Roo
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- Hampshire, UK
- GTP_Roo
My dad always bought Mazdas almost all my life (my parents had a Nissan Prarie before that) - he had 4 of them at one stage or another when I was growing up. (The only reason he drives an Astra at the moment is becuase it was dirt cheap and he can't afford anything else.) However, my first car is an old Mini. (The other car I was looking at when I bought it was a Land Rover Defender, but I couldn't afford it.) No-one in my immediate or extended family drives a Mini, or even has any interest in them. I don't know where my interest in them came from; I suppose it was watching The Italian Job when I was quite young, and that they're British. Oh, and they're cheap to run and the insurance only wanted an arm and a leg as opposed to all four limbs.
I think the appeal of home-grown cars anywhere is that they're made for the country the company orginated from. Hence American cars being big, comfortable things with less importence placed on handling, because of the dead straight roads and the hugeness of the country; British cars being focused more on handling with smaller engines, becuase is Britain is comparitivly tiny with lots of twisty roads, and the fuel prices hurt. Japan has small cars becuase of the amount of people in small areas (the cities). And so on.
I think the appeal of home-grown cars anywhere is that they're made for the country the company orginated from. Hence American cars being big, comfortable things with less importence placed on handling, because of the dead straight roads and the hugeness of the country; British cars being focused more on handling with smaller engines, becuase is Britain is comparitivly tiny with lots of twisty roads, and the fuel prices hurt. Japan has small cars becuase of the amount of people in small areas (the cities). And so on.
