Try as they might, automakers simply haven’t been able to sell small cars to people in the United States, no matter how hard they push. The original Ford Fiesta, for example, was intended to be a world car, but it did so poorly in North America that it was immediately dropped after the first generation. American tastes and needs are vastly different from those of European and Japanese drivers, which is why the small, city-friendly car never really managed
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