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No, y'all are missing the point.
These cars are being manufactured and sold to sentimental baby boomers, who remember the old Age of Aquarius days when they drove Beetles and Minis and want something to remind them of what it was like to be young. If you have much occasion to enter a toy store you'll find that about half the "new" toys being sold today are reworked versions of the stuff we baby boomers had when we were kids - at ten times the price and in a somewhat tarted-up version because our standards are higher these days - and I'm told a lot of 50 somethings are buying this stuff FOR THEMSELVES.
At the Car Show in Toronto they were touting the "new" 1950s style Thunderbird, but they made the mistake of showing it side by each with the original version, and most people I heard talking about it said they liked the original better.
Cheap sentiment, that's all it is.
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