"hls" wrote in
> news:N_adnfqOvN5yAF7XnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com: >
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>>> Over the years, the inevitable subject of worst cars ever comes up,
>>> and the Vega is always at or near the top of the list. I've seen it
>>> a hundred times. I feel I should put in a good word for the little >>> car.
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>> That is, I believe, the car with the silicon/aluminum alloy
>> engine...That thing went out for most people very quickly.
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> Anybody ever read the Wiki page on the Vega? It's a pretty good read. >
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> Maybe I'm weird, but I always thought the Vega was a good-looking car. But
> then I liked the Plymouth Duster as well.
>
Even some dogs can extrude turds that have style.
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>> Now, believe it or not, I have seen Yugos still on the road. Even the
>> worst automaker allows a good one to slip out occasionally.
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> The Yugo was never sold in Canada, for some odd reason. Around the same
> time as the Yugo was being imported to the US, we DID get all manner of
> other, highly-unusual, Soviet-bloc machinery.
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> Off the top of my head:
> Lada 1600 (Russian Fiat 124 derivative)
> Lada Niva (small Russian SUV)
> Dacia (Romanian sedan; looks like a Renault 11, but dumpier)
> Skoda (Czech sedan; had rear engine and side-opening hood)
> ARO (Romanian 4WD; about the size of a Range Rover, but impossibly crude) >
> We also got the Hyundai Pony, a truly, truly, awful car.
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> The Lada 1600 actually drove pretty well. The new example I test-drove had
> an impressively precise shifter. The salesman kept yammering on about how
> the car's carburetor was "the closest thing you can get to a Weber" without
> actually having a Weber, as though that was the vehicle's only selling > point.
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> I never see ANY of the above anymore, EVER. And I drive a lot.
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The KGB quietly bought them all up (running or not) after the Berlin Wall fell. They wanted their "special electronic equipment" back.
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> Tegger
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