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That's why they don't sell, chickadee, not because people don't want them. This business about people not wanting small cars is a myth perpetrated by the Big Three in order to keep Congress from intervening with things like CAFE. The truth is, we just don't want the crappy small cars the Big Three makes. Good small cars like the Honda Civic sell quite well, thank you very much.
As toothless as CAFE is, and as lame as the ever-so-gradual rise in CAFE standards proposed by Congress are, the Big Three would still rather cry and complain about it than do something. God forbid they should ever have to admit that other people (Congress, Toyota engineers, etc.) were right and they were wrong. Would it kill GM (for example) to go out and buy a Toyota Corolla, take it apart, and figure out why it's so much better than the cars they make? Probably, because that would involve incorporating things into their production processes that Weren't Invented Here, and (what is the world coming to?) selling something that people actually want and need instead of telling people what they want and need, namely that big, godawful, ugly truck thing with the $10,000 markup.
