A momentous change might be to American roads following a visit to Japan by U.S. President Donald Trump. America's ubiquitous, muscular SUVs may soon usurped by a four-seater, 660 cc car that is hugely popular in Japan — the "kei car". President Trump to have a particular fondness for this miniature automobile. He wants to the way for kei cars to be in the USA. He wrote on his Truth Social website: "I have just tiny cars to be built in America. Manufacturers have long to do this, just like they are so successfully in other countries." He that the cars were "inexpensive, safe, fuel efficient, and quite simply, amazing".
In Japan, kei cars for around a third of all new vehicle sales. They are ideally suited to the narrow streets of Japan's bustling, densely populated cities. However, legislation needs to be to make the cars road-legal in the USA. The website Quartz that: "Most kei cars don't federal rules, and there are lingering concerns that the vehicles too small and slow to be safely...on highways." Trump has directed his Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, to all barriers to their production. Mr Duffy said: "If Toyota or any other company to make smaller, more affordable and fuel-efficient cars, we have the deck so they can... them in America."
