Everyone (who doesn’t have waist-down body issues) does too, but car manufacturers can’t charge as much for them.

They therefore lobby governments for tax breaks for the oversized road boats and destroy the market for Japanese kei-cars with tariffs and “safety regulations”.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/big-ute-loophole-cost-taxpayers-over-250-million-in-2023/

https://www.drive.com.au/news/imported-kei-cars-stranded-australia-blunder/

As someone who drives a 2002 sedan, it is amazing to me how large all cars have become. The only comparably sized thing from my car’s era to today’s vehicles were Hummers, which were literally regarded as an insanely oversized monstrosity at the time.

If you see a 2002 hummer next to most any modern SUV, the modern SUV is dwarfing the Hummer the way that a hummer dwarfs my little car. Its ridiculous.

Now, many of those modern monstrosities are probably getting better milage than my 02’ sedan, but imagine what insanely fuel efficient cars we could make today if modern sedans werent the size of a 2002 era station wagon? Imagine how much better our roads would be if the average passenger vehicle didnt weigh well over 4k pounds…

The modern Hummer EV weighs like 10k pounds. Why the fuck are people allowed to drive a 5-ton vehicle without a special license?