ARO, ARO, have you seen a brown horse?

There was a time when the Pitești - Câmpulung Muscel - Brasov axis became the symbol of the Romanian car and truck industry. Dacia in Mioveni, ARO in Câmpulung and Steagul Roșu trucks in Brasov were symbols heavily exploited by communist propaganda to demonstrate the superiority of the centralized system and the glory of the trope of the march of the working class towards the Leninist Paradise. Mioveniul, a village near Pitesti, was thus dramatically transformed into an industrial melting pot that was to become the symbol of Romanians' road mobility.

First with the Dacia 1100, then with the timeless Dacia 1300, the car that made Romanian drivers experts in car mechanics, capable of repairing the car anywhere, at the side of the road, because it broke down very often. The truth is that whatever happened, from a broken engine fan belt, to a fractured planetary gearbox, to a fried induction coil, the Romanian driver had a remedy. That's why the trunk of the Daci

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Arhitectura 3-4/2024 (711-712)
The car and the city