That’s a joke, right? They sell about 400-500k vans a year. Real VWs, not counting rebadged Dodges. Their most common van, the Transporter, has been in continuous production along multiple generations since 1950. The VW Transporter is one of the most common vans in Europe. Your typical plumber or bigger family drives…

The base VW T6 California camper van is £44k (before VAT) in the UK. This is with a TDI diesel engine (because van) and somehow with a mandatory automatic DSG transmission.

406 coupe. This was taken at the Nürburgring (at 300+k km)

I am quite amazed by those US market cars.

Sure I have. The last one I drove was a VW Touareg. Depending on the one you have they are highly comfortable, filtering every outside sensation. That Touareg for examplle was like sitting on a sofa looking out the window, but with a steering wheel in your hands. Relaxing and, after a while, soul crushing boring.

When you’re in a crash with another vehicle, you want to be in the heaviest and tallest one of the two.

Active safety is much better in the Miata. Passive safety is much better in the minivan/SUV blob.

Imagine how fun driving would be without having to drive those wallowy fat whales.

Okay, 6 kids.

They have been and are introducing many new models, resulting in higher sales and a younger and more competitive lineup than during the GM years. So this is not just continuing sales. Employees went from 38k in 2016 to 32k in 2018.

That truly looks horrific. Worst one I've seen posted here today.

Just read up on how GM made one of the biggest European manufacturers (Opel/Vauxhall) lose money for decades, yet after they sold it to PSA (Peugeot) and PSA restructured a bit it was suddenly making money again. After a year. The ineptness of GM is really stunning.

To be fair though, the Cascada is a boat of a car. From a convertible perspective. The EOS and especially the Mini are much smaller. And more attractive because of it IMHO, but that's a different discussion.

Peugeot is discontinuing GM tech and cars as fast as they economically can. Every time they discontinue a GM-era Opel and replace it with a PSA-tech Opel, sales go up, profit goes up, praise in reviews goes up and I guess reliability goes up as well.

Bruin is simply Dutch for brown. Lots of people in the English speaking world are called brown...

It's the Netherlands, not some third world country/the US. Politicians are not as corrupt.

Fair enough. I believe a better comparison is to compare a compact hatch to compact sedans (Corolla, ...) and compact crossovers (CX-3, CX-5, ...)

Those were never offered in Europe as Infinitis. They were Nissans here, and did not have a premium badge, image or price. The Primera is what you bought when you could not afford (the purchase price of a) VW Passat or Peugeot 406.

Yes. And that is exactly why the US is found guilty of subsidizing Boeing. So the defence contracts help and hinder Boeing at the same time.

I’m in Germany right now, and I really never see an Infiniti here. I have seen a few in my life.