A Story of Retro Cars that Didn't Survive Past a Generation - autoevolution
Awesome-looking cars that get discontinued after a single generation are pretty much like the movie Limitless - they create a lot of commotion in the beginning, get everyone to talk about them and even receive rave reviews, only to end up in the... " This is pretty much how Volkswagen's New Beetle, BMW's current MINI (not to be confused with the original Mini), and even modern muscle cars like the Mustang, Challenger and Camaro came to be looking so nostalgic instead of introducing a... Volvo 480 and Volvo C30. The first on this list is Volvo, who tried not once, but twice in three decades to introduce some retro design spice into its (at the time) classic lineup design. Launched at the 1986 Geneva Motor Show, the 480 was Volvo's first ever front-wheel-drive car. Although rather modern at the time, the Volvo 480's overall design had a substantially retro motif, meant to bring back memories of the sexy P1800 ES - which was a shooting brake version of the P1800 made famous by. Source: www.autoevolution.com
