Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a pipe dream. An exhaust pipe dream, to be particular.
And it includes station wagons.
The brand new requirements would scale back the miles-per-gallon business fleetwide common for light-duty autos from 50.4 miles per gallon below a Biden-era rule to roughly 34.5 miles per gallon by the 2031 mannequin 12 months.
“This rule will really mean you can deliver again the Nineteen Seventies station wagon — perhaps just a little wooden paneling on the aspect,” Duffy proposed. “We are able to deliver again option to shoppers, so yeah, the minivan is superior, however perhaps the station wagon is cool, too.”
Though the station wagon was a typical sight on American roads in the course of the mid-Twentieth century, they misplaced market share to SUVs and crossovers and haven’t been produced within the U.S. since 2020, based on TopSpeed.com.
However whereas Duffy could also be nostalgic for the wood-paneled station wagon, his zeal didn’t look like shared by others on social media.
Duffy’s station wagon revival dream isn’t his solely latest want to return to the times of yore that has made him a goal of ridicule.
CORRECTION: This story has been amended to appropriate the primary title of fictional character Clark Griswold.