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Originally Posted by ptack
They planned this car ~4 years ago when they thought a baby SUV would be just the thing for big-ol, home equity leveraged Americans (instead of the 1 series hatches). Now they're trying to make lemonade from a lemon.
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Much more likely that they intended to fill the European SUV craving while getting good enough mileage to make it finacially possible for them, and the US version is just a byproduct.
Europeans want SUVs, they just can't handle the poor fuel economy as well as Americans can because of the higher prices.