Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
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