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The David versus Goliath story and its multiple analogues have fascinated humanity for millennia, so it's no surprise that the schema was transposed to the automotive world almost as soon as there were cars. My first exposure to serious writing about cars was Ken Purdy's True magazine encomium to Ettore Bugatti, more than sixty years ago. The image of Bugatti's tiny cars flitting among and beating fourteen- and seventeen-liter racing cars at the beginning of the last century resonated with my barely teenage heart, and I've loved small cars ever since.