I'm making a pretty blanket statement with my opening post, and clearly there are a lot of Global cars sold in the US, as well as localized variants of cars like the Jetta, Focus, etc.
What I'm referring to though are the traditional US models that are designed and built in North America (or Mexico) by the big 3. Ford, GM and whats left of Chrysler.
Cars like the Impala, F150, Caliber etc.
These are not sophisticated, not well built, old fashioned designs under lots of ugly plastic and metal bodies that claim to be "modern designs".
Why do Americans buy this crap?
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Originally Posted by wishIhad12
In 1995 the US Contour and the European Mondeo were all but the same car. Over time Ford pulled costs out of the US version. It ended up as a less impressive car but it also cost quite a bit less than the Euro version.
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I think this is getting to where I'm going here.
The big 3 make some pretty crap cars that DO not sell any where else in the world.
Is it because so many Americans are too proud, or too stupid to demand anything better, or is it because the big 3 have been to lazy and cheap to product and market anything better?
Have they been riding the coat tails of isolationist economics for so long that big crap cars, SUV's and Trucks have become the accepted Norm, and anything modern and sophisticated is shunned because it's different?