But some of them aren’t all that dumb because they are the ones buying the big German ones. That’s the essence of the article anyway.
Inexplicable, really. German intellectuals everywhere are aghast at the United States failing to do what it is supposed to do yet again. Despite Der Spiegel‘s recent pronouncemnt of the end of US-Amerika as we know it (in black and white and color too), US-Amerikaner are suddenly buying big fat politically correct automobiles as if there were no tomorrow.
Or maybe that is the explanation. Perhaps this is our last collective gasp as a nation before the whole culture (excuse me, I meant lack of culture) implodes with a tremendous groan and rolls over to die, I dunno, in Nevada or someplace. Everybody must sense instinctively that this will be our last chance to drive off into the sunset of our American oblivion in our monstrous ‘merican automobiles in hyper-heroic, High Noon style.
Or maybe… Maybe the experts at Der Spiegel (and experts in general) are just too stupid to poor piss out of a boot.
Der Autoabsatz in den USA boomt.
Observing Hermann 
Wow, after reading that you’d think that all car plants in Japan and Korea magically vanished. Funny enough, the article fails to mention that the winners in the middle American market are still the Japanese. VW should count themselves lucky that the panic over sudden acceleration and a good exchange rate gave them an uptick in their meager US sales figures.
The Ford F-series and the Chevrolet Silverado are the best selling cars/trucks in the US while Toyota is at least 20% behind those two. The Dodge Ram outsells most of the Korean companies plus Subaru and VW is not even on the top ten list. It has a terrible reputation for quality and service in the US currently and will have to work harder to overcome that reputation. Perhaps with cars that don’t rattle and burn up the EFI on the freeway.