European car-companies have to create cup-holders (at least one for the driver and one for the fronnt passenger) in their products, if an export to America is planned. I don't know, which car it was, but some months ago one company has forget them - and the US-dependances were getting mad about this fault. So they had to repair their mistake.


But cupholds in European cars are mostly a joke. You should never use them! So the older Mercedes, W 124 and so, had just two round places in the inside of the glove-box.
And European cupholders, are CUPholders, not big enough for the large McDonalds-drinks or even 0.5-liter-bottles.

Why don't use them? Easy explanation: the European ones are mostly placed close to the stick-shift, inside the glove-box, or it's a push-out-holder in the middle of the dashboard - so if you make a harder brake, have to go in sharp curves or are on bad roads, your drink will be splashed into the dashboard, the glove-box, on the switches in the middle-console, over the radio and so on! Pure bullshit!

Even if I' driving a car with a cupholder (my K 70 doesn't have one, the Opel Omega only the rounds into the glove-box), I never use them (except last Februrary in our US rental car, the 2008 "Town and Country").
I usually have bottles with me, never cups or these wobbling McDonalds-drinks. I put my bottles on the passenger's seat and fix them with my jacket or a bag. If someone is with me in the car, I put them on the back seat, in a way, that I can reach them while driving.
In my K 70 I avoid that place, because it has light beige seats. There I put the bottles on the ground in front of the passenger's seat, fixed also with a jacket - but on the door's side, because i nthe middle it's geting warm by the exhaust underneath. Warm Diet Coke, lemonade or juice is worst!