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Family
Values - By the early sixties, most Baby Boomers were teenagers and their parents need more practical transportation than the winged monsters and cute little sports cars of the late fifties.
In Europe the effort to produce small, affordable cars had begun in the fifties and culminated in 1960 with Mini. Meanwhile, the leading edge of European sports cars moved away from open "roadsters" and "spyders" to the slightly more practical sports coupes.
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In
America, this led cars like to the Ford Falcon, designed to be a
low cost family car, and the Ford Mustang, promoted as everyman's
Thunderbird sports car.
Australia also had a version of the
Ford Falcon aiming, along with cars from Chrysler and British Motors, to capture some of the family car
market dominated by General Motors' Holden.