What impressed me is that the writer is a Brit and is much more used to seeing and driving this sort of crap than we Americans. And when a EURO says it’s dangerous, uncomfortable junk - believe it!
Not only is the writer a Brit, he probably the ONE Brit who’d know the insides of a car better than anyone...Jeremy Clarkson, one of the three hosts of the UK’s “Top Gear” show.
These guys test cars (among other things) for a living, and usually make it entertaining when they do. For instance, Jeremy took a Ford Fiesta (Europe-only Ford vehicle, about the size of a Focus) and actually had it loaded aboard a Royal Navy landing craft, and the other three passengers were British Royal Marines. The Marines were holding a landing exercise. Clarkson actually drove the car off the landing craft amongst the tanks and other Marines on foot, through the surf, and onto the beach, where the Marines got out and did their thing. I was laughing so hard I was crying.
In any case...if Jeremy Clarkson says a car is a worthless piece of crap, believe him and avoid that car like the plague
That’s a valid point to be sure. They do see more of the smaller cars than we do.