The framing of your article sees Kei-car from a very specific viewpoint: People with families, living in the US or Europe, living in the not-so-very-dense-city-centers). Given that framing, your point of view makes sense. But as you already mentioned that the Kei-car category was encouraged for a reason, and that…

As my first car, I got a second-hand JDM kei-car. And I live in Pakistan! Its a 2 (or 3, depending on how you count them) door Daihatsu Mira. 0.66 litre engine, with a manual transmission. I don't know how much horsepower it has, nor would I ever want to find out.

Terrifying!! Has to be Karakoram Highway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram_Highway Even the wikipedia page of it has a crashed bus picture in it.