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Originally Posted by gosi
It always interesting to see the european point of view in all of this. Europeans see american cars as wasteful excess, while unsuprisingly Americans see our 2.0 turbodiesels and 1l petrols as being “severly underpowered” even though we cruise at 80-100mph in them, while they need a 5.0 v8 to “merge safely” to their 60mph speed limit...  |
Both are somewhat stereotypes. Some of the constraints are also related to urban design, parking, mass transit, etc... It's not like big European can manufacturers aren't making excessive V8 cars (or turbo 6's, V10s, V12s). Marketing is the other big factor. It's probably not in the average American's dna to want an econobox that looks exactly the same to every other neighboor. Saloons/sedans are quite rare in much of Europe.