From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 23:45:32 MST
Russell Blackford writes
> Yeah, the Civic is a reasonably sized and reasonably powerful car for most
> purposes these days. It may well be what I *will* buy next if I can ever
> afford to go and get a new car. Honda makes cars that are really sweet to
> drive. So exactly why are cars like this so unpopular in the US? Is it the
> felt need to chauffeur around a stack of kids in something that feels
> "protective"?
Hi Russell! Yes, welcome back! Here are my two cents: America was taken
over by automobiles quite a few years sooner than most other countries,
and the large size of American cars could be a relic of that era. If
you build streets and highways to accommodate large cars, it could have
a lingering effect.
There have to be a number of countries, like Mexico and Canada that
always got most of their cars from the U.S., so it would be interesting
to know if tastes in those countries more nearly resemble U.S. tastes,
or European tastes. From what you write, it would sound like Oz favors
European-sized cars.
Lee
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