"Pocket-sized" mini-cars: Will they sell in the U.S.?

[a6m5]

1. the american sense of personal space is HUGE...not cramped by centuries of stuffed continent
2. micros sent over by europe have a reputation for being total crap. the last attempt was by Yugo...a crappy fiat assembled by an Iron Curtian country...which means no budget or much of anything else.
3. americans are physically larger than the rest world, apparently...and that includes height as well as the reputation we have for being fatarses

You are probably right. In the past, some 'mini' cars have done well. But cars like GEO Metro, while they were seen everywhere, Metro owners didn't buy them because they wanted a Metro, most of them got them because they had bad credit and the salesman pushed the car onto them(at least that's my theory). Daihatsu Charade was a different story. Toyota owned, quality car that was tiny. It is hard as hell to get the parts for them these days, but people still try. Daihatsu owners love their cars, but they are in a extreme minority.

 

[1X83Z]

daihatsu was ****. agree with the bad credit comment. i don't think people will stop buying suvs en masse until gas tops $6 a gallon. note that in britain, where gas is something absurd like $9 a gallon, suvs still sell like mad - x5, cayenne, etc. the united states is a country where everyone makes an suv. speaking of everyone makes an suv - did you guys know that toyota now sells six suvs? i swear.

i don't see a market for small cars in our country. if alternative fuel methods are discovered, we shouldn't have to conserve fuel by buying smaller cars. so the hope is that alternative fuel methods are discovered.

 

[skip0110]

the thing is...even big is dying, now. Americans are finally tired of huge land yaghts...and that's starting to include minivans.

I agree that minivans are pretty played out, SUVs are beginning to show those signs, but this doesn't mean that big is going to be out. Just take a look at the 300/Magnum/Charger and Ford Five Hundred--it's clear that Americans really want a large car inside.

i don't personally think that there's going to be a small car revolution in the US untill someone pulls the kind of Gas Rationing that occured during WW2...something like 3 gallons a WEEK on the low end

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[Poverty]

Ye minis dont sell well do they