Brazil is automobile Australia. Due to weird protectionist policies imported cars were virtually unheard of in Brazil for a long time. VW skirted around this by establishing a manufacturing base there and running it almost like a franchise. VW do Brasil generated some perfectly recognizable products like Beetles, but others were distinct (like the Gol) and VW running gear was really convenient for other manufacturers: hello, Puma.

So a lot of automotive evolution took place without the usual competition being dominated by the global heavyweights like Ford, though of course VW is most definitely the elephant in this particular room. For everything else, imagine if cars in the rest of the world are varieties of deer and other ungulates, but in Brazil they're marsupials. Car kangaroos.

And of course the Amazonas motorcycle. That's a platypus.