Other than North America and Mid East? I am talking about popularity. Do people in Europe actually buy American cars?
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Employees of FORD and GM prefer to buy Japanese or German cars, and that is a fact :D
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American car companies sell very few American cars in Europe. What they do instead is have the European divisions of their companies design and build cars that are 100% European.
These cars are rarely sold in North America. Cars like the Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Vectra (made by GM) are pretty good and extremely popular, but not sold in North America.
Basically, Europeans are willing to pay more for smaller cars than North Americans are. This means that the Europe-only cars made by American companies are much better than what they sell in North America, though they are more expensive and smaller.
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If you try to merge with the needs of the local market and give them what they want then i suppose the label doesnt matter as much. Like back in the 90s it was great what Suzuki did by naming all their cars locally like the margallas and ravis and bolans and khybers and what not.
Last i heard the Ford Focus was pretty hot in the UK?
Sincerely,
Captain Lota
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The Ford Focus isn’t so much an American car as a European car in the US. It was designed and built and sold in Europe for several years before Ford launched it in North America.
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american cars like saab, mazda and lamborghini are pretty popular in Europe.
additionally european cars like chrysler and dodge are quite popular in US
:)
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In general american cars r not popular over here..(talkin abt holland) i dont know abt the rest of europe..
i think.. french, german n japanese cars r more popular over here..
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^Same in UK
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Not really, they usually buy their own or Japanese ones…
But my Uncle visited America from Wales and really like a new Cadillac there (don’t know wot model)…so he’s planning to buy one from America and ship it to the U.K., since he doesn’t mind having the steering wheel on the left side.
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They might prefer it but I have heard that they expect you to have the make by the employer/company when you go to work. Being in Michigan until last year (where the big three are headquarted), I know a lot of guys who bought FORD or GM or Chrysler right after they started working their.
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American cars are piece of you know what. People living in Europe and rest of the world besides Middle East are smart enough to not to buy American cars.
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is dodge a european company? if so then i would say European cars rock ..if its American car then hey i still like my car ;)
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Asif, If GM (Garbage Motors), Chrysler (Cry Silliy Ear) or FORD (Found on Road Dead) pay for gas, cover mechanical expenses, and offer half the selling price for new, then Hey! Why not?
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As mentioned above, European prefer to drive European cars; mostly German, like Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, etc.
I myself drive a Ford Mondeo (and it sucks). I want to buy a German car asap.
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^ Ford Mondeo is not an American car.
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Americans cars suck! They are ugly, unreliable, less performance, and break down quicker. Take a look at Ford Focus. What an ugly peice of ****! & all the chevy's - very ugly exteriors (except corvette).
Stick to Japanese and German cars. Better performance, last longer, look sexy, and are reliable.
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I would absolutely love to have a great big gas guzzler like the hummer for example. But american cars need to come with american fuel prices ! if petrol prices were the same in europe, i bet american cars would be a lot more popular.
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^ Even In America patrol prices are not that cheap anymore. SUVs sales have gone down dramatically. Hummer came out with its smaller SUV H3, but it is still too big for the high price of gasoline. In next few years American will also start driving small nice fuel efficient cars like Europeans or the rest of the world does. Thank God…. It’s about time.
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^ The small car revolution is already taking over here in canada. For the longest time the smallest car has been Chevy Firefly / Geo Metro / Suzuki Metro. Theres others ones like Ford Fiesta and theres one by nissan i think but theyre total POS cars. The recent subcompact entries have been the Toyota Echo Hatchback, Mercedes SMART, Mini Cooper (although im not too sure about its fuel economy). And just a week ago Toyota again launched its newest subcompact Yaris (yaris.ca). People laugh at these cars still but these car owners are the ones laughing at the pump right now.
Sincerely,
Captain Lota
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Yep it’s now small car drivers’ turn to laugh at those SUV drivers at the pump.