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Originally Posted by 90503
A point I was trying to make earlier. Thank you. It's sort of disingenuous to blame the sedan segment decline of GM and Ford on customer preferences and demands when Honda, Toyota, Nissan all do very well selling sedans.
Customers see this and want to spend their sedan money on makers who believe in the products they make and do not treat models in their own lineup like unwanted step-children like gm has with Chevy sedans. Why would someone be brand loyal to that scenario?
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As a European entirely this. JP/EU cars through the 80's and 90's were much better made, more reliable and dynamically better than US stuff and we also got efficiency into the bargain, its only recently that they have started running them close IMO.
The truck thing is difficult to understand from a European viewpoint, for a start why someone chooses a commercial platform as a daily driver - Ive just checked and only 0.9% of vehicles sales in the EU are pickups.
Could GM and Ford be focusing there as its a captive market that the EU/JP are never going to target?