Why American and European Cars Are So Different 

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Most people in the US think that European cars are overbuilt and unreliable. However, I think the unreliability stems from a lack of parts

@@faux3924european cars are the most reliable especially VW and Audi. Although their newer cars seem to go the opposite way.

id say, murican cars are just tin cans without anything for safety.

Why are they poorly built

Thanks for sharing your opinion!

The north east was built before the car, yet they’re car centric as hell because they were all bulldozed for the car. the same kinda happened in europe and now we’re living in car centric places. The only country in the world made for people, cyclists and not cars is The Netherlands.

thanks for your interesting comment, it adds additional value to our video!

Women drivers. Automatic transmissions were once advertised as allowing the wife to drive a car. Or a second car. It was considered an luxury option. Sports cars and "coops" are generally preferred Manuel. But with computers now they can shift far faster than most people. Unless you have reflexes of a formula one driver. It's become a joke. Manuel transmissions are considered an antitheft feature. Kids can't drive them. I learned on a three speed one ton truck. Gears are much further apart than on a car. Try to imagine rowing through a ten speed gear box. Reminds me of the transport trucks 21 speeds /half gears. Shift five times to get to 30 kph.

Wanna comment on the truck part of your comment. I live in west Texas and farm and ranch for a living and I do IT as a second job. Most people here seem to think big ol trucks make them seem important and successful which is something I disagree with. As much as I like my truck it's not a great daily and this is where I don't get along with most of my friends lol. My opinion is a truck should only really be viable for work or those who travel for work and live out of an RV for most of the year which is popular in the oil field. Me personally I love sedans for daily drivers. If it wasn't for the farm I'd probably only use sedans. My 2020 Volvo s60 is perfect in my opinion it fits 2 car seats trunk is more than sufficient for the grocery haul and after the polestar tune in averaging 35 mpg on the highway at 75 mph. Smaller SUVs are great too we had a tiguan that I loved but had manufacturing issues that was under warranty that VW wasn't willing to handle so we traded it in for a Volvo cx40 which I also like but not as much as the sedan. I'm sad to see sedans dying in the US and hope they make a comeback.

thanks for your point of view, hope you enjoyed the video :)

American cars are not popular in Europe thanks to prohibitive anti-American taxes in Europe.

Korean Cars are good at being great value, but not handling.

@@tzarcoal1018ok, I agree. Not as good as japanese yet. But always better than de average car from the USA we can buy in Europe. We have narrow roads and a higher speed limit. So we need good Handling without the "confortable" suspension and to much weight. The reason we don't use so much pickup an SUV,s here.

European cars are designed by Europeans

Repeat after me. "There's no replacement for displacement." The turbos wear faster, higher revving shorter life span. Cast iron blocks are more durable than aluminum, but are heavier. There is a limit to displacement only that after a certain point the weight to power ratio drops off a cliff. The bigger the engine, the heavier, the more hp required to push it along. Right around a thousand HP the gain drops off.

@@corssecurity repeat after me “Just because my 7 litre V8 doesn’t have enough power to rip the skin off a rice pudding, doesn’t mean it’s more reliable then a 2.0L turbo” The thing is whilst European cars have more complicated engines which in theory makes them more prone to premature failure, reality shows us that the higher quality of manufacturing means they last longer. A car may have a turbo but doesn’t guarantee that it’ll fail before its US counterpart there’s many turbocharged European cars on very high miles still on their original turbo. You seem to forget too that US engines were designed to have major parts replaced easily because they know they’d fail.

Yes its very interesting when you compare this to the US

Well when the vehicle is 16 feet long six foot wide die hard blue steel, three foot thick bumpers you don't worry about bumping into things or people. Seriously though a model A could be driven into a tree and be undamaged. The passengers are going through the windscreen. But the car was fine. Not unlike Pearce Brosnan driving a tank through Moscow.

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@@all-about-europe it was interesting yes

@@Unidentifying thanks!

Thank you for the your point of view

You clearly don’t know difference between octane ratings. USA 93 octane is AKI, europe uses RON gas which 98 is 93, 91 is 95. Exactly the same gas, however USA has E85 which is way better gas than any european race gas. Don’t say stupid shit without knowing anything

No it's an issue of measurement. It's the same gas, just not measuring the same thing.

All the other cars will be banned by 2035 so idk

then tell me why the euroncap doesn't perform the small overlap test or roof strength test to emulate an rollover?, shouldn't be the test in the world be standard and serve to ensure safety doesn't matter the car maker or built country?

@@megacap55 they don’t test roof strength because it’s not really a common thing, they tend to focus on more common crashes and improve the safety there, also the reason why they test on pedestrians and the IIHS isn’t only starting to do that now. NCAP does test small overlaps. they test it with a Mobile Progressive Deformable Barrier.

@@miles5600 i don't see that what is done it's 40% of the surface of the car which is cheat itself, the IIHS REAL SMALL OVERLAP TEST IS THE 25% OF CAR SURFACE AND makes the emulation of a crash against a tree or utility pole or lampost or even an traffic light, and the roof strength test is for emulate how much weight can stand without decapitate to the passengers or cause serious neurological injuries, in the video appears explained all , if all European car makers were made those test i doubt that would survive even or still promoting as the safest cars more in the best selling cars like skoda or dacia by example or DS ones ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3IMqJv1XNJE.htmlsi=rXCCneU1rdC-ilGt

@@megacap55 the difference is that european roads are much more narrow and we barely have power lines obstructing someone’s path. These really small overlaps barely happen here thus they focus on what’s more common. We also tend to have a lot more guardrails on highways and some other roads unlike in the US. There’s probably another good reason for it since the EU is very strict of what it mandates these associations do.

@@megacap55 skoda and especially dacia are pretty bad car brands and nowhere close to being the best sellers. Those would be like VW, BMW, Mercedes, Mazda. Most of the European car brands are also sold in the US so they have the same or even better safety standards, European cars in general are safer than USDM cars cause of adaptive headlights, amber turn signals, the required side turn signal indicators, convex mirrors, rear fog lights, etc

but in the majority of European countries you drive on the right side (except for UK, Malta, Ireland and Cyprus)

only the brits, the irish ans a few others...most of us drive on the same side as you guys, idk why so many americans get that wrong.

@@tzarcoal1018 it’s because we in our ignorances think Europe have a connected highway system or similar. Also movies and television may be our only reference.

​​@@melvincoleman595Great Britain and Ireland are islands... So no problem in keeping different road side!.

Actually it's true American and European drive in the wrong lane. The passing lane.