Every invention is obvious after someone thinks of it.

I thought of this before years ago and a million others probably too.

Teenagers are still faster with two thumbs and T9 on a dial pad anyway. Typing on smaller devices is only an issue for older folk who didn't grow up with texting.

Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi etc. are all heavily unionized in their home countries and all of the companies you named got american tax-payer subsidies to set up shop in the US.

And how long do you think these factories will remain in the US, once your domestic industry is gone and with it the bargaining power it gives the US governement in setting import tariffs or threatening to increase them, like Reagan did?

The european and east asian auto industries are heavily unionized. German workers have a right to half the seats on the supervisory board and play an active role in the steering of the company.

You don't need a survey about potential SUV buyers in the EU. SUVs are everywhere, albeit not many of these ugly american trucks which masquerade as passenger cars.