"It's easy to want to drive one of these cute kei cars. It's another thing to put your family in them and travel down the highway at 70 mph," one expert said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280

If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The US has pretty low speed limits in most areas.

    Most Kei Cars can reach 140km/h (87.5mph), which is faster than any speed limit I can find in the US.

    If you don’t have to move a massive amount of truck, a small engine can go a long way.

    Btw, my first car was a tiny Peugeot 106 with 42 HP. I had no problem getting up to the 130km/h (81.25mph) speed limit on the highways in my country, and the fastest I have ever gone with that car was 160km/h (100mph).

    Modern Kei cars have about 50% more power than that Peugeot 106.