And the ones that I am familiar with out there, mostly from people who used to like cars but now have too many kids to fit into a hot hatchback, tend to fall into the “compact SUV” subsegment, which totally does fit in parking spots and meet current EU regulations.
Also I wouldn’t underestimate the size of the US monstrosities. Made me look it up. The most popular American pickup is 20 cm wider and a whopping 2 meters longer than the most popular EU SUV. I had to double check that, that’s a tall NBA center longer. You could park a whole Smart FortTwo behind your SUV and still almost fit in the footprint of a Ford F150.
You could also buy both the SUV and the Smart and still have money left over before you can afford the Ford. And that’s not accounting the US prices may not be listing taxes.
Seriously, regulations aren’t the only reason car tastes have diverged. It’s not like Ford doesn’t sell cars in Europe. A nontrivial part of this has been Trump and his idiotic followers making shit up to justify things they don’t like.
Large SUVs? Not many, no.
My point exactly.
And the ones that I am familiar with out there, mostly from people who used to like cars but now have too many kids to fit into a hot hatchback, tend to fall into the “compact SUV” subsegment, which totally does fit in parking spots and meet current EU regulations.
Also I wouldn’t underestimate the size of the US monstrosities. Made me look it up. The most popular American pickup is 20 cm wider and a whopping 2 meters longer than the most popular EU SUV. I had to double check that, that’s a tall NBA center longer. You could park a whole Smart FortTwo behind your SUV and still almost fit in the footprint of a Ford F150.
You could also buy both the SUV and the Smart and still have money left over before you can afford the Ford. And that’s not accounting the US prices may not be listing taxes.
Seriously, regulations aren’t the only reason car tastes have diverged. It’s not like Ford doesn’t sell cars in Europe. A nontrivial part of this has been Trump and his idiotic followers making shit up to justify things they don’t like.