[bossrat]

Europe is more densely populated and the cultures tend to be less "mobile", so people don't need to transport as much stuff as far, and Europe has more old infrastructure with narrow streets, so larger vehicles are not practical; the US has space galore, and was a generally wealthier place during the period of highway and suburb construction.

people need to stop thinking that Americans are so different than Europeans, and especially that there is so much superego-tic morality attached to everything we each do.

[tomp]

You didn't really answer the question. It seems a bit ironic that the US is criticising diesel cars when US petrol cars are (I'm guessing because they're bigger) much less efficient than EU petrol cars.

[bossrat]

"the US" is not criticising diesel cars, that is one article on vox.com

Of course, it was in the US where the widespread European diesel cheating was discovered :) but again, that was a small number of Americans measuring, and they don't speak for the whole country either.

And I did pretty much answer the question, it was asked if there are more big cars in the US as rumored, and I didn't say "no", I said "...it's because of these reasons"

[hugh4]

But how can Americans socially signal their sophistication and enlightenment without talking about how much better things are in Europe?

[dang]

Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

[csours]

Edit to add to the actual conversation: I guess this goes to show that even Europe suffers from regulatory capture.

Listen here boy, I'm from Texas [1] and them's fighten words!

/s?

1. Actually am from Texas.