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Old 12-03-2013, 06:22 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by euromodder View Post
Reality check : it WON'T happen anytime soon.
IMO, it won't happen at all.

Joe Average hardly wants to get into more sensibly sized Euro or Jap cars.

What makes you think the US consumer - yeah, some generalisation if there ever was one - will jump out of his monster truck / SUV and into that redesigned, cramped new architecture , or into rearward facing seats ?
What Joe average wants is taught to him and based on what he can afford, as soon as one or both changes there will be a lot of arm flailing, like the leaf haters or prior prius haters, after a while though it will slowly penetrate the market,
So long as the big auto makers don't offer alternative transport however the pace of change will continue to be very slow.

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