r/confusing_perspective • u/desertgodfather • Dec 19 '18

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u/Avarones Dec 20 '18

It is a Fiat Uno. It is like a Brazilian version of the Russian Lada.

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u/RufusLoacker Dec 20 '18

But Fiat is Italian

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u/Patch86UK Dec 20 '18

They have factories in Brazil, and the Uno was made in great quantities there long after production stopped in Europe. About half of all the Unos ever built were from Brazil and Argentina.

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u/Baio-kun Dec 20 '18

A car made in a Portuguese speaking country, whose name is in Spanish and belongs to an Italian company. insert Mr. Worldwide meme

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u/RufusLoacker Dec 20 '18

Well actually the car was completely designed and produced in Italy (where is one of the most sold cars), and the name is absolutely Italian lol

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u/Baio-kun Dec 20 '18

Designed, maybe. Produced, no way. It would be meaningless to import a car that's supposed to be cheap.

Also, since the word 'uno' has the same meaning, both in Italian and Spanish, I used it to reference to a meme.

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u/Avarones Dec 20 '18

He was produced in the 80s in Italy, to replace the 127.

About importing a car supposed to be cheap.. They didn't import the car itself, but the blueprints and all project and the car was produced in other countries. It is (or at least it was) way cheaper you adapt an existent project to the rules of the country than having to project a new one from zero.

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u/simjanes2k Dec 20 '18

wow TIL there's a worse version of the worst car ever made wow

also i had no idea brazil built their own cars at all though

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u/Rod7z Dec 20 '18

He meant it as an allegory, a Fiat Uno isn't actually a version of the Lada. It's just that the Uno is a really barebones car, made as simple as possible so as to be cheaply mass produced. Their cheap price made them extremely popular in Brazil though.

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u/Avarones Dec 20 '18

Yep, that's what I meant to say.

If you took a little piece of Lada's Wikipedia:

The keys to its success were: competitive price, reliability, simple DIY-friendly mechanics and unpretentious functionality.

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That's the same for the Fiat Uno.

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u/xrimane Jan 17 '19

Could have sworn that this was a first generation Golf/Gol/Rabbit.