But today's bread-and-butter cars are expensive, no question.
Its bread-and-butter car, the Legacy, accounts for two-thirds of its total sales.
To begin with, thieves went for the likes of Golf GTis and BMWs, but now bread-and-butter cars are also being taken.
Even their bread-and-butter cars like the Vectra/Cavalier are a cut above other cars in their class.
Solid, and stylish in a quiet way, it is the kind of bread-and-butter car G.M. has needed for decades, but had seemed incapable of pulling off.
Infiniti dealers were left with just one bread-and-butter car, the I30, which was really a dressed-up Nissan Maxima.
The Opel Omega is G.M.'s bread-and-butter car in Europe.
Other manufacturers were not content with modifying their 'bread-and-butter' cars.
Long may zero-VAT bread-and-butter cars continue.
It was, too, the precursor of what is now called the 900, the bread-and-butter car of Saab's lineup.