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When it was contemporary, yes. But puttering through town in one of these now would be hilarious.
GTP Cool Wall: Trabant 601
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When it was contemporary, yes. But puttering through town in one of these now would be hilarious.
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Joey D
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There are quite a few cool Soviet era cars, but this isn't one of them. It was cheap transportation for the masses and that's not exactly a cool feature, but it's not seriously uncool because it did provide a large number of people with a car...and having a car is always cooler than not having a car, no matter how awful it is.
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Communism is cool, but I prefer Fascism. Made some iconic cars... Such as the Volkswagen and the GAZ Volga. Gets stuff done, you know.
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I wish I could call this cool because it's a weird little car, but...there's just nothing I like about it. It's a dorky little appliance of a car that I wouldn't be caught dead in. In fact, it almost looks like something twenty clowns would climb out of.
Seriously uncool.
However, I have seen the wagon version in person, and if this poll was about that one, I'd have to say cool for some bizarre reason (it struck me just right). It's not though, so seriously uncool.
Seriously uncool.
However, I have seen the wagon version in person, and if this poll was about that one, I'd have to say cool for some bizarre reason (it struck me just right). It's not though, so seriously uncool.
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I honestly love how horrible the car is - something about how much of a pile of junk it is appeals to me. It's a strange attraction that I can't explain...
It also helps when you drive by one every day and are reminded of how lucky we are as free people not under the communist regimes. (No, seriously, I do drive by one every day - one garage has one parked outside of it.)
Sub-Zero, despite the Communist connections I cannot just help myself.
It also helps when you drive by one every day and are reminded of how lucky we are as free people not under the communist regimes. (No, seriously, I do drive by one every day - one garage has one parked outside of it.)
Sub-Zero, despite the Communist connections I cannot just help myself.
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Some cars are so pathetic that they're actually cool.
But this car is too pathetic for that honor.
Seriously uncool. I could go faster in it if I took the 26 HP engine and the floor out and drive it Flintstone style. And cotton is actually sorta cool but I don't want a car made out of it.
But this car is too pathetic for that honor.
Seriously uncool. I could go faster in it if I took the 26 HP engine and the floor out and drive it Flintstone style. And cotton is actually sorta cool but I don't want a car made out of it.
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Seriously uncool. Two stroke motor, and if you'd hit anything at any kind of speed, you'd die or get seriously injured because this car is about as safe as cardboard box to which it is closely related to.
ShobThaBob
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How cool could it possibly be if nobody has ever heard of it?
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You're so negative when you say "Soviet built".
Don't worry about radiation - East Germany was very far from Chernobyl.
In Soviet Union, Trabbies used to be an extreme rarity (they were exported to most socialistic countries - Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, but the USSR almost didn't import them). However, I recall seeing one in my area a couple of years ago, it was decrepit (not rusty - this body material doesn't rust LOL) and looked abandoned (but it had a "for sale" lettering on the windshield). Now it is probably taken away by someone.
P.S. I vote "cool", but not because it's made by communists. I just love old, small underpowered cars, I don't know why. However, Trabant is definetly not the best of them, there were much better ones (like Mini, Fiat 500, and the legendary West-German VW Kaefer, for sure).
LOLWUT?
Volga is a Soviet car developed in 1956, it has nothing to do with Fascists or Nazis. You're confusing something.It may be uncool, but remember though - some things made by communists can't be doubted they are cool.
The AK rifle, for example.
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The AK rifle, for example.
A device designed solely for killing is cool? The AK47 is no sports rifle. Fantastic piece of engineering, but using it as an example of a cool output of communism... not so great.
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You are aware that you just said that no one has ever heard of a car that just about everyone in Europe over the age of 40 could instantly visualise upon hearing the name, as well as a rather large number below that age. It is as much an icon of the west/east German divide as the Berlin Wall, in part due to the Wall's fall, as they were scattered literally everywhere in Western Europe in the weeks and months following, with their owners literally driving as far as they could before it either broke down or they couldn't afford to buy more fuel...
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I went to an "Art Car Parade" full of lunatic cars in manchester a few years back and someone had a Trabant and they confessed it was "worst car ever made" to me. But they turned it into an eco-friendly car, putting model cows on the front of the car and pedal power in it did it a world of good. Sub Zero 👍
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Meh.
I do like this (it's a tiny underpowered Soviet box
). But when I look at it I see a little Ford Anglia.
I do like this (it's a tiny underpowered Soviet box
). But when I look at it I see a little Ford Anglia.
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ClarkWas probably faster as a pedal car
It was. It actually worked
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LOLWUT?
I know, I was talking about both.
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Cano
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Yeah but I'm talking obscure as in not everyone know what it is. I mean anyone recognizes a Beetle, a Mini or a 57 Bel Air and knows a bit of stuff about them, but not everyone recognices one of these things, much less knows wth they represent or where do they come from.
