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Old 11-28-2023, 07:22 PM   #765 (permalink)
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According to Amaral Gurgel, every car with a thumper was a commercial failure, so even though he often took a minimalistic approach to his "people's car" project a twin-cylinder was intended to make it less likely to fail. Yet it failed mostly due to political reasons than anything else.
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