You must have read some novels about colonial Havana. Or maybe you lived that era... Hahaha... Well back then there were only horse-drawn carriages.
Later on, the first cars started to come in, the so-called fotingos.
The propaganda deployed by the Ford Motor Company to promote the sales of such a car, what is known today as a "marketing campaign", was based on a central slogan or motto: "Foot in and go" ?
https://cubarte.cult.cu/periodico-cubarte/el-origen-de-la-palabra-fotingo/