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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSpeaking of worst cars...
I just found my "Car and Driver" December 1990 magazine, in that issue they gave a road test to an East German "Trabant."
(You can start laughing now.)
26 HP
Plastic body made out of resin and cotton wastes
Top speed 66 mph
This was a car "designed by committee" a Communist committee.
Mosby
(19,491 posts)It's a motorcycle engine, a small one.
Archae
(47,245 posts)Mosby
(19,491 posts)Polaris makes a 600 cc two stroke that produces more than 150 horses.
That's quite the piece of shit motor.
bucolic_frolic
(55,823 posts)But, honorable mention to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiguli_(car_brand)
Both evidence of economies where insufficient innovation, scientific talent, manufacturing expertise, capital, exist. Expect the same from our hollowed out US Trumpian government.
SheltieLover
(81,718 posts)FSogol
(47,665 posts)Progressive dog
(7,612 posts)marble falls
(72,531 posts)chouchou
(3,307 posts)No fuel pump. No gas gauge..you had to carry a stick or a piece of curtain rod to see how much fuel you had. The gas tank was above the engine, so the fuel would leak down to the carb. The gears were 3 things ..hard to change...and shitty and shitty. It could get up to 60 mph under a minute. The interior was like a cheap dime-store chair.
rurallib
(64,833 posts)'stick the tank'
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