Here's a radical thought for the car-buying public. Small cars have no future. In fact, all those sub-compacts and compacts, the Hyundai Accents and the Mazda 3s, the Toyota Yarises — even the perennially popular Honda Civics — may soon be nothing but scrap.
In fact, by buying them instead of heavier, sturdier mid-size sedans or even pickup trucks, lots of well-meaning Canadians are just contributing to landfills. So says Richmond Hill, Ont., automotive analyst Dennis DesRosiers, whose most recent study on vehicle longevity tends to point out certain truisms consumers ignore.
Never mind the panic at the pumps, DesRosiers says, or the "misfocused" green movement. Small cars, even the most popular brands like Toyota, can be bad investments, both for the planet and the pocketbook.
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