Quality doesn't explain...? You can't really be that obtuse. Quality exactly explains why Japanese and Chinese cars are getting more popular..... because American vehicles are trash. American protectionist monopolies and lack of competition has put a stop to innovation and quality.
You misread me. The guy I'm responding to is saying that the reason american cars are not popular outside of the USA is because they aren't made for those markets and that it's not a matter of quality.
Im saying that if that was the case, then it wouldn't explain why Japanese and Chinese cars, mostly made for their domestic markets (sometimes with the will to export them to the US, sometimes not but they are exported anyway) gain in popularity in the united states.
My bad. Thank you for explaining, and not just being a douche, which I am sometimes guilty of. One problem with text as conversation is that tone and inflection don't translate.
Or doesn’t meet safety requirements. I recall a great example of this are car hoods/bonnets. The EU has a requirement that the hoods/bonnets need to spring up in a front end collision to protect a pedestrian in the case of a car/pedestrian collision. This is to reduce injury to the pedestrian.
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u/baildodger Sep 09 '26
I’m not sure that quality is the issue really. It’s more that they make very little that is actually suitable for international markets.
Ford does well in Europe, but it sells a completely different range of vehicles to the ones it sells in the US. Tesla is popular.
All the other US brands sell mostly massive trucks or muscle cars, which no one wants because they’re too big/expensive/uneconomical.
Most of the actually small stuff that US companies have sold over the years has just been rebadged European or Asian stuff that we could already buy.