Detroit is hurting. Last couple of car postings, 20 hottest cars of 2022 and the like, were all foreign cars, mostly Japanese or Korean. Except for single mentions of Corvette, nothing made in Detroit. It didn’t used to be that way. Ads and TV shows needing wheels now a days always show a nice Detroit car, usually a convertible, from the 60’s or 70s. Never a Toyota or a Honda.
You would think one of the big three could pull the old tooling out of storage and knock off a few thousand classics from the old days and sell them. AND, cars from the old days did not need semiconductors, except for a handful of simple ones in the car radio.
Far as I can see, Detroit doesn’t make real sedans any more, just little econoboxes. Closest you can come to a real sedan is a “crossover” SUV. Crossovers are built on car chassis, the body extends the roof clear back to the rear bumper. You don’t get a trunk, but you do get some storage space behind the rear seat. Some models allow the rear seat[s] to fold down or come out to allow big stuff like sheets of plywood to fit inside.
The “crossover” name is historical. The early SUV’s, Chevy carryalls and Jeep Wagoneers were built on pickup truck chassis, which yielded a big SUV that rode like a truck. The “crossover” SUV’s built on car chassis are smaller, gas mileage is better and the ride is better.
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