QOTD: Forbidden Fruit
As I noted yesterday, I was spotting a lot of unusual (to us) vehicles while I was out of the country on vacation last week.
So, naturally, I wanted to ask you about forbidden fruit and what cars you'd bring here if you could. But there's a twist.
Here's that twist: I am going to ask you to refrain from the easy and obvious picks.
Anyone can pick an Alpine 110. I want to hear about the truly weird stuff.
I'm hard-pressed to think of an example myself -- I don't know my foreign markets well enough. The best I can think of is the Volkswagen Amarok I saw -- it's not a vehicle that a lot of Americans desire, but it would still be cool if it was sold here (at least in my opinion).
So, what say you? What kind of car/truck/SUV/crossover that's not sold here would you bring over? And please, please, I beg of you -- make it a weird or obscure choice, not something obvious like the Alpine.
Sound off below.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Citroën C4 Cactus
Volkswagen Caravelle or its competitors. seats 9 reasonably well and can be made into a car camper.
Well, there isn't too many vehicles we don't have. Unlike the EU and the US we don't have the same levels of protection on our industry. The vehicles we don't have are not desirable, ie, Meriva.
What about forbidden features? Nothing makes me more mad than seeing a new Nissan Sentra Sr 6spd review pop up on my YouTube feed only to find out Mexico and Canada have 6spd transmission option? Usa gets cvt only? I get if a manufacturer discontinues a manual transmission for production/profit thanks to decrease in demand but to Assemble this Nissan Sentra in Mississippi USA, then not sell what you manufacturered in the country that produced it! Ahh! Literally those clutches are just being exported right under our nose!