No matter the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or Transport Canada. The cars were design for Germany and they are SAFE, here, there, everywhere. They Must certify any european FORD and OPEL to be sold in USA and Canada ASAP to help recover GM and Ford from the Asian car makers.
2006-07-22 17:51:49 · 3 answers · asked by F V 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Ford for example have the Ka in europe, capable of averaging at least 40 MPG, the only Ka I have seen in the USA had mexican licence plates on it, in other words it was just visiting.
Opel is part of GM, some models are sold in the USA as Chevrolet but not all.
You could apply the same question to Fiat, Renault, Peugot and all those other car manufacturers.
Why do they not sell them in the USA, because there is no market for them, that is why.
As Opel is part of GM then they have to have a reason for not re badging certain models sold in Europe, as do Ford, I think the Ford KA would do great in the USA, it is sold everywhere else in the world except the USA.
2006-07-22 18:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by froggy010101 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not a matter of NHTSA or any safety concern.
It is because of marketing. If the market studies show low profits for a certain car in a certain market, they simply drop it and sell some other car.
A Ford Mondeo might be just as good in every way as a 325 BMW, and is even cheaper, but if it doesn't say BMW on the badge, very few people would be interested.
The market is not the people who know about cars, but the people who buy them.
2006-07-25 02:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by okar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The OPEL and Fords that were imported had such a bad rep that no one would buy them again.
2006-07-28 20:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by R1volta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋