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