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Chart: Figure 3.5. Average New Vehicle Weight by Vehicle Type Source: Carscoops dot com, "Vehicles In The U.S. Are Becoming Heavier But Also More Powerful Than Ever Before" Six line charts, each showing weight (lbs) for model years 1975 to 2021. For categories: ALL, Sedan/Wagon, Car SUV, Truck SUV, Minivan/Van, Pickup. ALL drops from above 4,000 to around 3,250 around 1980, then begins climbing in the late 80s to over 4,000 again early aughts, hovering around that line before a slight uptick after 2015. Sedan/Wagon follows similar course, falling closer to 3,000 before climbing to 3,500 and hovering thereafter. Car SUV starts at same place, drops sharply to near 3,250 one year, jumps back up to 4,000, drop sharply again one year in early 80s to above 2,500, recovers to 3,500, where flat until early 90s, then jaggedly up to below 4,000. Now declining again. Truck SUV & Minivan/Van have tighter variation, but largely same trend of low point mid-80s, both starting near 4,250 in '75, dropping into late 80s, with former climbing toward 4,750 into oughts, before steady decline, latter hovering around 4,500 since 90s. Both are up since '75, but marginally. Pickup begins about 4,000 in '75, drops like others before 3,500 floor in mid-80s, then climbs steadily to 5,500 early last decade, only showing decline 2015 onward.

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Chart: Figure 3.5. Average New Vehicle Weight by Vehicle Type Source: Carscoops dot com, "Vehicles In The U.S. Are Becoming Heavier But Also More Powerful Than Ever Before" Six line charts, each showing weight (lbs) for model years 1975 to 2021. For categories: ALL, Sedan/Wagon, Car SUV, Truck SUV, Minivan/Van, Pickup. ALL drops from above 4,000 to around 3,250 around 1980, then begins climbing in the late 80s to over 4,000 again early aughts, hovering around that line before a slight uptick after 2015. Sedan/Wagon follows similar course, falling closer to 3,000 before climbing to 3,500 and hovering thereafter. Car SUV starts at same place, drops sharply to near 3,250 one year, jumps back up to 4,000, drop sharply again one year in early 80s to above 2,500, recovers to 3,500, where flat until early 90s, then jaggedly up to below 4,000. Now declining again. Truck SUV & Minivan/Van have tighter variation, but largely same trend of low point mid-80s, both starting near 4,250 in '75, dropping into late 80s, with former climbing toward 4,750 into oughts, before steady decline, latter hovering around 4,500 since 90s. Both are up since '75, but marginally. Pickup begins about 4,000 in '75, drops like others before 3,500 floor in mid-80s, then climbs steadily to 5,500 early last decade, only showing decline 2015 onward.
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Interestingly, immediately obvious candidate, that our vehicles are getting heavier—thus more likely to result in deaths when accidents do occur—doesn't seem to be reflected by data either.
If anything, with exception of pickups, vehicle weight has been flat or declining since 2005. Yet, decade into that trend is when U.S. traffic fatality rates start climbing.
Now, NTSB data might reveal that rising traffic fatality was driven by monster pickup trucks. Only those have been growing since 80s.

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