“A small, cheap, light, simple van that French farmers and tradespeople loved for thirty years. Banned now in most of Europe.”
The C15 is the kind of vehicle the regulatory environment has made impossible to build today. Crash standards, emissions standards, and safety mandates all aimed at the right targets, all converging on a market where the cheapest van costs three times what it used to. The poor end up driving older vehicles longer because the new versions of the simple thing they used to buy do not exist. The policy and the outcome are not aligned.