You surely mean anyone who can *remember* sampling cashasa will testify :-)
I took a couple
of bottles to a party of supposedly hard drinking mates once...it got drank,
but there were some ill
people the day after :-)) But what do you expect from something that's 50%
alcohol, comes in a
plastic bottle, and cost R$3.50 a litre at a time there was R$5 to a
quid...? :-)

Mick

I believe some ethanol does go into the mix with some petrols. Maybe it
is to sweep up the dregs in the petrol stations.

But Brazil is reducing its forests to grow sugar and cattle at an
astonishing rate. And were they not also committing genocide to push
through their roads somewhere in the time scale mentioned by the OP?

So how is this enlightened behaviour?

The 1980s was about the time that Cadillac brought out their terrible
clunker; a small underpowered car that made all the baddies look silly
as they got out of them to confront the good guys on TV, was it not?

What happened to that, anyone know? Gone the way of flared trousers and
long hair no doubt. No wonder the US is taking its time bringing out
decent cars.

Europe was well into small cars by then and experimenting with
different engine styles. What was Ford up to with its cam shafts around
that time? I vaguely remember some sort of advertising hoo-hah about an
oil assisted valve mechanism in the Fraud Escort.