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Originally Posted by jonesy
When I hear 'American gas guzzler' i think of big 1960's cars, when there were few imports.
I would say now that Armada's and Tundra's and Sequoias are just as much gas guzzlers as NA cars. Of the cars sold in NA, the 'american' ones probably have the same economy as the rest of them on average.
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However all those vehicles were made specificaly for the NA market, and would not even exist otherwise.
Generally, the entire world uses vehicles to do a job, and they care about nothing more than the vehicles ability to do the job. In NA, it is all about comfort, style, power, all components which use more energy to produce and make vehicles less efficient. This metality is trickling into other cultures but the US love affair with the automobile alone is to blame for the mass of inefficient vehicles on the road.