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Submission + - Sedans Aren't Dead. American Sedans Are (bloomberg.com) 3

Submitted by gollum123
gollum123 writes: With the recent news that both General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. will soon be exiting the sedan market in the U.S., to focus on high margin trucks and SUVs, I got to wondering just how badly things have deteriorated for the U.S. car makers. Much of the analysis about Ford and GM’s exit from the sedan market stressed that sedan sales have lost ground in recent years “as consumers have gravitated toward pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles,” as the New York Times put it. If you look at the historical sales figures of the top Japanese sedans, you’ll see a small decline in recent years, but nothing like the big drop-off in sales that have hammered the American companies. So in addition to the overall decline in sedan sales, there is a second, largely overlooked, dynamic taking place: Americans have only stopped buying American sedans, not Japanese sedans. The American car companies now say they are going to count on profits from trucks and SUVs while moving toward autonomous and all-electric vehicles. They had better hope that transition takes place quickly. the leading American SUV? It’s the Chevy Equinox. Last year, Chevrolet sold 290,000 of them — 100,000 fewer than the Toyota Camry.

Comment Outliers? (Score 1) 125

by extremescholar (#47534255) Attached to: Google Looking To Define a Healthy Human
Are they going to really look at the outliers? I'm 6'6" (almost 2.0M) tall. I personally think that some of the health metrics use "average" people and assume linearity for weight, calorie consumption, etc. We need to check the extremely tall, the extremely short as well as weight variations in a large sample.

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