The reason for that is, small cars are not profitable. The only way to make them competitive is to use the same labor techniques the rest of the world uses. Those techniques are not possible in the United States because of the UAW work rules. The answer is to move the plant to where they can make a competitive product.
Like it was in the UK, union labor rules are making the US uncompetitive. Notice there are no British owned car makers anymore. Yes they make cars there, but no Brits own the companies. (That’s because the government got involved in bailing out the companies and then ended up selling them because a government can’t even run a whore house at a profit; proven when the IRS took over The Mustang Ranch.)
Bull.
The Koreans are making plenty of small cars in the Southeast (USA).
All selling quite well I might add.