• huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    trabant’s east german, not soviet… also, it was dogshit. but durable (in its own way) and cheap to run/repair, back when there were a lot of them.

    we had two of them when i was little.

    heeeeeeey! that’s a pic of a 4-stroke trabant, i think. fake trabant! FAKE 90s TRABANT! everyone, look, they’re trying to fool us with this fake trabant!

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    2 months ago

    My college buddy drove a Yugo. His wife stripped reverse and because one was working ft so the other could attend college pt, it stayed broke until they both finished college. We all loved that car 150 US round trip miles per week, $15 (this was pre G.W. Bush).

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    2 months ago

    I drove in both for quite some time and Yugo, while clunky, was a far better and modern car than Trabant which was pretty old by then. Trabant was also a pretty bad smelly two stroke, which sounded hilariously ridiculous.