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Yup, the Maxi was an awful, completely silly car with all sorts of weird features which no sensible car had ever combined before, including
- a transverse engine instead of a longitudinal one
- front-wheel-drive instead of rear-wheel-drive
- a five-speed gearbox instead of a four-speed one
- five doors including a huge lifting tailgate instead of four and a fiddly little bootlidNo wonder it never caught on and no-one copied it. Unlike the revolutionary, 'trend-setting' VW beetle with its flat-four, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled engine, overhanging the rear of the car - a layout which, er, no other manufacturer has ever been foolish enough to copy.
Or the equally revolutionary, trend-setting 2CV Citroen with its horizontally-opposed, air-cooled flat-twin engine. Although it did at least have a big hatchback and (like all Citroens) front-wheel-drive.
Yes, the Maxi was an awful, weird car with features and a layout which every other manufacturer subsequently copied and which for many decades now have been pretty-much universal for family cars.
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