Self driving cars, mass transit and bicycles. What a brave new world.
Actually, I spent some time in Tokyo and they were already there ...
Posted on 11/07/2019 6:12:58 AM PST by oh8eleven
In fact, a Saturn was a luxury car compared to the Worst Car Ever award-winner. That distinction goes to the Trabant, a dreadful vehicle produced from 1957 to 1990 by the former East German [i.e. Communist] car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau.
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the 1957 Trabant had no tachometer, no turn signal, no seat belts or fuel gauge, no trunk liner, and used an oil/gas mix. The fact that these basic amenities were still missing when Taylor Swift was born [1989] is a bit more surprising.
East Germans considered themselves lucky just to get a Trabant. The average waiting period was 10 years.
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"And they drove with pride..."
Not really. First of all Skoda was Czech and rather decent for a budget car even by West European standard. Now Skoda is a jewel of Volkswagen group. I’d take their Superb sedan over Passat, Camry and anything from GM. VW Atlas is a reworked Skoda Kodiaq by the way.
Trabant was rather unique in how crappy it was. The closest Soviet counterpart was ZAZ-968 - the worst Soviet car ever but ZAZ was a Cadillac in comparison. Trabant wasn’t street-legal in USSR ad probably in Czechoslovakia too.
Yes but with one important difference. It will be electric and recharged with a hand crank or pedal powered generator.
Drive for 10 minutes, recharge for two hours.
Yep, Skoda is now the best of VW group.
Mid 70’s American Cars were challenging. No wonder Honda and Toyota got a foothold. While I while liked styling of the Javelin & AMX models from AMC, who can forget the turd called Gremelin?
My wife’s family had a Citation. They called it the pregnant paint can.
In all fairness, Saturn made some pretty good cars. In fact, I once read an article about a review of a new (at the time) vehicle that had no branding on it at all. Reviewers loved it and thought it was a BMW or Mercedes. Turned out to be a Saturn (one of their last models). After they badged it, they put it up for reviews again. No one liked it.
I learned to drive in one of those.
It wasn’t the Ford Pinto????
I remember that. Prior to the wall coming down, East Germany relaxed travel restrictions, Trabbies were stuck on the sides of many Autobahns. Lol.
My dad bought a 1981 which was the first model year. Got it used from the dealer with a warranted, three year I think. So they replaced a CV joint every 6 months and then my dad had to pay $300 every 6 months after that to get them replaced. GM never did fix the CV design flaw.
My dad was a decent mechanic but always picked bad cars. His dad was a Nash dealer so ...
China has all of the world’s crap cars that are currently being manufactured. There’s Skoda’s, Citroen’s, Peugeot’s and every other piece of junk in production.
Don’t forget the Chevette... Ew!
Quite a few girls in high school drove those. The late 80s.
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