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>ridiculous emmissions regulations are what killed cars as much as any market cronyism.
No prior administration bothered closing the light truck exemption, which prompted every manufacturer to start pushing crossovers and SUVs in lieu of cars. I'll leave you to determine whether the culprit here is the emissions regs themselves or "market cronyism."

>Relaxed regulations, particularly for older vehicle designs, will allow many people to have reliable, sporty and wrench able cars.
You aren't even getting a situation like the Nissan Tsuru or a Lada Riva. Where a cheap manual car with a classic design stays in production for decades. This is because American assembly lines are geared towards making the kind of shit in pic related. They have no incentive nor means to go back to making anything older. So this is what you'll keep getting in lieu of cheap, sporty cars. The damage is already done. The only way carmakers would ever change course is by mandating they make what you're describing. But that would mean actually regulating them.