An analysis of America's most popular trucks and SUVs shows they now rival the dimensions of the World War II tanks American auto makers once helped build. American trucks and SUVs have gotten bigger over the years, and pickup trucks in particular are the most popular, with the Ford F150, Chevrolet Silverado and the Dodge Ram 1500 the best selling for 2020. All three are longer than the 1942 vintage M4 Sherman
Daily Mail: Road warriors: How American SUVs are now bigger than the TANKS that fought in World War II
* As American pickups and SUVs increase in size, they have grown to rival the tanks manufacturers produced to fight World War II
* The vehicles are also popular, with pickups making up the top three most popular vehicles in the US in 2020
* As far as length, the trucks and SUVs often have the tanks beat, with the ever popular Ford F150 topping out at 250 inches long, and the Chevy Silverado at 266 inches, compared to just 228 inches for the Sherman
* The vintage war machines are often taller, however, with the Sherman rising to 108 inches
As American trucks and SUVs have gotten bigger, they now rival the size of the tanks American auto makers once helped build to win World War II.
Pickup trucks are the most popular vehicles in the nation, with SUVs trailing not far behind, and they now in many cases exceed the length of the American M4 Sherman produced at the outset of America's involvement in the war in 1942.
The tank was a mainstay of the Allied forces during the conflict, and American auto giants GM, Ford and Chrysler helped produce 50,000 of the steel beasts, before going back to producing civilian vehicles for the people back home.
But since then, the civilian vehicles have slowly grown in size to become the behemoths of the road they are today.
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WNU Editor: WOW! This is a surprise.
2 comments:
LoL. America is a land of no mass transit outside cities, and is three thousand miles coast to coast. The article fails to mention the modern SUV a weighs less than a tenth of the ww2 tanks and gets ten to fifteen times the mileage. European global warming tripe.
you can easily see by looking at the photographs that the SUVs/Pickup trucks are not as big as WW2 tanks--yet they lying news headlines claim they are. The news is filled with nothing but lies.
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