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as the Zündapp Janus, whose seats folded flat to make a comfortable bed. the
variety of microcars on the market was staggering, with a vast range of marques
encompassing the most primitive, with wire-and-bobbin steering, to the most
sophisticated of engineering marvels employing Formula one-style adjustable
suspension. As most were the creation of individual designers, they reflected
their creators’ varied personalities, with the brilliance or sometimes the foibles
and stubborn crankiness that were the hallmarks of their character. Some were
successful, some less so, but all were interesting.
As with all evolution, the people themselves eventually sorted things out, and
many marques, deserving or otherwise, for reasons under or beyond their control,
fell by the wayside. With the increasing prosperity of the population, the trend was
clearly in the direction of the “real”
car, and the most successful
microcars were those that
were essentially big cars
in miniature, like the
Goggomobil and the Fiat.
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