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Originally Posted by Sir Digalot  i never understood any of the manufactuers possibly with the exception of chrysler who never really had a huge european market in the first place, but ford and GM have been successfully making small cars for years in europe.
maybe they beleive americans do not want them because of all the hype surrounding how unsafe they are.
10 years ago i would have put my brand new supermini up against many of the cars rolling on american roads.
i hate out here however that they insist on an autobox for a small car... if it is small ( 2.0 or less ) give me a manual trans anyday |
They have it in their heads we don't buy small cars. We don't, but it's only because they've never offered us anything worth 2 cents. I mean look at their last attempts, the Omni's and Chevettes... garbage. The last good hatchback we had was the VW's of the 80's- early 90's. And surprise, surprise... they sold like hotcakes.
Even the exception to the rule they managed to muck up. Ford had a good thing in the Focus, good reviews etc... but when they came out with a redesign they only offered it only in Europe for 4 years (an eternity). We were stuck with the old one and of course it became a dinosaur. Even honda and toyota are guilty of turning their hatchbacks sold in the rest of the world into de-tuned dogs with trunks tacked onto the back.