More sensibly, pick a Japanese car, which will be the same or have a ton of parts similarity in the US and Europe. The continual improvement of those cars was a

More sensibly, pick a Japanese car, which will be the same or have a ton of parts similarity in the US and Europe. The continual improvement of those cars was aided by regulations and market conditions (it's not an accident that sales of Honda and Toyota first started to take off in the US in the late seventies) and by engineering and corporate culture (it's not an accident that they still make better cars today).