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Originally Posted by JSH
In the EU the best selling car in the EU is the VW Golf. It is a family car there and on the larger side of normal cars. A lot of the best sellers are superminis - what we call subcompacts in the USA. Toyota Yaris, VW Polo, Renault Clio, Peugeot 208, Opel Corsa - they are all subcompact cars that are in the best selling 10 cars in Europe.
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Brazil had a larger European influence since the VW Beetle, even though the American landyachts once used to be the rule. Well, some models specific to "emerging" markets and often not available in Europe have been offered here instead of some European counterpart, and supermini-based sedans became quite widespread as they tend to address better the needs for a single car to an entire household, even when those underpowered naturally-aspirated 1.0L engines were often the only one available due to lower taxation.
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Europeans drive small cars because gas is expensive. They aren't shorter than Americans yet somehow they manage to fit families in much smaller cars than what we drive in the USA
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Odd enough, this beauty used to be a luxury car in Brazil.
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Just like their construction workers, plumbers, and electricians manage to build things without everyone driving a F-150
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Nowadays you could even find something like this at a construction site.
While it's still easy to see a 4-cyl S10 being used for actual work, often heavier than what some American contractor would do with its own F-150.
