Desscythe17 wrote
Youre welcome

front pic is finished

Desscythe17 wrote
Yeah, I dont anything better to do in the evening anyways

Desscythe17 wrote
Aside from not very well done rear fender arch that I pretty much made from scratch, it is not a bad shot for 45 minute job - picture

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Desscythe17 wrote
Will you say it is a decent pic if I can get the rust retouched? I will try and I post my result.

Gamer wrote
You cant really expect a safety from older city cars. Trabi doesnt look that bad, but it was most likely crashed in lower speed.

Desscythe17 wrote
I suppose we should edit cars in production to 201_-2016?

Interesting fact - this car is so heavy on front, so you can deattach one wheel from back and it will still ride absolutely fine, also thanks to the hydropneumatic suspension.

fck wrote
Thank you for your contribution
I never hear about those suicide door feature, guess your GF has experience that she will never forget about
The reverse Maluch is awesome, I wish I could see this event in person
Did you see the movie "Trabantem až na konec světa/Trabant vs. South America"? It was a czech expedition, but they invited two Polish guys with Maluch. Neat commercial for first two points of your advantage list
If you didnt see it, I recommend it - trailer

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sajmon14 wrote
I would like to hear your opinion (EDIT: and of course fck´s too) on Maluch, since it is a big part of Polish car heritage. I personally like that car, much like every car from communism, but unfortunately I havent ridden one.

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Desscythe17 wrote
Yes, and not only design. Car with less gadgets is far more reliable, since there are less thing that can possibly break down - that is why I like original Dacia Logan/Logan MCV.

Desscythe17 wrote
Both. I dont like SUV-Coupe crossover BMW X6 (seriously who need that - I cant imagine anyone to wake up in the morning and say: I want car that have little headroom in back and cant go up a hill with wet grass, yet it have high ground clearance and it weigh awfully lot), but I also dont like the modern styling of the cars.

For example Peugeots used to be normal cars, not too nice but not awful either. Then came the 206 with her mouth and it was a cute car. And somebody said, if it works for 206, lets put it on every Peugeot and make it bigger. 107 (the mouth is that big that the car is capable of eating itself and poor engine need a blanket for night), 207, 307, 407 - all those had horrible design, and back then I used to say that it is not getting any worse than that. Peugeot 508 came and I was proven wrong. It is a hideous car with awful front and terrible rear.

Nissan Murano wasnt good looking car at the start, but after facelift they managed to get it just enough disgusting that it is a definition of badly designed car. Bugatti Veyron looks like a obese man in his 50s, when he finally got enough money to buy cabriolet, and he thinks that he looks cool. 2nd gen Fiat Panda is not a nice looking car, but it is okay. And that is the reason why 3rd gen got servo motor from Cadillac´s windscreen wipers as a engine and a obese look. Like it is trying to fit in same bodyshell as 2nd panda, but it ate too many cookies on Christmas holidays. Opel/Vauxhall Corsa - the one from 90s got pretty cute design, but they make it worse over the next generations. And I could go on and on and on. I left Škoda cars on purpose, since they are very common here, so it would be not very objective.

If car design (in general) gets worse and worse with each year, I am quite curious what cars would look like in 10 years. And what I will eventually use as a car when all cars will look like this, Peugeot 508, Nissan Juke, Nissan Murano, Citroën DS5 or worse.

Gamer wrote
Doh.

Gamer wrote
I dont know, if you are living close to D/CZ borders, but I could eventually buy it and drive it to your town. There are not very common, but it isnt something ultra rare either, so in used cars dealership there are few.

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Gamer wrote
Do you know the color you would like to have?

fck wrote
In czech laws the beacon must be placed on top of the vehicle and it must be visible from all sides + some other laws that new Skoda police cars violate.
fck wrote
Do you want to know the explanation why in CZ are not Blue/red beacon.

Because someone could think that it is a breaking light... Great explanation.
And the president of CZ police is lying about the fact that it is a first time in europe that our police cars doesnt have beacons on top.

Desscythe17 wrote
I guess it is not against the law in your country, but here it is, just like red/blue beacons on emengercy vehicles.

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fck wrote
Unmarked for measuring speed. Passats used small beacon on top, these will not.

Desscythe17 wrote
The police lights in mask, windows - simply everything but the roof. Guess I didnt explained it too well

Amount of classic off-roads still in production lost one member.
R.I.P.

World Racing

Desscythe17 wrote
True that

Friend of my dad was doing rallyes in these back in 1990s, just after he stoped to race in Dakar with LIAZ trucks. I have somewhere stashed a magazine with interview of him.

If I am not mistaken, this was the personal car of Enzo Ferrari
I got it from some Lexus forum, where everybody was ranting about Volvo 240 that Ikea founder drives, and they were saying that if he would be concerned about his safety, he wouldnt drive 1993 Volvo wagon.
I cant imagine any safer car than square Volvo

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Apart from high-ranked party members, KGB used them, before they got the new Ladas with powerful wankel engines to get more undercover look.
The only time when you could ride in this car via normal means was getting married - you could order this car.

Used by Gustáv Husák, president of Czechoslovakia.
EDIT: I just got an idea. If famous person has/had it (and WCS member?), there would be an option to add an owner, and you could simply click the person name (just like car shows), on that page it would be short description who is it (actor, singer, politician, owner of well known company, mobster, killer, dunno who else..) and a list of cars. And maybe that could be even splitted for actors - personal cars and cars that were used when they were acting (I am sure that Bryan Cranston doesnt use Pontiac Aztek, but as a Walter White he does). If the owner would be a member and you would click his name, it would redirect to his profile (under the text about him/her would be the list also)

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Umm, this was available in CS? Thats interesting, I dont know who would use that kind of vehicle...

Desscythe17 wrote
Oh, I thought you are doing JP cars for europe too, silly me Corona was though a JP-spec car, since it was directly exchanged with Japan goverment for a Zetor tractors.
EDIT: brainfart occured - Japan: left-hand drive, CZ: right-hand drive, so its not a JP-spec...

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Desscythe17, if you are really up for occasionally edit Made for Czech Republic as a , you can do it without any problem on any pre 1989 US or non-US spec. Only japan cars I know that were sold before 1989 was that 1970s Honda Civic I already edited and 1968 Toyota Corona, which is not listed (guess due to big amount of engine/transmission combination).