European Cars Vs American Cars

They are the most popular cars in the world. Cars that came from European and American manufacturers are setting the standard till the present day.Yet, they are very opposite in most crucial points. Most owners of European cars look at their American colleagues as somewhat backward and crude while the Americans look at the European car as a solid built go-cart.

The distance between the two schools of car making begun at the half of the 20th century. After WW2, Americans started building big cars, with massive engines that looked like they were transplanted from the truck. The rest of the technology was also in that manner. The motto was the bigger the better. This was the definition that followed American car-making philosophy to this day.

In the same time, Europeans were more refined. Economy was the name of the game, so manufacturers like Volkswagen, Renault, Citroen and others built cars with smaller engines (2000 cc was considered a big engine), relatively small bodies and made the best they could out of it. That's why most of the top engineering marvels that we use in the modern car come from European manufacturers (electric injection, ABS, common-rail technology etc.)