Ducman69 said:
You got me before my edit. But #1: I am way more important. #2: There are 10 peeps like me who live in the burbs for every one of y'all New York city slickers.

Make the "cool" moto-car first, then the blunt box later if they have to. If they made both, I wouldn't bitch... but I want mines! And would that VW example REALLY be too long for the city? I doubt it.
Yes and the NYC metro area has about 30 million people in and extends across 4 states. That is a subsection of the “megatroplus” that is the northeast US.
This is what a NYC “suburb” looks like…
Your are right the whole country may not need this, but then maybe the northeast US should start getting there own cars, not the same massive land boats the rest of the US gets, and has room for. “Small” cars sell well here, things like the focus (when it first came out) Honda civic, Toyota Corolla/ Matrix, VW Jetta, golf Mazda 3 Volvo S40, Audi A4, Acura TSX etc… all sell very well here. They are usually not seen as super cheep cars, most people buy them with as many options as they can get. If there were more, and nicer choices out I am sure more people would get them.
There isn’t much smaller than C segment that is popular (other than the mini) because most super small cars get really cheep, and are seen as lacking safety features in the US. You wind up seeing the vast majority of the population all driving cars that are either focus side, or accord size, and that is it (not counting SUV’s) Regardless of how the car is used, how many people are in it, or how old the person is. You could see 10 foci parked next to each other and you would see everyone from a 16 year old with his first car, a college student, a family with 2 kids and a dog, and a retired couple in there 70’s get in one.
I don’t know about the rest of the country, but here, if there were actually nice cars available in smaller sizes I am sure that more people would buy them. The focus (at least originally) was seen as a middle end car where I live, just like the Mazda 3 is a middle end $20K family car. I know allot of people that think the focus is “big” and think anything over a 2.0L 4 cylinder is a “big gas guzzling engine” and allot of people have no desire to own a V6.
Talk about culture shock when I went to Florida and saw people driving around duly F250’s and using the same way a focus is used in the NYC area! Up here even people that use trucks like that for work will have a different smaller car for persona use (like a mini!) unless they live where they can take public transit when they are not driving (or just cant get a second parking space)