Comment by Macha
4 years ago
Not a hope. Won't win the US market because of not being big enough, will do even worse worldwide because of the price tag.
4 years ago
Not a hope. Won't win the US market because of not being big enough, will do even worse worldwide because of the price tag.
So far the exact opposite is happening, although you are correct that being the top selling car in the US won't happen, just the world as a whole. It's a pretty easy prediction, as even if it is wrong it will still barely trail Toyota for the top selling spot, barring some significant disruption and reversal.
They come #1 in Norway and their next best showing is #3 in China, but plenty of large markets where they're way down the list (e.g. #49 in Spain, #40 in germany did not make rankings in Italy, Brazil, India).
https://www.drive.com.au/news/the-best-selling-cars-around-t...
Italy historical top 3 is always cheap city cars. Usually Fiat Panda which costs ~15k€ nowadays (used to be much less).
A 50K€ base model car as top 1 is a pipe dream. It'll happen when people can't buy cars anymore and all remains is the rich and robotaxis.