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... Trump often complains about what he sees as a refusal to accept U.S. cars while the Japanese, opens new tab and Europeans sell millions of automobiles a year into the United States.

In recent trade deals both markets agreed to drop or ease safety tests on American vehicle imports. Europe will lower levies on U.S. cars.

But it may take more than a change of rules and lower tariffs to convince Japanese and European consumers, who contend with narrow roads and painfully tight parking, to buy big American-made Ford F-150 trucks and Cadillac Escalade SUVs. ...

On a recent weekday, he was servicing two Chevrolets, a lustrous brown 1971 Nova and a low-slung 1986 El Camino, both with their steering wheels on the left.

In Japan, steering is on the right. ...