Crossovers, SUVs and trucks are taking over as many consumers idea of a "mainstream family vehicle," newly released search data from Canada's biggest online auto marketplace suggests. Autotrader.ca published its annual list of the top 10 most-searched vehicle models on Saturday. Further, overall searches for minivans on the site reached a new low, accounting for only 2.58 per cent of all search traffic. "Obviously, we're seeing a shifting of the paradigm of what a mainstream family looks like," Bettencourt said in a phone interview. Fewer and fewer companies are making minivans, and those that are making them are increasingly shifting resources away from minivans," Bettencourt explained.

Source: CBC News December 29, 2018 20:16 UTC