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American vehicles to flood on to UK roads

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  1. neddie
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    This is very disturbing

    “Allowing American vehicles onto the EU market on the basis of ‘mutual recognition’ of standards is a betrayal of Europe’s safety leadership, and it will cost lives. Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated U.S. pick-up trucks and SUVs – vehicles that are heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

    https://etsc.eu/etsc-mutual-recognition-deal-with-u-s-will-cost-lives-on-europes-roads/

    Posted 2 days ago #

  2. neddie
    Member

    Meanwhile, children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/29/giant-cars-motoring-uk-public-safety-paris

    Posted 2 days ago #

  3. Baldcyclist
    Member

    No one will buy most of them, they're rubbish. More likely to see an influx of cheap Chinese cars in the market.

    Posted 2 days ago #

  4. neddie
    Member

    If in the 1980s we looked at the size of cars as they are today, people would have said that “no one will buy them, they’re too big, they won’t fit on our streets”. And yet here we are, cars have grown incrementally over the years and can now barely pass each other in some streets

    If American trucks and SUVs are available and legal to buy, people will buy them, that’s for sure

    Posted 2 days ago #

  5. Baldcyclist
    Member

    They are already available if you really want one, OK some models will sell. American cars are objectively worse than Eurpoean, and Japanese/Korean cars though.

    US manufacturers have released a number of cars into UK/EU markets already under different brands, no one bought them. Chrysler and Cadalac tried to break into UK/EU market already and failed. Jeep cars are also already readily available in UK and no one wants them (except the wee one whatever that is called).

    People won't just buy something cause it's bigger and available, it needs to be good as well, and they're objectively not.

    Posted 2 days ago #

  6. Baldcyclist
    Member

    Here's a list of the 20 most popular cars in the US in 2023. 3/4 of them are already available here. Most of them are Asian, even Americans don't want American cars, so I think we can hold off worrying for a wee bit:

    https://www.motor1.com/features/703891/best-selling-cars-2023/

    Posted 2 days ago #

  7. Yodhrin
    Member

    I think you're underestimating the motor industry Baldcyclist, remember these are the guys who managed to turn the American public from hating cars and thinking they were stinky, loud, dangerous and too fast to creating the necessary public support to criminalize crossing the street at-will in about 15 years. They managed to bamboozle American consumers into abandoning the cheaper, more efficient, more spacious estate cars and minivans in favour of gigantic SUVs. And we're not immune over here, half the reason attempts to make cycling more prevalent get such pushback is people still buy cars based on the industry's fantasy marketing of celebrities swooshing majestically through empty streets in their motors and that idea of "car = freedom" has thoroughly bedded in.

    If it would boost their profits, they will throw their entire weight into persuading people to buy these monstrosities and lobbying for looser regs.

    Posted 2 days ago #

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