That may be your situation but Americans are using more gas today at $3 a gallon than when it was around $1 a gallon. If you look at the top selling vehicles in the US you would discover not everyone considers fuel mileage as the only criteria for the vehicle they purchase. I sure do not ;)
Fuel is heavily tax, as are vehicles in general, in all of Europe. The money to fund socialist systems must come from somewhere. One will find "free" healthcare to be rather expensive LOL
That's perceptions for you. GM is far from a truck company. They do sell a ton of trucks, and always have, but their market share (declining as it has been) has also been based on a large share of the car market. You don't believe they'd build more 30 mpg cars than anyone else simply to not sell them, do you? It would be ignorant of the marketplace to call GM just a truck company.
More than 50% of sales are of trucks. Of course they make cars but the profit (none right now) was in the trucks and SUV's
GM makes next to nothing on the cars, that's why I said they are a truck company.
bThat may be your opinion but I believe if you do a search you will discover GM sells more cars than any other in the US, they just don't have the same name on the grill.
The Ford 'F' Series is the best selling brand in the US and has been for over thirty years. They sell at a rate nearly double, or more, than the best selling cars, but GM sells more trucks than Ford, but they too do not all have the same brand name on the grill.
You are missing the point it appears. When it comes to trucks the majority of the growth in Toyota sales, over the past ten years has been in the ever lager, more powerful cars, luxury cars and trucks that most Americans want to buy, not the small and midget cars that people buy in other parts of the world.
The fact remains the average American is not like the majority in other countries, they can afford to buy and operate the vehicles they want to buy and drive. Fuel costs alone are not the determining reason buyers buy what they buy. The fast Americans are buying more gas at $3 a gallon than they did at $1 a gallon. If Americans wanted to buy small and midget cars to save a relative few hundred dollars a year on fuel, they would be buying more of those small and midget cars that are available and not the big cars and trucks they are buying, whether you agree or not is immaterial
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