"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.

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    113·
    4 months ago

    Oh those cars don’t go 70 mph very easily. Yeah maybe you could do it if you have a turbocharged one and then your engine will be fried in a few months

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Nah, i frequently see a 1000cc non-turbo car goes at around 100/110kmph on highway. They’re pretty much capable to do that. Not stable though.