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Smart or Twingo don’t qualify as Kei cars FWIW. Ami might?


The Smart EQ is small enough to be a Kei car and could downrate the engine from 80HP to 63. Is it missing something else from the category?


Technically it’s not far too wide but it’s…it feels too thick and nice to call it a Kei to me, Kei is more like Ford Transit van scaled down to Smart footprint while retaining four seatbelts.

Maybe this is a pedantic argument like whether a Dyson cleaners qualify as “a typical handy vacuum” but those aren’t bland Walmart specials.


Smart fortwo is sold as kei car, named Smart K.




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