Desscythe17 wrote
Good to laugh after this bad day for France

Rinspeed wrote
And here I was, thinking you lived in a palace in Versailles, with a pool of euro bills, meanwhile having us work as poor slaves in terrible working conditions :P

Rinspeed wrote
Damn, I just finished it. I will change it soon as it gets aproved.

ah i had understand the question. Made for a country is only for legal and official release

Rinspeed wrote
Some Indian clone of Spanish clone of Italian car that won car of the year 1966. Premier 118 NE.
It is not here yet, because I am gathering info about it.

what car?

Rinspeed wrote
Oh, I didnt think about this part.
Rinspeed wrote
Well few extra bucks is a good thing anytime. With the publicity we could have more users and more cars that are here.

And when I am talking about new cars, is it okay to add Made for Czech Rep. when it was intended and in fact there was only one car that was delivered (but not homologated) and it was illegal to drive it?

JFK wrote
yes but there will be a problem with the different lang. And you know, i don't do this site for the money of advertising and be riich ;-). It had publicity to pay the host.

I think it would be cool to add column: Did you know... where could be interesting facts about car. For instance this: Did you know that Yugo was blown off the Mackinac Bridge in 1988?
For Ford Crown Victoria: Did you know that it was the last car that used Panther platform?
For Mitsubishi Pajero: Did you know that Pajero name must be changed in spanish talking countries, because it had inappropriate meaning?
And I could go on and on and on.
I think it could be entertaining and interesting. Also, newest ones could be shown in same manner that completed cars are, so it would proably boost web visit numbers (due to interesting facts changing daily, or I hope so), and that could mean this site could make more money on advertising and that mean it was more profitable for Rinspeed, and that would mean...

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Urgh, a city girlish Niva with plastic bumpers. At least there is still classical one for sale.

Rys is translated as Lynx.

This was actually produced? Wow, I never heard about it and it looks interesting indeed.

Reddish base color and white bodykit looks kinda cheap, it will always remind me this:

There should be sooner or later wagon variant. Shame they dont make coupe anymore, but it is understandable.

Renault won't be engineering this for RHD markets, so the UK, Japan, Malaysia, and Australia won't be getting this unless they're imported as grey market models.

Front is very nice, but i don't like that stretched rear lights.

in CZ known as Laguna Grandtour

Desscythe17 wrote
That may be the problem. In czech language, V and W have exactly same pronounciation.
But as I thought about it more, I think I somehow get it now (and thanks to IGCD member krq9), because english W sounds similar to mine U, so it would sound more oddly.

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Desscythe17 wrote
They have diffrent front, but back is 100% identical.

That grille looks weird in the pictures for some reason. In real life I've seen it, and it didn't look that bad.

Despite being a concept car, you were allowed to enter it on the IAA. That was totally awesome!

JFK wrote
You might be overthinking it. The English translation should be exactly the way you hear it. So if you hear a v-sound instead of a w-sound, it should be Moskvitch. It might be similar to the centuries-old debate about "vodka" or "wodka".

This and webcarstory.com/voiture.php?id=22807 have the same rear picture.

fck wrote
If am I not mistaken, cyrilic alphabet doesnt have W at all. I must say though, Moscow would look oddly with normal V, but that is only habit. In fact, I dont see reason why they did W either.

For sure it looks odd when we are using W in city name and V in car name. It should be either all W, or all V.

[quote=JFK]Who came up with bright idea to translate it as Moskvich? It is derived from Moscow, so Moskwich would be more suitable.
(If it is not clear - it is not mistake done by anyone here, but someone who translated it in cold war)[/quote

Can't find why we're using 'w' in Moscow, but this is an exception. в is a 'v' in every cyrillic-english transcription standard. Why not 'Moskva'? Because in XII century this city was called "Moskov".

This car was used by my mom parents. Whenewer you wanted to go, it didnt start.

Who came up with bright idea to translate it as Moskvich? It is derived from Moscow, so Moskwich would be more suitable.
(If it is not clear - it is not mistake done by anyone here, but someone who translated it in cold war)

fck wrote
Oh, thanks for enlighting this for me. I get it now

JFK wrote

Indeed, but the agreement between FIAT and POLMOT from X.1971 provides that foreign currency expenditures for the purchase of machinery, equipment, parts and components of the car until they produce in Poland, will be repaid by FSM export. So some of pre-1979 126's were built in Poland as well as every 126 made after 8.6.1979.

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I can be wrong, but wasnt 126s that were made in Poland actually Polski Fiat 126p?