Wanting to tank the economy and thereby the stock market so his rich buddies can buy up everything for next to nothing and own just about everything?

Vance was chuntering on about Europeans/Japanese etc not buying many American cars while the US consumer buys lots of them. Just a thought but, might this be down to a couple of things that stare one right in the face. US cars are, in the main, huge beasts with engines of 4, 5, 6 or more litres which guzzle a lot of petrol and petrol is way more expensive over here? We don't want cars the size of a double decker. Is part of the charm of European/Japanese cars to Americans that they are smaller, easier to park, more reliable and cheaper to run? Is another reason for US cars being less popular in Europe that they are all automatics and we prefer manual? 24% of cars in the UK are automatics, 19% in NL.