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I think that there are a couple of factors that favored huge cars in the US and smaller or more efficient cars in Eu.

Europe is relatively small and because of mountains and such, relatively difficult to go any great distance (I'm talking about way back in the day). The US is pretty darn big with lots of wide open space.

The US came out of the world wars pretty well economically from what I remember which favors excess. I believe much of Europe suffered economically following the WWs.

I believe that the wide open spaces combined with the healthy economy after the wars favored excess, big powerful cars that represented the big powerful country. I think that the opposite is true of Eu.

But I'm no great historian, no expert on any of this, and didn't stay at a holiday inn last night.