FuzzyDog
Eh. Myself and most of my friends are salaried workers that are making okay income for our area, but we can’t even dream of buying even small houses in our city that easily start at 1.5 Million. Meanwhile, most of these houses are owned by rich retirees. It’s just my experience, but there are plenty of groups I’ll feel bad for before them.
The original Honda Insight from 2001 got 68 highway, 60 city. And it had all the goodies you’d want in a “modern” car like airbags, aircon, heat, 2 relatively roomy seats, etc. Close to the Doodlebug’s best possible mpg with twice the passengers.
Unfortunately, after 20 years of improvement in auto design, material science, etc, the new Honda Insight in 2022 actually has notably worse city /highway mpg from the original, because it’s so much bigger.
I guess my point is all the innovation in the world won’t fix the fundamental problem that people want bigger and bigger cars?