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Well...
Germans seem too have a tough time cracking the US market.... And giving us what we want as a whole...
Look at VW... Neck and neck with Toyota most years internationally for the largest car maker title.....but barely alive in the US, and that was before diselgate...
Then BMW... Pretty limited...then the disaster of daimler chrysler....it did not go so good for Benz... So much for a merger made in heaven....

 

I find that German cars as a whole have been really hurt from their terribly unreliable track record in the past 10-15 years in the US. Most (excluding Porsche) have experienced a place in the bottom half of reliability ratings at some point, and this has hurt sales here. Plus the American market is very fickle, and US German manufactures are kind of like the "jack of all trades, masters of none." Generally speaking, German manufactures don't produce the strongest vehicles, aren't the cheapest, and aren't the most reliable.

Two great things German brands have done for the US are:

Established DI vehicles as the norm and substantially help increase MPG
Reestablished diesel vehicles as a consumer option for average US customers.


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