I believe there was some tax-benefit for them in the US at some point…? Then it makes a tiny bit if sense i guess.
It’s even stupider than you think. California made a rule requiring that auto makers transition to making EVs, but exempted certain heavy vehicles from the transition, and auto makers responded by turning every single car into a heavy exempted vehicle. Twenty years of marketing later and now you can’t convince an American to buy a reasonably-sized car, which is why crossovers are a thing.
It’s even stupider than you think. California made a rule requiring that auto makers transition to making EVs, but exempted certain heavy vehicles from the transition, and auto makers responded by turning every single car into a heavy exempted vehicle. Twenty years of marketing later and now you can’t convince an American to buy a reasonably-sized car, which is why crossovers are a thing.