Americans love hatchback shaped vehicles as long as they are also taller/higher off the ground so they can think of them as SUVs.
Hatchbacks are reasonably popular in the compact car segment with the Ford Focus, VW Golf and Subaru Impreza selling in pretty decent numbers.
Hatchbacks are also popular when they're liftback sedans like the Audi A7.
But for a long time there was a stigma associated with hatchbacks, same as there is a stigma with minivans. People just irrationally hate them.
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Originally Posted by Fundguy1
Thank Carter and his CAFE rules for killing the station wagon. It was intended to get us all into fuel efficient cars. Instead it got us into gas guzzling SUVs. Bravo!  |
Station wagons died off because minivans did their jobs better, and then the majority of people decided both minivans and station wagons were too mommy-mobile looking so switched to SUVs.