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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EPA essentially banned station wagons and people realized you can have spacious, often luxurious, vehicles for their children and whatever shit they're carrying. I prefer mid-sized sedans, but I only have dogs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, they banned estate cars? Iโ€™ve rented them at various points over the last ten years in the US, what exactly was banned about them?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This has some pretty good info on both. CAFE standards have perverse incentives (who could have guessed).