TYCHY, Poland — For decades, automakers looking for the secret to small-car success would journey to Toyota City in Japan.
And, as usual, there is the odd strategy of European carmakers showing off very important products before a largely European press, although these cars' success will be measured not on the Continent but a continent away, in the U.S. Never mind.
How this performs in a steel-sprung, fleet-friendly C5 will be a key factor in the car's success.
The car's success is more or less dictated by a web of regulations that have repressed competition.
The car, a success elsewhere, was meant to help build brand loyalty and send Toyota hurtling toward its goal of selling one million vehicles annually in one of the world's largest auto markets.
In "Sleeper", a futuristic Woody Allen came across a long-abandoned Beetle (it started first time).On the strength of the car's success, VW opened its first factory in America.
Mr Bursa reckons that as volume has increased, bringing greater economies of scale, the comparison may now be even more favourable.In some ways even Renault has been surprised by the car's success.
That may not be a big selling point in the United States, where the Mini is not well known -- particularly among the young people crucial to the new car's success.
For about six hundred dollars a week, parents get weekly e-mails from their children's counsellors and reports measuring their kids' progress on a variety of metrics — from jump shots to progress at building a car to success at being a community member.
They have different solutions to the same problems, and how well those are implemented defines the car's success and failure.
He said of the cars phenomenal success in the 50s: "That would be like entering a car that you had just built yourself, with no massive car knowledge, at your father's engineering plant, in to Formula One and winning the constructors championship in your first season".
