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Originally Posted by GenXer
The Cadillac was the first car to have "modern" controls which we take for granted.
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Indeed, and Herbert Austin took that concept and applied it to the Austin Seven making it the first car for the masses that was like that, so maybe the Seven was more important than the Caddy?
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Originally Posted by GenXer
The Mini was significant for the UK and the Fiat for Italy but it never went to the East or the US like the Beetle
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So......
Mini was more than significant for the UK, as the Issigonis transverse engine/fwd layout pretty much defined the layout of almost all future small cars....including the Beetle's successor, the Golf.
The layout was even the inspiration to the Lambo engineers that designed the Muira!!
Just because a load of hippy's in the USA bought Adolf Hitler's KdF-Wagen doesn't signify it as being more important
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