The above cars are three of the classic European automobiles for the masses. The were cheap cars built for the working class. All three have been revived in recent years, and all three revisions have been larger and, more importantly, more expensive. Now I realize that there is big money to be made in nostalgia, but a paranoid part of me cant help but wonder if there is also some sort of desire there to take an iconic thing belonging to the People, and turn it into an overpriced toy.
Crazy? Yeah, probably. Still, the originals were workaday, barebones automobiles, built cheap to be sold cheap to people who probably couldn't afford much else (they certainly couldn't afford the new versions). We have lots of these still, of course, but none so beloved. At least not yet. Perhaps someday, we'll see the return of the "classic" Aveo or Versa. Bigger of course. And unaffordable to working people, but still back.
Right now, I'm waiting for the new 2-CV...
oh crap.
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