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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Of course if the makers of those cars - Daewoo, Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM - knew there was a demand then they would fill it.
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The experience of history suggests that you're dead wrong. For instance, the import & sales of the original VW bug showed that there was a demand for small cars. Did the US automakers build small cars? Toyota's introduction of the SR5 small pickup in the early '70s showed that there was a demand for small pickups. Did US automakers build small pickups? And so on...
PS: And it seems as though that demand still exists. I had an '84 Toyota for years, but it had carb problems and I couldn't get it to pass the smog check. Bought an '88 - barely beating out several other responses to the guy's ad, and listed mine on Craigslist the next morning. It was gone that evening.