The problem with these kind of cars, and the reason companies are reluctant to sell them here, is that Americans only like these kind of cars when gas is expensive. The minute we start thinking gas is cheap again (whether it’s actually cheap or we’ve just gotten used to the cost) we dump economy cars like small pox laden blankets and the car companies are stuck with a bunch of stock they can’t sell and factories that need to be converted back to SUV building.
If that is true... how come Honda and Toyota are still here?
They didn’t launch SUVs until recently and did just fine without them.