I think that's not entirely true. All city cars were still all made by foreign car makers. I think Gurgel only tried to make city cars around the 80s and they w

I think that's not entirely true. All city cars were still all made by foreign car makers. I think Gurgel only tried to make city cars around the 80s and they wanted to go electric (given how much energy became available to the country after Itaipu was built). I wouldn't say they didn't benefit on high import taxes, but they were truly trying to make something good and new.