American vehicles are huge. Now Trump is pressuring Europe and Asia to allow the U.S. to export cars that don't meet local safety standards
Trump is Pressuring Other Nations to Give Our Dangerous Cars a Pass
Would anyone even want to buy them in those markets?
Judging by the increase in F150 trucks on European roads.. yes.
They are not officially sold here but there are ways to import them legally and "affordably".
There is a subset of the population that will import these cars regardless of whether they are suitable for the environment.
Luckily, they are a small subset. It's still annoying when they take their monster for shopping and block three parking lots.
Interesting. Have you seen a F250 or an F350?
The Ford F150 is a work truck. It was designed for (prototyped with) hauling duty in construction and mining ops. It's meant to carry lots of big things that won't reliably fit in a van.
However, using an F150 as your daily driver / shop runner is ridiculous, and you need money to support that fuel economy it doesn't get.
This coming from an American, in a state where it's culturally required to drive monster trucks as commuter cars.
I've yet to see to see one. Where have you seen them? Is it Germany or the Netherlands?
The road in front of my house isn't getting any bigger, 2 big trucks are not going to fit and I will sit and laugh as they try.
They're very incompatible with infrastructure and environment.
When international companies build cars with the US in mind, they ensure they make sense in the US.
American cars are not tough enough for off-roading in most countries. They're too big and inefficient for on-road and urban. Where they do fit in, there's already many much better options and maintaining those fit-fir-purpose cars through their lifetime is much easier and cheaper because of after sale support and part availability.
You can improve a US car with modification, but it also isn't cheap and easy.
US car manufacturers can't compete with European and Asian manufacturers. They barely pull it off domestically. Only Ford has managed with its appeal to commercial fleets and some cars you can't even get in the US—that's how it's done if you want your shit bought.
Judging by the amount of pickup trucks that started to infest the streets around here the answer is probably yes.
I've seen more cybertrucks in Ontario than NY. Idiots live everywhere
Fuck off
Fucking try it, my wall is a lot cheaper to replace than your car door. Bit of mortar, maybe a replacement brick or two.
America made cars so big and expensive that nobody can afford to buy them anymore. We need more electric sub-compacts that won't break the bank. Why would Europe even want those behemoths?
The best part is that material costs are often some of the lowest costs in making a product. Think about how much more metal and plastic is actually in an SUV compared to a small car. Yea the envelope is bigger but it’s mostly air, and those engines aren’t actually that much bigger. SUVs do not cost more in advertising, employee payroll, safety testing, or R&D and yet will cost 50-100% more than a smaller vehicle because “reasons”. And people will buy them also because “reasons”.
AI made that graph.
so the graph is wrong. can you make an accurate graph and repost?
Who the fuck generates graphs with AI? Genuine slopper behavior.
"AI helped me make this graph" Could just mean they got AI to write some matplotlib to plot real data. Though it is pretty slapdash to just state that with no further explaination.
What make you think the graph is wrong ?
About nobody wants those cars here in Europe. They are too big for the roads, do not fit in any normal parking lot, and they guzzle gas as if it cost nothing.
That some of those cars are actually not considered road-worthy here for some very good reasons is just the icing on the cake.
In return the US buys European trains, that won't fit their rails?
Then we would exchange stuff, we can't use.
Trump is such an idiot, that he drops out of the IQ scale
His IQ is measured in letters not numbers