America's Favorite Sedan to Take a Boat Trip

Yeah Europeans hate boring cars. Then they have to figure out what to do with all their free time, not spent having around the repair shop lounge. And all the surplus funds they have to find where to spend or invest.

@DenverMike Denver Mike, why do you hate all things European? You strike me as a very narrow-minded person who has never left their little town and seen the world. Almost every post from you attacks Europe, attacks Europeans posters such as me and you have this untrue perception that all European cars are poor quality and unreliable and that we as a continent are naive and foolish preferring to buy ‘terrible’ cars instead of ‘reliable’ Japanese cars. The truth is that our cars are well-made and reliable. If they were not then we wouldn’t buy or continue to buy them. It is that simple! Nobody wants to own an unreliable car.

Scorpio was axed because it was ugly. It sold well when it was the Granada. The Omega, it's nearest competitor, sold reasonably well to fleets but it was too costly to fund a RWD competitor, so it was effectively replaced by the enlarged Vectra and that strange Vectra based Signum. The closest thing now to these is the Skoda Superb, which offers a practical liftback.

@ThomasSchiffer I don't hate, it's comedy to me. Informed Europeans know they've been lead down a path, accepting crappy cars while rejecting clearly better cars. Occasionally a European like yourself comes along trumpeting the greatness of Euro cars, obviously not having a worldly view, so excuse my manners if I introduce a touch of reality, while trying not to laugh. While not terrible and definitely "reliable", Euro cars are still much worse than Japanese, American, or Korean cars. It's a statistical fact. Your market and buying habits are completely shaped by EU protectionism. It allows some of the crappiest cars known to man to flourish in Europe. We've been doing door to door comparisons for decades now. We have something called "Buy Here Pay Here" sales lots for crappy used cars and they're always filled with Euro cars. Or the newer ones are usually Euro cars since their value torpedoes faster than any others. And Europe only sends us over the very best they have to offer. The Camry is one of the best cars the world has to offer and it's been totally rejected in Europe, passed over for cars you darn well know are much crappier for the same price. Explain more about that. If you were better informed, you might consider suing Europe, just for the air quality alone!

@WallMeerkat You mean Insignia a.k.a Buick Regal? I never liked Opels because of low rate interiors, but still Vectra as a car was better than corresponding Japanese cars. And cars like Audi were light years ahead of Japan Inc. I do not know what Toyota is thinking.

@WallMeerkat BTW that "ugly" Scorpio you are referring to was just a facelift of "good" Scorpio known as Merkur in US. In its usual manner Ford refused to invest in new Scorpio and it was behind times regardless of how it looked. Ford considered Lincoln LS as replacement but then decided to kill the whole executive RWD thing and not compete with Audi, BMW and etc.

@DenverMike Denver Mike, The Camry failed because its size was too big for its niche, it offered the wrong engine options, the wrong body styles and because its competitors - those ‘crappy European cars’ which you adore so much - were designed to succeed in our market. The Toyota Avensis is the same size as a Passat and co. and has sold well in this market. See how that works? What works in one market does not work in another. In my decades-long experiences of owning European cars I cannot relate to these ‘quality and reliability issues’. My brother runs a taxi business and uses exclusively Mercedes and Volkswagen products, and a handful of Citroens. With simple maintenance these cars keep running and running, even the VWs with their DSGs.