VW Beetle Didn't Change Germany, LADA didn't change Russia...

[PaykanHunter]

VW Beetle Didn't Change Germany, LADA didn't change Russia, Hindustan Ambassador didn't change India.

Which People's Car (national car) did change its country?... 

 

Hit me with your thoughts. Cheers!

 

 

 

[Junkman]

The Ford T deffo changed America, if not the World.

Also, I would slightly debate, that the Beetle didn't change Germany.

[oldcars]

Don't know if it changed the country but Reliant 3 wheelers helped get bikers in cars.

[PaykanHunter]

The Ford T deffo changed America, if not the World.

Also, I would slightly debate, that the Beetle didn't change Germany.

Don't you think America was too big to be changed by Model-T?... Also please explain about the Beetle and Germany. Cheers!... 

[PaykanHunter]

Don't know if it changed the country but Reliant 3 wheelers helped get bikers in cars.

LOL!... 

[derskine]

Trabant.

[Noel Tidybeard]

mini bridged the social gap

[PaykanHunter]

Trabant.

Trabant changed East Germany? How?... 

[Timewaster]

Go on then, I'll bite.

 

The Hillman Hunter / Paykan revolutionised Iran or wherever.

 

Happy now?

[PaykanHunter]

Go on then, I'll bite.

 

The Hillman Hunter / Paykan revolutionised Iran or wherever.

 

Happy now?

Heheheh.... I didn't say that. Well... Not yet.  

[chaseracer]

2CV.

[Matt]

Surely it depends on what you mean by change. If you make cars available to thousands, or even millions, of people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to own one the butterfly effect of them being able to go places, do things, work farther from home etc could be colossal.

[John F]

PaykanHunter, on 14 Oct 2015 - 4:29 PM, said:

Heheheh.... I didn't say that. Well... Not yet.

 

Surely it can't be the Paykan because it's not a home-grown product?

 

It was a foreign design assembled from CKDs or built under licence, since replaced by another design built on a foreign platform (Samand / Pug 405).

[derskine]

Trabant changed East Germany? How?... 

 

Littered the country with duroplast carcasses.

[Eddie Honda]

The Crouton Saga did change Malaysia into a Mitsubishi cast-off producing country. Er, um.

[pshome]

Trabant changed East Germany? How?... 

for sure it did, the 2 stroke engine smell was omnipresent. You could cross the border blind folded and immediatly tell which side your are.

[LabRat]

The original kdf beetle didn't really change Germany as it was too expensive and by the time the average worker had saved up enough, the factory had been converted to produce panzer and kubelwagens... After the war Volkswagen started production proper and then the legend* began.

 

I suppose it could be argued that the mini helped changed Britain by tying into the fashion culture of the 1960's (or not as the case may be...)

 

 

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[Des]

Audi have changed this country, for the fucking worse.

Austin changed the world, for the better.

[Cavcraft]

I don't know about changing a country but I'd have thought the Morris 1000 was a massive leap for Britain, ditto the ADO16.

 

The 205 was a huge leap forward for Peugeot, if not France itself. Robust, small, economical, reliable and I reckon poles apart from the standard stuff Peugeot were chucking out at the time .

[Asimo]

Dunno, but the Landrover changed country life.

[Sloth in a bowl]

ok, I'll bite on this.

 

The Austin 7 changed the world. When it was born in 1922, if you made more than a few hundred cars of one type that was a massive production run.

In the 17 years of production, about 290,000 7's were made.

 

They created a stable industry for car parts manufacturers such as Lucas so they those companies could specialise.

Copies of the 7 were made in Germany, France, Japan and other countries forming the nucleus of the world car industry at a time that meant that it's pedal and control layout became the world standard we know today. Mr Ford's car never did this.

 

Austin 7s were also the basis for the post war club racing in the UK from which much of our world beating racing industry was created.

 

Once the Austin 7 was created then the world knew that they could produce a car for the people and it wasn't a piece of shit Tin Lizzie.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Hitler changed W H Smiths magazine line up and led to a vast array of unwanted mugs and fridge magnets.

[Bear]

The Beetle changed Brazil, in many ways.

[garethj]

The Beetle changed Germany, during the 1950s and '60s it was part of Germany's economic miracle which brought in hugely valuable foreign currency, it also built the reputation that VW traded on for decades after.  For many, many years they were making over one and a half million cars a year and I think around 1969 they almost reached 2 million cars a year.

 

That's a big deal.

[Pete-M]

The Morris Marina changed Britain.

 

People realised foreign cars were a lot better than BL chod.

[Bear]

The Ford Cortina and Capri changed Britain. By producing similar cars with distinct, comparable trim levels, the obsession with status and wealth exemplified in the spread from L to GXL.

[New POD]

ok, I'll bite on this.

 

The Austin 7 changed the world. When it was born in 1922, if you made more than a few hundred cars of one type that was a massive production run.

In the 17 years of production, about 290,000 7's were made.

 

They created a stable industry for car parts manufacturers such as Lucas so they those companies could specialise.

Copies of the 7 were made in Germany, France, Japan and other countries forming the nucleus of the world car industry at a time that meant that it's pedal and control layout became the world standard we know today. Mr Ford's car never did this.

 

Austin 7s were also the basis for the post war club racing in the UK from which much of our world beating racing industry was created.

 

Once the Austin 7 was created then the world knew that they could produce a car for the people and it wasn't a piece of shit Tin Lizzie.

And interesting that the Austin 7 was designed in Lord Austin's Billiard Room, with 3 draughtsmen and an apprentice, the other side of the Lickey Hills from The AUSTIN at Longbridge.

 

As I understand it, (from a book I borrowed from Rednal Library in 1993), the spec was thus:

 

Must be able to get up Rose Hill Forwards, Fully Laden.

Should be able to stay Parked on Rose Hill whilst fully laden.

Should be able to pull away from parked half way up the hill, and

Should be able to Stop in a reasonable time and distance, when driven DOWN Rose Hill, Fully Laden.

Must cost less than £100 (or something like that)

[Bear]

Half the cars on AS wouldn't pass that test. Apart from the cost.

[New POD]

The Morris Marina changed Britain.

 

People realised foreign cars were a lot better than BL chod.

Or perhaps.

 

The Datsun Sunny Changed Britain.

 

People realised all cars were a lot better than the Morris Marina.

[twosmoke300]

Half the cars on AS wouldn't pass that test. Apart from the cost.

That made me chuckle . It's funny cos it's true !