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"The simple two box, hatchback body style, combined with front wheel drive, and a transverse mounted water cooled four cylinder would be copied by every other c
by sbaiddn 4y ago
"The simple two box, hatchback body style, combined with front wheel drive, and a transverse mounted water cooled four cylinder would be copied by every other car maker all over the world."
... the FIAT 127, released three years earlier, would like to have a word about who copied who.
It was:
- Transverse mounted FF
- hatchback
- water cooled four cylinder
- released in 1971
- license built by: SEAT Yugo Polski VAZ
- fredoralive 4y agoI could say that the Austin Maxi did those in 1969, although for some reason no one wanted to build it under licence. But the Autobianchi Primula also had hatchback variants and was before that, and unlike the Maxi had the gearbox in a sensible place. Everyone ultimately nicks the bits that work for everyone else of course. I guess the Golf gets a bit more focus because of the names longevity (and that the Mk I Golf was executed excellently), and perhaps because the article is US focussed so misses some of the cars being mostly sold in Europe only.