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In the 1960s, the car became a kind of metaphor for the success of the middle class, which thought it was different from its parents and perhaps from relatives who had not left the countryside to go and work in the city. Achieving economic success was difficult, but cars were starting to be means of transport within everyone's reach, and they became more and more widespread. It was enough to drive a nice car to boast of an economic and social status that had not been fully achieved. The nice car replaced poor education, humble origins, a childhood spent in the provinces, and made the Italian a winner in the eyes of his neighbor.