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> If I’m buying a car, I obviously want the largest car I can afford

Is that obvious? I guess I'm weird, as I always want the smallest car I can get that gives me the features I want. I'm constantly annoyed that I end up in larger cars than I ideally want because that's basically the choice I'm given.

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> Is that obvious?

The best-selling cars in the US are (and from afar) the F150 and the Dodge RAM, so empirically it seems correct.

I mean the US effectively outlawed an arguably most versatile of all vehicles for vast spaces of US, the compact truck, which fits somewhere in the middle of vehicle sizes. I suspect most of those people had to move to another class, perhaps to these larger trucks.

By themselves, the F150 and the Ram sell over 1.5 millions units per year.

I can not believe that yearly, ~0.7% of the US adult population needs a truck.

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