They want the same kinds of mandatory safety and environment items here too!
So we get all the good cars here?
Maybe its more that those ridiculously designed, extremely wasteful and totally outdated dinosaurs of automobile development that are still being continually thrown on some regional markets are not attracting
any customers here at all. People here usually look down pitifully and are genuinely full of sorrow for anyone buying such trash.
Here in Europe one litre of
good table wine can be bought much cheaper than one litre of fuel. Its been that way for the past 35 years or so, and we're not a country of alcoholics. That may explain why economical cars are normal in Europe. The Mirage has plenty of competition here.
Besides that, a horrific news item about climate change due to exessive energy consumption just came in on the radio: The west antarctic ice-shelf is past the point of no return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pYHMx5bN8
Or own children will see the ocean start rising in their own lifetime at least to five or seven metres. Heaven knows what consequences they will suffer. Maybe Philadelphia London or Mumbay will become scuba-diving attractions...