Automen and consumers share the onus for a lack of small cars
From the Toyota Tercel driver on the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles to the Volkswagen Rabbit owner dodging potholes on the F.D.R. Drive on Manhattan's East Side, the American-built car has become an object of derision and jokes. All too many American drivers now consider the cars they once fawned over to be simply too big, too heavy and too expensive. As car sales continue a yearlong slump and the auto industry faces its gravest crisis ever, an increasingly anxious public is...
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