BYD isn’t the only Chinese brand that wants to crack open Japan’s kei car market. Five companies, including China’s ...

Kei cars in Japan are engineered to a different set of expectations, including lower typical speeds and a road environment where other vehicles are also small. To survive on U.S. highways filled with ...

Today, kei cars have a special category in Japan, where they have to be capped at 660cc and 11.2 feet in length, which is naturally advantageous on urban streets. Kei tax and insurance incentives, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — More Americans are discovering the kei car, the tiny vehicles built initially for the crowded streets of Japan. But ...

On a recent trip to Japan, I dived into 'kei' car culture and how it contrasts with the US automobile market.

European regulators want more cheap micro EVs and Stellantis will deliver them across multiple brands ...

Wellhouse Leisure is no stranger to building small, highly efficient camper vans. As we've seen over the years, it does some ...

Honda's new electric city car for Europe looks like a kei car with bulging fenders. It's likely a widebody version of an actual kei car, which will be sold with a narrower track in Japan. Honda sent a ...

Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...

The President of the United States declared last week that he would like kei cars, the microcars common on the streets of Japan, to be built and sold in the United States to help with the ...

Even the best Japanese kei trucks are getting old, and as more of these compact workhorses pass the 25-year mark, owners and buyers want to know: are they considered classic cars? The answer depends ...

Although Donald Trump doesn't understand why people in Asia don't buy our cars, the main reason is actually pretty simple. Most of their roads and cities are built for much smaller vehicles — like ...