3 Small Classic Cars That Helped To Put Europe on Wheels
This piece is dedicated to some fewer known cars that helped to mobilize Europe
This day had to come. Today is the day when I’m going to take some of my time to tell you about something I know a lot about — cars. And I’m going to mention some of the small vehicles that helped Europe to start moving after WWII.
Without them, most European citizens would not have been able to own a car until much later.
1. Seat 600
It wasn’t fast, it wasn’t luxurious, and it wasn’t big. But it was cheap enough to help Spain motorize itself from the late fifties to the early seventies.
After the Spanish Civil War, the country was devastated and severely impoverished. The Franco regime — a dictatorship that lasted almost 40 years, created several industries to develop Spain’s industry, it invested a lot in the automotive industry, creating among others the SEAT — Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo.
The SEAT factory used designs by FIAT under FIAT’s license and assembled them in Spain, creating jobs and…
