The Cheapest Cars America Ever Built

For four decades, American automakers kept chasing the same target: build the cheapest car possible and still call it a car. Some of them pulled a company back from bankruptcy. Others became national jokes, or worse, ended up in a courtroom. This is that full story, one continuous race from the $500 mail-order microcar of the 1950s to the sub-$8,000 sedan of the 1990s, tracing every brand that bet everything on being the cheapest name on the lot, and what it actually cost them to win. #CheapestCars #ClassicCars #AmericanCars