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Originally Posted by niky
Around the oil embargo time, Chevy had the Citation and Ford had the Pinto... then Escort.
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Yes, but those weren't small cars. The Citation came along a bit later, though:
Chevrolet Citation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Vega was the Pinto's contemporary, and wasn't by any means a small car. (I actually owned one once: it's the reason I haven't owned an American car since.)
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Because what cars Suzuki makes are ideally suited for those markets. But they're nearly dead in America because, again, Americans don't like small cars, at least not in enough numbers for them to consider importing their best-sellers from elsewhere... and because GM made them sell absolutely craptastic Daewoo rebadges... which didn't help their image all that much.
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Seems like you're using a circular argument here. Suzuki won't import small cars because "Americans don't like small cars", but GM forces them to import poor quality small cars? Do you suppose it could possibly be the poor quality that keeps Americans from buying these cars, not the size?
There also seems to be quite a following for the Suzuki Samurai & Sidekick. And indeed, for many of the smaller '80s and '90s Hondas & Toyotas. Now why are people buying these used, and often spending quite a bit of money on mods, if Americans don't like small cars?