All very Brazilian

Brazil had a highly protectionist vehicle market in the 1960s, with imports restricted thanks to a specific economic policy.

Under its ‘import substitution industrialisation’ initiative it maintained that the country would be better off creating its own goods as opposed to importing them, which would help create and expand domestic industries, forcing the local manufacture of all manner of interesting cars.

Hence, over the years, Volkswagen do Brasil found customers wanting a supply