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🗓️ 11 December 2025
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Trump’s tiny car idea sparks a heated debate on regulation, safety, affordability and the future of starter cars. The panel breaks down CAFE rules, emissions incentives, lane design, oil supply and why Dan Pena thinks tiny cars are a death trap.
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| 0:00.0 | The one thing that I like, are you following this tiny car thing closely? Are you following |
| 0:04.9 | that closely time on what's going on with the tiny car? Dude, can you pull up the tiny car |
| 0:08.1 | Trump idea? So here's a couple challenges that we have. If you just go back and type in tiny |
| 0:14.7 | car and go to news, go to Tiny Car, Trump Tiny Car News. Pick one of them of what they're doing. |
| 0:39.3 | Trump's Tiny Car Dream. Okay, next one, if you don't mind going, Rob. The third one says Trump's tiny car dream has problems. Okay, so what are the problems? You see that Japanese Kai cars that he's talking about? If you pull that up, what do they look like, yeah. Forget about what they look like. Honestly, when you're younger, you don't really care about what they look like. You're trying to find the thing that you can afford, right? |
| 0:42.3 | Like even what you want and what you can afford are two different things. |
| 0:46.3 | Look what happened with car regulation in America, okay? |
| 0:50.3 | During the 70s, gas prices three X in a decade. |
| 0:55.5 | During the 70s. |
| 0:57.0 | Gas went from 30 cents to a dollar in a decade. |
| 1:01.3 | Who gets elected next? |
| 1:03.1 | Reagan. |
| 1:04.0 | Reagan comes out with something called the Cafe. |
| 1:06.9 | Rob, can you type in Reagan Cafe Cars, okay? |
| 1:12.2 | The regulation, which stands for corporate average fuel economy under Reagan, that he came out with this, you know, issues on how to address this. |
| 1:21.2 | So then there was a couple different things that we looked at during that time. |
| 1:24.5 | This led to through 2008, 2011, 2012, they came out with new emission standards |
| 1:31.5 | that the bigger the car was, the easier it was for your car to get approved on the emission |
| 1:39.0 | standards that we had. So think about this, Adam. I don't know if you have this chart or not, |
| 1:42.9 | Rob. If you don't have it, I'll send it to you. Here, check this out. Just show this year. And let me send you Trump's tweet on tiny cards. This is so interesting for all of us to be looking at because I think this is at least something that they're doing. Let me know when you got it. All the three ones. One of them is his tweet and then it's the pictures of the emission standard cars and how ridiculous it is what we've done to the market with cars. We have incentivized companies to build bigger cars. He wants to introduce an 11-foot car. Now, the 11-foot car, a small sedan right now is 12 and a half to 13 and a half feet. |
| 2:20.4 | Then you have trucks that go from 13 and a half to 16 and a half feet. And then you have the |
| 2:26.0 | SUVs that go 18 and a half. And you have the bigger trucks that can go all the way up to 22 feet. |
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