This is a very NA centric take. You think Mercedes in Europe has the same quality as NA. German cars in NA are made in America or Mexico with shit build quality, while in Europe, they are obviously built in Europe. Whevever you device to take a vacation abroad, you notice alot of used bmw's and mercedes being driven around Europe and the middle east cause they are fucking tanks.

The reason why parts for german cars are expensive here is cause they manufacture the parts in Europe and ship them over to NA.

its 3 times the cost of a prius here in NA, not really anymore as the new one starts at like 30k.

In Europe, your paying 8 bucks a gallon or even more, the VAT on ICE cars is really high to the point where its actually more expensive to buy a Prius than a Model 3 upfront. Then you get into the whole cost of electricity versus gas, little maintenance (no oil changes, less break weak, no transmissions, etc)

Majority of Europeans pay out the ass for gas because most European countries don't really product any of their own.

Like gas cars are so absurdly expensive in Europe, a base camry hybrid is FUCKING 61K USD: https://www.toyota.dk/nye-biler/camry

The model Y is 50000 Danish Krone more which is 5k USD and the model 3 standard range plus is cheaper and this is without any incentives. So in large swathes of Europe, its cheaper to buy a expensive ass Tesla than a toyota base trim upfront.

NA is kinda spoiled with its super cheap prices. Everything is so cheap here.