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Soviet-Era Cars Dominate Russia’s Used Market as Poverty Rises
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That's such a strawman argument. It's possible to make a car with modern crumple zones etc. without also inflating it in size and price the way every US-market car is.
If you're looking for a strawman argument, look at your own post. You're changing what OP said and then saying my response was wrong. Thats the definition of a strawman. OP was talking about legacy Soviet designed cars, NOT modern cars. I responded about legacy Soviet cars for driving today as OP was referring to.
It absolutely is. Americans won't buy them in sufficient quantities to be profitable for US car companies. We don't have to guess, we have sales numbers and recent history to show it:
The Ford Fiesta started at $11k in the USA, yet sales kept declining until Ford canceled it along with every other car in its lineup except the Mustang . source