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As an American, I'm gonna barge in with my loud opinion, 'cuz that's what we do. Here's something which people living elsewhere might not know that Americans aren't ready to hear:
Automobiles are luxury toys and fashion accessories, and we shouldn't base our entire lives on them. No, the car industry didn't make our economy strong; it took off after we already had a lot of extra wealth to burn after becoming a world economic powerhouse. We can't afford to keep wasting all that wealth on them as the world starts to burn, and half of our citizens sink into poverty.
Quite a few people buy cars just because they need to get places and there's not good alternatives. Otherwise why would cars like the Sentra or CRV exist? Just making it so those folks don't need to buy one would do a lot to make cars more luxurious and fashionable.
I like how you cite cars which are fairly reasonable options when the Mitsubishi Mirage exists.
I have one of those! Its a manual!
I thought about getting one but then I watched the crash test of a pickup hitting the side and read that they have the most deaths is any vehicle.
I sorta feel like getting hit by a pickup in anything is a bad time but I will say it is a very small car and very light.
I was gonna mention it but thankfully it's been discontinued