This chapter uncovers minority positions that opposed the automobile’s impacts on public spaces, both those of the artistic elite and the artistic underclasses. There was no organized opposition to the car, but lamentations were common. Brazil’s literary elite, many of them members of Academy of Brazilian letter, found an unusual outlet for expressing their criticisms of the car, which tended to focus mostly on the car’s role in the loss of community and human decency. For non-elite expressions, we look to folk poetry and samba lyrics. Some examples of the first, mostly a pedestrian’s view, decried the street’s extreme violence by describing in the most grisly of terms. Samba songs criticized and lamented the construction of the new sixteen-lane Vargas Avenue in 1944 for paving over Praça Onze, destroying the traditional space of carnival for the city’s African residents. Lyricists accused and plead, but in the end could only lament Praça Onze’s loss. We also turn to the foreign gaze of Stefan Zweig, the German author who, fleeing the Nazi’s in Austria, hoped to make Brazil a home and who found in Rio’s street life particular consolations.