One of the longest and least stable will-they-or-won’t-they relationships isn’t between two people, but all Americans and small cars. And while newly proposed changes to federal fuel economy standards mostly leave the door open for more polluting, bigger gasoline-only vehicles in the future, there was a veiled attempt to widen the types of vehicles available in the US.

The President thinks that includes very small cars, too. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t mean they’d go mainstream here anyway.

During the announcement of the plan to roll back US fuel economy standards to those of a decade ago on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he wanted very small cars as widely seen in some parts of Asia, called kei cars in Japan, to come to this country and also be built here, saying that

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