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    And you had to wait ten years to get one.

    In .ml terms that means you got 40 years of enjoyment out of your communist car!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Plus going 0-60 in five minutes gave you more time to bask in awe at all the slate gray brutalist architecture!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    https://fee.org/articles/the-worst-car-ever-a-brief-history-of-the-trabant/

    It wasn’t that the Trabant had a weak two-stroke engine, though it did. It wasn’t just that the Trabant was made with recycled waste (usually from wool or cotton), though it was. It wasn’t that Trabants topped out at 60 mph and “smoked like an Iraqi oil fire,” as one writer put it.

    No, the Trabant’s biggest problem was that it never really improved.

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