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Archae

(47,245 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:28 PM Feb 2025

Speaking 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.

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Mosby

(19,491 posts)
10. Its a 500-600 cc two stroke.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:42 PM
Feb 2025

Polaris makes a 600 cc two stroke that produces more than 150 horses.

That's quite the piece of shit motor.

bucolic_frolic

(55,044 posts)
2. Sounds like a real chariot
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:36 PM
Feb 2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

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.

marble falls

(71,872 posts)
8. The front end is well engineered, never a recall. There are fans. They don't look designed by an eight year old.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:01 PM
Feb 2025

chouchou

(3,128 posts)
4. I kinda' remember those cars (ah..things) They didn't look too bad but the poor things were strange.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:46 PM
Feb 2025

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.

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