cars

Following up on our post discussing the need for Americans to drive smaller cars, we provide a list of the most popular U.S. passenger vehicles in 2025 ranked from least to most considerate, based on vehicle size and fuel efficiency. We ranked all 94 passenger vehicles with more than 50,000 reported U.S. sales in 2025. Manufacturers report only aggregate sales for all configurations of each vehicle. We tried to consider the most popular configuration for each vehicle, while also trying…

Even more so than with houses, American cars have gotten larger over the past several decades. Many online articles have explained and analyzed that trend and we won’t repeat that analysis here. The EPA’s Automotive Trends Data page provides data on vehicle weights since 1975 and shows that two factors have contributed: increasing production of SUVs and trucks as compared with cars and station wagons and increasing average weights of vehicles in all classes. So, Americans are buying more SUVs and…