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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By the mid-fifties, prosperity had returned to the industrialised countries and car-makers started to produce more exotic vehicles. America produced some of the most beautiful and some of the ugliest metal sculptures the world has seen. Meanwhile the Europeans, focusing on performance rather than size, produced some almost equally beautiful yet impractical sports cars. America's reply to the European sports car came in the form of the Corvette and Thunderbird.
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In Australia, attempts to emulate the American model resulted in
relative failure while Holden's development of the "family
six" gave it unprecedented market dominance.
