The Subaru forester sedans were very popular in New England from the early 200s to like 2014. Idk just saying there are good option, there were even diesel wagons from WV that had solid efficiency later on .

[–] wraithcoop@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about replacing my 2005 car but the only thing I want to replace it with is an electric station wagon, of which Europe has several options and America has 0. I don't want a compact SUV, I just want a wagon! I'll probably leave the country before I have any options lol

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Station wagons are for mommies in the 1980s; all the cool kids want SUV and pickups.

So car manufacturers made station wagons with upright seating positions and “off road” styling and called them Crossovers.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

In reality, they just couldn't reasonably add the same markup, so they shifted to other products. Also, fuel efficiency standards based on weight made it more profitable to sell larger vehicles, so they had another reason to shift. We really got fucked from every side.

[–] wraithcoop@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, my car I always though was a hatchback, but apparently is actually classified as a crossover. The main reason I still have it (other than having been paid off) is because it still gets competitive mpg and it's so practical. I used it to take all my crap to and from college. I can carry 9ft lumber in the cabin with the passenger seat down. I've gone on a service road in a state park and I didn't get stuck.

The thought has crossed my mind to get an electric conversion for it instead of buying a new spyware riddled car 😆