A modern day hachiroku

[The Doctor]

i think it's pretty impossible for a big make, to launch a car which weighs no more then 1000 kgs (that's what you want if you want to keep the price down).

with all those silly safety rules nowadays.
700 airbags, abs, ebd, cbt, opq, zlf, qrp, agtpf-x etc. etc.

It all ads weight to the car.
And to give it nice handling and power, you need a big engine.
By then you need bigger suspension parts, bigger brakes.

Bigger engine demands more cooling, more cooling demands more space, thus more weight (look what happend with the Veyron, they need the silly 1000bhp to get the 2000+ kg car moving)