Re: Vehicles that created a market segment or genre
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series Land Rover - Jeep practicality for the rural landscape and huge export markets, use of aluminium so panels still havent rusted 70 years later, could run machinery off its PTO, 4x4 ability.
Toyota Landcruiser - this with reliability
original Mini - fwd economy car, designed brilliantly once and copied millions of times. Cooper begins hot hatch genre to my knowledge.
Toyota corolla - simplicity of build (original one) with fewer parts and great reilability and build quality. Has sold millions.
Range Rover - the luxury 4x4. Aspirational. Comfort, luxury and capability off road, becomes a status symbol.
FX Holden - national pride postwar, and a series of affordable, 6 cylinder powered cars for everyday aussie families. Before, it was mostly either 4cyl Brit/euro or 8cyl American.
RAV4 - birthed from the mechanicals of the curious 4x4 corolla, the high riding SUV first hits the 1990s market. Look at them now...
Suby Outback - AWD wagon that handled and was not a heavy duty 4x4
1934 Ford Australia coupe utility. Ie, the body is integrated as a coupe. Uniquely Australian, and not a separate cab or dual cab with a tray. Last coupe utility was VF.
Moon buggy and Mars rovers. Taking driving to other orbiting bodies. And surviving orbital drops before years of reliable use in landscapes tougher than the Pilbara.
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I6 + AWD
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