Morford isn't exactly known for subtlety, though:

You can sense the shadow, the darkening, the imminent and oily doom. The dinosaurs are trembling, scribbling out their wills as fast as possible. They know the end is near, the signs are all in place, as that giant $63K Toyota Land Cruiser V8 you bought just a couple years ago violently depreciates down to less than half of what you paid for it. Ouch.

Yes, the imploding petroleum economy has spoken, and this is what it said: The era of the big, happy, dumb SUV is over.

It is kind of interesting to me.  We're watching the invisible hand of the market as it curls into a fist and beats the snot out of slowly-evolving automakers...