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Fiat Strada. This here rig comes in two flavors: the older models are tiny lil' pickups — real small, but scrappy. The newer ones, up to about five years old, are more like big ol' Isuzu Troopers or Toyota Hilux trucks — real workhorses, built tough for the long haul. You can trick these babies out real nice, slap on some chrome, lift the suspension, add a light bar — make ’em look mean and mighty fine. And get this: 'bout ten years back, Fiat went and bought out the whole dang Chrysler group. Yup, the whole enchilada. These days, a lotta their rides look a whole lot like Chryslers and Dodges. That goes for Lancia and Alfa Romeo too — all of ’em got a bit of that American muscle flair now. Renault Kangoo. This baby rolled onto the scene back in '99 — 'round the same time my old man got a real hankerin’ to buy one. It's still one slick-lookin’ box-on-wheels, and you can even get it in a tall-boy version with four-wheel drive for takin’ on dirt roads or muddy ...

The Lada Granta is a car that ain't imported to Norway. What folks in Norway don’t know is that even though Lada’s got a bit of a bad rep, it’s the exact same car as Dacia, Renault, and the newly established Datsun from Nissan Motor Co. There’ve always been plenty of Renault and Nissan Datsun cars in Norway, with Datsun being older models since they switched their name to Nissan back in the 80s. And by the way, Renault used to own about 70% of Lada before they went belly up because of the war in Ukraine... Renault's part of that whole Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance now. Dacia's got the four-wheel-drive version called the Duster, but sadly, the Dacia Logan’s real rare. Same with the Renault Logan, and ain't nobody seen a Datsun Go or a Datsun On-Do from Nissan either, since they were made for the Russian market. Lada Granta’s basically the same car, and man, they’re real cool. They've even been in the WTCC car races. Like I said, I sure wish more Norwegians cou...