With gas costs spiralling upwards, demand for mega automobiles could also be on the decline. However electrical automobiles have their downsides as properly.
Australia is below assault from an invasive species: completely huge vehicles. The epitome of the development is the big RAM 3500 and its overweight American stablemates, the RAM 2500 and RAM 1500. The Chevrolet Silverado is an equally obscene American lump. These are offered as passenger automobiles however their scale resembles a bus or truck.
Even earlier than the American vehicles landed on our streets, jutting out over the sting of the parking bay and blocking footpaths, we had swung to huge utes. Hilux and Ranger have been battling it out for supremacy since 2018, as the following chart exhibits.
What’s fascinating is to look even earlier. We weren’t at all times obsessive about huge utes. In reality, the biggest-selling automobiles on this nation had been, for a number of years, petite. We drove hatchbacks.
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