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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
 You are kidding right? America's car culture definately is a ton more substantial than being centered around just pickups. I hope you are joking so I won't have to type up a 3 page essay about the U.S. car culture that focuses on classic cars from the 30s and 40s, to the muscle car era,to the numerous international race winners from the US to the import scene here etc...
Just because we have some folks that make their trucks go faster in a straight line than some Ferraris doesn't mean that's all we've got.  |
I work for a large American car company in Europe as an engineer. I have learnt from my American colleagues' that they sell more trucks (I count SUV's as trucks) than passenger vehicles. I am not trying to generalise, but the point I'm trying to make is that there is NO INCENTIVE in America to buy small cars, and the general trend is to buy bigger cars.
Before you saw the SMART car your definition of a small car is say, the Ford Focus or the Toyota Corolla??? In Europe that is a medium size car. Our idea of a small car is a SMART, Ford Ka, VW Polo (last two probably not available in the US).
*runs and hides*