In Europe it costs as much as a v6 e class despite containing much more metal (including aluminium) and a v8. And afaik in the US it's a genuinely cheap vehicle.

Because Ford rocks

We just have so much more money than europeans, its just an inexpensive truck in the USofA

>>28493220
I'm curious; why is it that America has no domestic exotic car industry? Surely if there's enough wealth and know-how there that there shouldn't be a need to import them from abroad. Surely you could do it better.

>>28493212 (OP)
>And afaik in the US it's a genuinely cheap vehicle.
Mods letting the Trolls run wild..

>Ford F-150s are not officially sold by Ford in the EU

>>28493232
>there's Corvette
>sports cars have strict regularions while suvs and trucks can kill as many polar bears as they want

>>28493212 (OP)
Maybe because they sell almost a million of them a year???

>>28493240
>suvs and trucks can kill as many polar bears as they want
If that were true you could get the 7.3 Godzilla in a F-150 or a Ranger... That's obviously not true when modern trucks and SUV's are forced to use tiny turbo engines or V8's with self destructing AFM.

>>28493232
>I'm curious; why is it that America has no domestic exotic car industry?
We do? our manufacturers every 15 or so years are putting out halo cars BTFOing european supercars like the viper, corvette, mustang, Camaro I think fucked up most high end euro sports cars. Plus on top of that most states don't have mega-gay restrictions on modifications to your cars, so you realistically can take your F150 and make it faster than a porsche on a drag strip, or do whatever handling mods you want to any car.

Then theres Hennesy, Shelby, Saleen is somehow still around, SSC.

>>28493212 (OP)
>EU is a single country

Sorry
>Europe is a single country

>

>>28493232
Our "exotic car industry" is rebadging Ford Escapes and Exploders and Chebby Tahoes.

>>28493337
Mississippi is a shithole and the average European is even worse off than them?
oof, they really are europoors

>>28493337
Compare MEDIAN income, not average. Still sux tho.

>>28493386
Right? Goddamn.
I lived in Memphrica for a bit and Mississippi is probably the only state that I could never imagine living in.
That really puts things into perspective.
Kinda feelin bad for europoors now.
Damn

>>28493337
Yeah but who gets bankrupted because they sprained their ankle and had to go to urgent care?

Yet another thread turned into
>you're poor
>but you're lynching negroes
Wtf is the point of all that?

Same in the USA
An e class starts at 60k the cheapest v8 ferd is 40k

>>28493212 (OP)
In europoop countries. Pretty much every car that doesnt have downsized 3-4 cylinder engines are more expensive due to taxes. The amount CO2 emission per kilometer is what determines how much you have to pay taxes, higher CO2=more expensive vehicle tax. Then theres also an vehicle import tax.

>>28493232
I think it's the culture. Once in a while they make a halo car, but most of the time their high end is something average working Joe can afford.
And not just in initial purchase price, but also in maintenance.
That's the whole point of slapping in big V8s with low power per liter.
They are very robust engines, won't cost you an arm and a dick to repair.
>need more power?
Just make engine bigger, silly.
They match supercars on performance but not on status.

>>28493212 (OP)
Why are Mercedes seen as luxury vehicles in the U.S. but are used for taxis in half the world?

>>28494241
Same reasons Ameritards drool over other imports (the rarer the better) or travel to Europe: they want to appear different from their neighbors and more refined. They feel their inferiority compared to Europe especially in terms of historical and cultural inheritance.
Like when every pleb on your street can get a Chevy, by getting an Italian car you can make yourself stand out. And if you actually traveled to Italy you could brag about that too, which is another step above mere mortals.

To be fair, Mercedes does try to fill the more expensive market niches too but without splitting into several brands/marques, and what domestic options do Americans have? Cadillac is for niggers (not really but that's what Americans think their neighbors think), Lincoln and Chrysler are semi-dead.

>>28494241
Is Mercedes not expensive everywhere? It is just a luxury brand like BMW, Lincoln, Lexus, Cadillac, Acura, Infiniti, etc. It is not an uncommon car at all, just pricier and you need to be middle-upper middle class to afford a new one

>>28494297
>what domestic options do Americans have?
Ford platinum trucks and Jeep Grand Wagoneer

>>28494307
That's how it is in most countries but I think I remember a Grand Tour episode in some place in Africa where most cars are old Mercedeses

>>28494307
It has offerings in many segments of the market, including LCVs and city shitters like the A-class. I remember the latter being in the same price bracket as 1-series and some small Opels at European rentals.
Another thing is importing cars to the US: it costs money, so only the top models/configurations are imported, because for the others it's not profitable enough: they won't sell, you'll lose money on them.
So your average American is accustomed to BMWs and Mercs coming only with 2.5+ liter 6+ cylinder engines (and mostly gasoline) for decades while most of Europe is flooded with poorfag spec 3 and 4 cyls 2 liters and below.

>>28494326
>Ford
That's for plebs.
>Jeep
Thats for dirty plebs.
I mean not really but slapping "platinum" on it doesn't make your vehicle stand out from the crowd. Even if the letters are large and shiny. Even fucking gooks understand that, so they created an entire new marque to distance a couple of models from other KIAs and Hyundais.

>>28494337
They get hand me downs
>>28494338
Yeah I check the site and cheapest vehicles are a $44k GLA SUV and $48k C 300 for sedan. Probably just don’t import the lower models because we have ford, Chevy, Toyota, Honda, etc

>>28494351
>Probably just don’t import the lower models because we have ford, Chevy, Toyota, Honda, etc
Probably. Mercedes and Audi are considered luxury brands in some places because they only import the premium/luxury cars there, but they also sell small hatchbacks and stuff in Europe.
Maybe they're better equipped and upholstered than a VW or Renault of the same class, and the infocrap runs smoother thanks to new Nvidia chips and shit, but I don't think they're exactly luxury vehicles.

Looking at Finnish car prices, a new Mercedes "AMG Line" hatchback (with a "sporty" 163 hp hybrid engine) goes for ~50k, though an almost unused 2 year old one is more like 30k. That's some nice depreciation. Wonder how expensive those are to maintain, with all the Merc gizmos and German autism packed in there.

>>28494401
>Finnish car prices
I thought you guys have it hard even on the used local market because of the taxes compared to lots of other places in the EU, so the cheaper way is to get a slightly used German car from Germany. Am I right?

>>28493212 (OP)
>And afaik in the US it's a genuinely cheap vehicle.
They start something like $40k-$45k, I guess that's cheap for what you get. Manufacturing and materials are global, that's how it stays cheap. Mexican labor. Economies of scale.

>>28493337
Until you get fired without warning while the europoor will still be getting his europoor wage even when the world is burning all around him.
Plus half of that juicy US income will be spent paying back credits and on healthcare.

>>28494423
Yeah, new cars are fairly expensive here even in base spec these days. Bump the spec up to a decent level, and a small econobox easily goes for 30k. Then you'll probably need to add winter tires, a cabin/engine block heater and some other equipment to survive in that thing.

So quite a few cars on used car sites are imports from other Euro countries.
Definitely a good idea to run some vehicle history checks when buying one, though. Wouldn't be the first time someone buys a fancy car with under 50,000 km, only for it to turn out to be a piece of shit with 200,000 km totaled in a crash and put back together in a shady Eastern Euro shop, with the clock turned back just a little bit.

>>28493944
euros are poor, though, that's completely true
and amerimutts don't lynch niggers now, they worship them

>>28493232
Because America is a big country, with big long roads, and a shitload of Karens that are afraid of anything that goes fast. So if you have to go thousands of miles at 65/mph, instead of a fast vehicle, you go for comfy instead. Hence, trucks, SUVs etc. There are comfy cars, but they aren't as comfy as vehicles with large interiors.

>>28493417
I went there on vacation once cause the bass pro shop pyramid and hotel. We went to beale street but it was full of niggers and grifters

>>28495630
Yep, you got the full Memphrican tourist experience.
Bass pro is impressive tho, kinda shocking.
But yeah Beale is a shitshow, esp after about 10pm.

>>28495927
We stayed in the pyramids hotel. One of the cops 8 in the pyramid lobby said they have a precinct dedicated to it because otherwise the welfare-americans would do flashmob snatch and grab robbery of the place. Apparently some of them still try and just get arrested. The city also realizes that they'd lose a lot of revenue if they allowed it to be unsafe there.
we went to beale at like noon. No fuckin way I'm going there at 10pm with the ferals out. Even though it was broad daylight I had my concealed carry on me. Around blacks never relax.

>>28493411
We don't talk about median in america. That's communism o algo

>>28493232
For over 70 years americans havent managed to make anything beyond a corvette and viper.
Its either reworking of existing cars like shelby cobra or co operation with europeans like gt40.
Barely anything and why ?
Cause american engineering sucks,closest thing they had to a supercar vector which fell on its face and then In mid 00s ford gt saleen s7 and stillborn caddilac cien which I think was a stillborn c8 we see now

>>28495958
Good man. The bass pro and hotel are super impressive and even more so when you consider that it's *in* memphis, which is the underachievement capital of the nation.
Yeah I left Memphrica being a LOT more racist and disappointed in the future than when I arrived there. That city is fuckin hopeless.
But to be fair about it, the crime really is heavily HEAVILY concentrated in nigherhoods or nigherhood adjacent.
And on the positive side it also really teaches people the lesson that you'd better be ready to defend yourself on your own because you're in hostile territory 100% of the time inside the loop and 10% of the time out of it. So I carried everywhere unless I knew there were metal detectors i'd have to pass through. concealed is concealed.
There are a few things I do miss including the near total lack of speed limits on the interstate. I've been doing 90 and would get passed by a cop without even a second glance. That part was fucking great.

>>28493232
We do. Panoz, Saleen, Factory Five, Hennessy, Ultima have all made exotic hypercars.

>>28496600
Ultima is British

>>28496658
My mistake I was thinking of RCR. Add Shelby, Exocet, and Kirkam to the list as well.

Point is, whatever country he's from barring possibly the UK, we've got more exotic car manufacturers than he does.