You are wrong. Greetings from Europe: most countries have CO2-emissions based taxation. MASSIVE taxation in lots of cases. And those emissions tests are flawed, making small turbocharged and diesel engines seem cleaner compared to naturally aspirated engines than they really are.

Really? You’re denying the certain fact that regs were meant to be protectionist, that manufacturers ‘happened to’ have everything suit them perfectly, and that the results are plain to see?

Have fun, internet liar, spreader of hate.

“how Trump’s trade policies and trade wars will cost jobs”

Obviously, since you are unable to respond to being absolutely destroyed.

Those are some stupid opinion articles, why don’t you just listen to Carlos Ghosn: http://www.thedrive.com/news/6954/nissan-chief-bullish-on-economy-electric-vehicles-and-donald-trump

Ignoring what? That Brennan was using the bureau for politics (and other intelligence agencies were also off the rails in their behaviour), Trump criticised him for that, Brennan tried to defend himself and was then slammed by Trump?

Still nothing about USA losing automotive jobs, nothing to back up your fervent, fanatical propagating about some ‘future trade wars’...

??? You have some kind of problem?

Sure, now you think defending Gawker/Jezebel as a news source is a battle you want to start waging... You seem intelligent...

WTF are you ranting about, extremist fanatic??!!

So you don’t understand how European protectionism works. Fine, be ignorant. I’m sure US and Japanese cars disappeared from the market due to some kind of magic...

Not weird if you bother to educate yourself on the subject.

You just have to go via Africa, dispose of your documentation, and shout ‘Asyl’!

And then there’s the European cartel and corruption that made anything but (European) downsized turbo engines and diesels so much more expensive that it doesn’t make sense to buy them. Protectionism. Wiped out most of Japanese and US imports. Not free trade, not fair, not commendable. Please don’t be naïve.

Lie much? What do you get out of this stupid BS?

More stupid talk. If you can even called that hate-filled BS ranting talk. But empty nonetheless.

What do you mean, ‘Ooooooh’? That’s a childish, factually wrong response from that German, corrupt, in-VW’s-pocket Gabriel.

Yeah, E 200's and E 200d’s. Because of protectionist legislation which makes anything else than European small gasoline turbo and diesel engines so expensive that they are not competitive.

Yup, and they pretty much all have small turbo gasoline or diesel engines. That’s because of legislation and taxation which was purposefully introduced to clean out Japanese and American cars from the market. Which worked very well.