The Nation's Pulse
Crossover Repeal
The big automakers are making too many kinds of cars. Enough, already.
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Maybe there is a happy medium between the mostly empty shelves of a Soviet-era government supermarket and the overwhelming, wastrel overflow of supercapitalism run amok. No sane person can claim we need (or could ever hope to make use of) thirty different types of toothpaste — or the 400 or 500 different makes and models and sub-models of vehicles we currently have to choose from.
I don’t know about you, but my cup runneth over.
Enough, already.
About the Author
Eric Peters is an automotive columnist and author of Automotive Atrocities: The Cars You Love to Hate (Motor Books International) and a new book, Road Hogs.
