Word: microcar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voila, the microcar. For about a decade, this urban motorist's dream has been available to thousands of car owners in rural France. In the late 1970s, another era of spiraling oil costs and Middle East tension, a handful of automakers developed midget voitures sans permis (no-license cars) to meet the needs of older consumers in a countryside poorly served by public transportation. Now, as metropolitan streets clog with traffic, savvy businessmen, fashion models and young professionals have seized upon the VSP as a practical, low-hassle alternative to conventional cars for darting around France's major cities...
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