Walking in Waterloo Region

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Can't really blame the car companies for not making sedans when people don't want to buy them. If people wanted them, there would be many more sedans available. Car companies don't really care what body shape they sell, as long as they sell (profitable) cars.

Then it’s just a coincidence that the only cars they are selling these days are higher margin monstrosities, spurred along by “consumer choice” in the highway mad max arms race.

Many manufacturers still make sedans, hatchbacks, and other lower, smaller cars (although wagons are almost extinct here). Without total cooperation from every vehicle brand there can't be a conspiracy to simply remove them as an option from the consumer. The ones who dropped those types of vehicles simply decided it's not worth competing in that segment, but the segment still exists. Even more so outside of North America.

That's not the say they couldn't be achieving a similar end by means of advertisement, regulatory capture, and lobbying.