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MID-MOUNTED LOAD-LUGGER

AFTER World War II, Japan had extremely limited resources and little access to raw materials. Add to that a large urban population where space was an equally rare commodity. The result was a country where the car as we knew it simply wouldn’t work.

The result was a set of guidelines set by the government. A

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