December of 2014 cars and trucks were still trending relatively even. But look at the graph for this past month (and this whole year for that matter). Trucks are surging way ahead now.
People talk about the death of the gasoline engine and the manual transmission, but perhaps more alarming is the the death of the car itself. At this rate, in the not-so-distant future, passenger cars themselves will be specialty items, along the lines of what two-door sports cars are today. Sure, we are headed toward a driverless world anyway, but even being a passenger in a sports sedan beats doing the same in an SUV.