Comment by georgefrowny

It feels very much like a self-inflicted problem that manufacturers made by lobbying for domestic rules that they knew to be incompatible with foreign markets, followed by inability to innovate sufficiently to supply both markets economically.

I have no sympathy with this plight. They should take responsibility for their past choices. They have agency, they're not victims.

It's not even that you can't see big pickups in the EU, there are plenty of Hiluxen and even Chinese brands like Maxus (SAIC) could figure out how make an EU-compliant vehicle (much as I think even such models are undesirable to share roads with).

It's also not there are no US imports - there are, when the models comply with local regulation.