Tom Hanks and the craze for classic communist cars

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When Tom Hanks visited Budapest, he fell in love with a communist icon: the tiny Polski Fiat 126p. Every time he saw one parked on the street, with its boxy form and adorable winking headlights, he would post a photo on Twitter with the caption: “My new car!” Residents of the Polish town of Bielsko-Biała, where Fiat produced the car from the 1970s, took him…