Anyone watch MegaRetr's videos on Facebook? He's a youtuber from Russia and he does these english-speaking Saabkyle04-style car review/tour videos where he shows everything about the car. He has a K12 Micra on his channel.
Anyway he did a video of this car, it's a VAZ 11113 which is a bare-bones, cheap hatchback sold in Russia. It has an 800cc carburated inline two-cylinder engine mated a 4-speed manual and it supposively (according to him) gets an average combined fuel economy of 5.0L/100km. That's amazing!
I'm showing you this because I was pretty fascinated with this car and I bet it probably costs pocket change to buy one and run it and it probably lasts forever. In the video he did the tour of a 2005 model (yes I know the car looks like it was made in the 1980s) and he did a driving video of a 1995 model. Both cars drove and ran equally as well.
Anyone who owns a Micra S manual, the $9998 one, or a base model Mitsu Mirage, even a Geo Metro, this car makes your car look like a Cadillac.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pGAmNnCnS4
I just wonder if it is at all possible for automakers to make simple, cheap cars like this for say $5000 or less. Just throw a few airbags in it and add fuel-injection so it passes environment tests, and that's it. Not everyone can even afford a new Micra/Mirage at $10k. This would be a $5000 or even cheaper brand new car that just about anybody could buy!