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> They could make it half the size and remove $10k from the price, but they don’t seem to want that.

People keep bringing this up.

The massive size of American-market cars is thanks to regulations introduced by the Obama administration.

They effectively outlawed small cars.

Plenty of people would love to be buy a modernized take on an 80s or 90s car, but they literally can't be made or sold in the US.

I live in Japan, and have a Kei from maybe the early 2000s? My only complaint is that the A/C is like being coughed on by an asthmatic penguin, because otherwise, I absolutely love that car, precisely because it's like driving a Honda from the 1980s. Lots of glass, low beltline, all the rest.






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