Yeah, but it’ll probably be a lot roomier to live out of that bigger car once most of us become homeless, amplified by the incoming stupidity.

SUVs get very good gas mileage today, which was not the case 15 years ago. A current Rav4 gets better fuel economy than a 2007 Prius did. It can’t match a current Prius, but 40mpg is probably good enough.

I own a Fit, and recently drove a new Civic. To me it's too big.

The accord has been longer than 193" and wider than 73" since 2008.

Maybe not the immediate generation prior, but a Civic in 2000 was about the same size as a 2018 Honda Fit (164" vs 160"), and an Accord in 2000 (186") is about the same as the Civic today (184").

Did American consumers abandon sedans/smaller cars, or did American manufacturers do that?  

This is a cycle that repeats itself. Remember when fuel prices started driving people out of SUVs into small cars, and thefts of small cars went through the roof? Yeah, it wasn’t that long ago. Then people started buying mega trucks and SUVs again. And now the cycle is repeating itself.

Some of us just want small cars. I always have. I always will. 

It doesn’t hurt that “small” cars aren’t that small anymore.

Growing up in the 80 I’m still shocked that we’re talking about a 9sec 1/4 mile Corvette.

I think you got your trim levels a bit mixed up. People have been able to buy a Z06 at MSRP for months now (I know, because I custom ordered one). There are even some small discounts popping up on cars that were ordered as dealer stock.

The ZR1 isn’t for the drag strip.  It’s a super car...drive it to the track, go really fast around turns, go home.  What is the ZR1's Nordschleife time?

Lots of talk.  Let's see what actually happens.

One thing not mentioned that I think is more favorable, (as in people aren’t giving up their giant trucks... and nobody will drive 15 mph anyway) is to design streets with fewer car-pedestrian interactions. 

Simply enforcing the existing speed limits would reduce speed buy about 10mph. 

Right, and also to that end, the DFP article is kinda twisting the IIHS statement that they quoted:

But speed limits are no longer enforced.

It'd never fly at the federal level even if we didn't have a demented doofus coming into office, but on the municipal level, nobody on the city council will care that Chuck from the Burbs will cry if he has to leave his toy truck at the city line, because he doesn't vote in their elections.

Considering they’re discussing 100% and 200% tariffs, he might do more than yawn. But he’s still going to buy it. 

Pretty sure that the guy who’s on a 3 year wait list to get his SF90 is going to yawn when Ferrari tells him the price just went up by 10% because of tariffs.