[dagw]

Where and in what context? I'm outside the US and don't see it that way at all.

[guiriduro]

US cars are (historically) seen as oversized, inefficient poorly-built slow barges.

[jjgreen]

Same with the motorbikes, OK till you try to turn a corner. But that's kind-of unfair, since on long straight US roads that's not really a disadvantage.