It has this combination of ingredients that the US doesn’t like: good, small and expensive.

Let me highlight one of the cars in your list, the Accent.

Owning a car is indeed expensive. And cars are in general slower on average than in America.

Could be, but somehow I doubt it.

The ICE-versions aren’t much better (although range is certainly greater).

The Mk1 was a regular 5 door supermini hatchback (based on the Mitsubishi Colt). It didn’t sell very well.

This market exists, and is perfectly healthy, here in Europe.

But that is already the case for ICE-powered cars. American hardly sell outside of America.

It will probably not do very well in Europe either. Lack of dealer network and no known name will be to blame.

Inexistent dealer network, no known name and chinese origin will probably seal the fate for these cars.

And so is the Ypsilon.

The Panda is much smaller and has smaller engines too.

Sorry I meant auto in the original post. Mixed up the words 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Up GTI is not available with a manual, isn’t it?

With the turbo and low weight it will be quite peppy.

The 99bhp engine is turbocharged.

Cactus is only available in 2WD guise.

A body-on-frame Suburban and three cylinder T-Roc with a six speed are vastly different, yet both count towards that crossoverisation.

Ford has plenty of cars still on sale, at least Fiesta, Focus and and Mondeo (without counting on the multiple bodystyles).

Yeah A-segment cars aren’t that popular, but maybe in CUV form they would do better. This is certainly cute / good looking.