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Originally Posted by euromodder
It was not a question of wanting to, it was one of being able to afford it.
Most Europeans simply couldn't afford to buy and run the huge American cars of the late 40s and 50s.
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American cars of the '40s and early '50s weren't all that huge. See for instance the links to Chevys from 1950-1959: the car nearly doubled in size in that decade. Same for Ford, etc.
And you're STILL evading the question I've been asking, which is why on earth did so many Americans want (or accept, at least) those large cars? And why did & do the US automakers go on building them, when the invasion of the VW Beetle (1959, if I'm not mistaken), followed by the Japanese, demonstrated that there were a sizeable fraction of Americans who do want smaller cars?