the race to build REALLY cheap cars

I call BS on every one of you claiming that you would buy one. Why would you spend 3000 of your own dollars on a car that wouldn’t be able to climb a hill with 2 full sized Americans in it? I bet you aren’t currently driving the most inexpensive and fuel efficient vehicle you could find, so why do you say that would change if you could buy the smallest cheapest car India has to offer? If you would buy one of these then why aren’t you currently driving a Geo Metro, Ford Festiva, or the like? Because you can’t buy one new?

These things are meant for third world countries, for tapping into markets where owning a vehicle is otherwise unreachable, where there are no used cars because nobody can afford them new to begin with. They won’t come here.