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Originally Posted by docwra
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?
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A truck will last 20 years or more where cars or small suv's are disposable.
Plus you can haul and tow and you ride higher so you can see over all the other vehicles.
In Canada and the USA there is a saying "A man with a truck is never broke"