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It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)
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[–] shashi154263@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here we have higher taxes for cars more than 4m long, so there are lots of small cars. Also, a lot of 3.99m cars.

[–] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Japan bases their taxes on engine size and gives significant tax brakes to cars 660cc and under. 3.0L and up are basically luxury vehicles there.