What’s the reason (apart from tradition making people think it’s normal) the proce difference between these models is so big in the EU and not in the US?
Taxes. I drive a 15 year old car, I would not want to waste money on a new one. My car cost about 14% of what it was new with 55K km on the clock and is in a much cheaper tax bracket than a new one. It's a ridiculous system.