It got me to thinking (always a scary proposition) about the state – both current and historic – of American small cars. Not small cars wearing American badges – I'd be forced to recount the horror of the 1980s Pontiac LeMans …. The lack of Big Three compact cars probably also has something to do with the fact that for the last twenty-odd years, the Big Three focused on bigger cars (and trucks) because the Japanese companies weren't making anything like … …

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MArooned: Where Are The Small Cars?