QOTD: Which Compact Concept Do You Wish Had Been Built?

by Tim Healey

Published: December 17th, 2025

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Matthew Guy went over some recent small concept cars that for whatever reason didn't make production.

Which one do you wish had been built?

It doesn't have to be one of the one's that Matthew listed -- it can be any small concept car that was on display during the past, oh, 10-15 years or so.

You guys know what to do. Go ahead and sound off below.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Oberkanone 8 hours ago

Not a concept, definitely compact, Alpine A110 is too nice to not be sold in USA. The Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi partnership never resulted in anything nice here in USA. Heck, they could have at least badge engineered the Alpine as a Mistubishi Evo.

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ToolGuy™ 5 hours ago

Most compact cars sold in the USA aren't very good.
Hopefully the Rivian R3 will be good.

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