Camila Domonoske

I was doing this story in December where I was meeting with a group of K-Car enthusiasts.

You know, K-Car is the tiny little Japanese cars.

They're just these...

teeny tiny little cars, very common in Japan, very hard to get in the US.

President Trump commented on how we should have more of them here.

I went and I just talked to these people about their cars.

Sounds kind of like an angry sewing machine.

That's Andrew Maxson.

We're riding in his red AutoZam AZ-1, a vehicle he lovingly calls ridiculous.

We're sitting a few inches off the ground with the turbo engine a few inches behind our heads, racing at 40 miles per hour.

Maxson founded the Capital K Car Club, which gathered at a park in northern Virginia this month to talk with me about their beloved little vehicles, which are best described as... Tiny.

It's so fun to talk to people who are as excited about something as anybody who loves their cars.

I'm obsessed with this question.

It is one of the most interesting questions in the auto industry right now, I think, because it doesn't seem sustainable long term, right?

For there to be vehicles that are cheaper and by all accounts just plain better that the U.S.

is keeping out of.

And this is something that the auto industry is acutely aware of.

And, you know, whether it's probably not under the Trump administration allowing a huge number of EVs to be imported from China, but could a Chinese automaker take up shop in the US and build vehicles here?

in North America for North America.

Could Chinese companies partner with U.S.