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Doesn’t Ford mostly focuss on the American market these days? They don’t make reasonably sized or affordable cars anymore, only oversized pickups and SUVs, which don’t sell well outside of North America.
Meanwhile BYD has the Chinese market already, and is expanding globally, selling relatively affordable EVs.
I’m not exactly surprised that they are outselling Ford
The 2008 is a pumped up 208, and is absolutely a small car, bumped up a bit from a sub compact.
The CUV is not for compact, it signifies crossover which means it has driving capability like a sedan.
The CUV is a pumped up sedan, the 2008 is a pumped up sub micro.
Compact/Crossover SUVs are hugely popular worldwide. I was surprised to learn BYD’s best selling car wasn’t the smaller Dolphin or Seagull, but the Song Plus.
But, yeah, Ford has been focusing on bigass expensive cara here too. Their cheapest (gas) vehicle for this year is more expensive than the BYD Song plug-in hybrid, which is twice the price of the Seagull.
Stellantis does make affordable vehicles though… in Europe…
They own Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat, Opel, etc and they have been making great affordable EVs in recent years
Stellantis brought the 500 over and it sold very well first three years, the problem was the car was garbage and in the end, they sold 23 in one quarter. You can’t fuck people over and expect them to buy the same garbage over and over, that only works for Jeep buyers.
Its not collusion. They just can compete against Japanese and South Korean brands in this segment so all the R&D money designing and building compact cars was going to waste. People would rather buy a Civic or Corolla than a Cruze or Focus.
It’s no like they’re forcing people to buy bigger cars especially considering these brands already make up a minority of sales in the US.
CEOs have repeatedly told media they have no interest in lower margin vehicles. So they chose to hand this over to China.
Ford stopped selling cars completely, because trucks are cheaper to make because they loophole safety standards and peope pay more money for something that is big.
Doesn’t Ford mostly focuss on the American market these days? They don’t make reasonably sized or affordable cars anymore, only oversized pickups and SUVs, which don’t sell well outside of North America.
Meanwhile BYD has the Chinese market already, and is expanding globally, selling relatively affordable EVs.
I’m not exactly surprised that they are outselling Ford
In Europe they do, and it’s still a reasonably popular brand despite Trump.
North America only gets the tanks.
That must have changed recently then, because last I checked they only really had the Mustang
The explorer is a mid size car. I USA it would go as a CUV.
The Ford Explorer is not even close to being a mid-size car
The 2008 is a pumped up 208, and is absolutely a small car, bumped up a bit from a sub compact.
The CUV is not for compact, it signifies crossover which means it has driving capability like a sedan.
The CUV is a pumped up sedan, the 2008 is a pumped up sub micro.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-2008-2023-suv-vs-volkswagen-id4-2020-suv/
The ID.4 is a medium sized car. And the explorer is actually a bit smaller.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-2008-2023-suv-vs-volkswagen-id4-2020-suv/
The comparison between 2008 and ID.4 is not nearly as extreme here as the picture you show?
IDK if one is an American explorer and the other European?
Looks like the picture you show is from the same site?
They still make reasonably sized and priced cars for the UK market.
Compact/Crossover SUVs are hugely popular worldwide. I was surprised to learn BYD’s best selling car wasn’t the smaller Dolphin or Seagull, but the Song Plus.
But, yeah, Ford has been focusing on bigass expensive cara here too. Their cheapest (gas) vehicle for this year is more expensive than the BYD Song plug-in hybrid, which is twice the price of the Seagull.
Stellantis, GM, Ford all colluded to stop making lower cost vehicles.
Stellantis does make affordable vehicles though… in Europe…
They own Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat, Opel, etc and they have been making great affordable EVs in recent years
Stellantis brought the 500 over and it sold very well first three years, the problem was the car was garbage and in the end, they sold 23 in one quarter. You can’t fuck people over and expect them to buy the same garbage over and over, that only works for Jeep buyers.
Its not collusion. They just can compete against Japanese and South Korean brands in this segment so all the R&D money designing and building compact cars was going to waste. People would rather buy a Civic or Corolla than a Cruze or Focus.
It’s no like they’re forcing people to buy bigger cars especially considering these brands already make up a minority of sales in the US.
CEOs have repeatedly told media they have no interest in lower margin vehicles. So they chose to hand this over to China.
Ford stopped selling cars completely, because trucks are cheaper to make because they loophole safety standards and peope pay more money for something that is big.