There has been a pandemic for a few months now that has been limiting people to do tests like these. I think it's quite understandable they are recycling some content as a result.

I am curious about another statistic. When a Suburban crashes, how likely is it that a person in the other car dies? And when you crash a Mitsubishi Mirage, how likely is it it then that the other person dies?

Yes and no. D-segment hatchbacks did outsell sedans of the same size, however they were not so bloated looking as these BMWs. They tended to be just as slender as the sedan, just more useful.

No, the Golf competitor was the Escort. Both are compacts. The subcompact Fiesta has always been a segment below the Golf.

You are presuming Europeans drive smaller cars due to costs only. This is false. An unwieldy large SUV is cumbersome to drive/own/park in many parts of the world.

Different markets have different demands. A Maxima would not work in Europe, simply because it’s a huge non-luxury sedan and the market for non-luxury huge sedans is roughly zero. Same thing for largish SUVs without a luxury badge. Does not matter if it’s a Nissan, Renault or VW. The market is not there. Especially…

In Europe, most (if not all) non-luxury manufacturers get the vast majority (>90/95%)of their sales volume from compact cars/crossovers and smaller. If Renault were to stop building cars/crossovers that Americans would consider mid size or larger, it would have very little effect on their sales volume.

Fair enough.

Exactly. And with the way GM has been imploding in the last few years I can see them going away before Renault. Or maybe be reduced to just trucks.

2 minutes in MS paint:

No one will buy this in Europe though. I don't think I have seen an X7 of any kind yet, and I live in Munich. BMW capital of the world. 

Just ’slightly’ revised?

Because proper and fast public transportation is beneficial to not just the user of public transportation but the country as a whole. To the economy and to the well being of all. It is also beneficial to drivers, as they will be able to reach their destination much quicker.

Public transport is an essential part of infrastructure, just like roads. Just like roads they don’t have to make money directly, as the alternative (no/little public transportation) would be disastrous; a gridlock so absurd you can’t get anywhere and an economy that would collapse.

Looking at the sales number of SUVs used as minivans (high) versus the sales number of actual minivans (low), I would argue it is still a thing.

Exactly. Other than some body panels there is very little 2CV about this car. That’s fine, as the 2CV is rather plentiful. It lacks all the charm of the driving characteristics of the original though.

The Alpina version of the X5 X7 is a slightly fancier soccermom version of an already fancy soccermom car. Its function has stayed the same. The target demographic has stayed the same as well.

My 1987 Peugeot 205 also has a DAB+ headunit, with bluetooth, USB and whatnot. With the lighting color and intensity the same as the rest of the dash it does not even look out of place in that early 80s dash. There is no CD player. The last time I have used an audio CD must be over 15 years ago.

Hell no. I own and invested a lot in a car from the 80s. My daily driver is 20 years old. I see few (if any) modern cars I like. However, CD players and everything older just won’t do anymore.

The van in the picture is 50-55 years old. Work vehicles used to work hard and thus wear out relatively quickly. Additionally, this is a rust prone car because it’s from the 60s. Add the requirement to pass inspection for half a century, and the survival rate is low. A few are still around though.