Different Fiats, but both are more-or-less Fiats. In each case they bought
the rights and assembly line tooling for long departed models. Of course,
the good aspects of Fiats (and they really do have many) were lost in the
translation. I lived in Hungary for six months in 1992, so I got to drive a
wide variety of Eastern European iron. I even owned a mid-seventies Trabant
for the last four months. My preference for these cars is, in order,
rear-engined Skodas (Czech - great fun to drive - would love to have one
here), Ladas (Russian - kind of agricultural but OK), Dachia, (Romanian
Renault 14?, appalling build quality but not a bad drive), Zastava (Yugo -
basically awful little cars, woefully underpowered), (Wartburgs, East
German - the best that can be said is at least they are made of metal) and
last and definitely least Trabants (East German - plastic covered paper
piece of Sh*t)! Oh, almost forgot - Polski-Fiat - a Fiat 500 made in Poland
- two cylinders, MUCH waiting - barely faster than a three year old on a
tricycle, but otherwise kind of fun.
Kevin Rhodes
Portland Maine
Freddy the Spit
At 10:33 4/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Wasn't the Yugo the "commie" attempt at copying a Fiat, or am I thinking of
>the Russian-made Lada?
>
>Reid
>'79 Spitfire
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Laura G. [mailto:savercool@email.msn.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 7:18 PM
>To: Dianne & Ree G.; Spitfire List
>Subject: Re: Screwball with Spitfire on EBay
>
>
>>... I'd have about $7000 - enough to pick up a fully
>>restored Yugo!
>
>ROTFLMAO
>
>The idea!<VBG>
>
>But seriously...when I lived in Italy, a Yugo was considered a good
>economical car-low gas consumption with low insurance rate-at times harder
>to find on the market than , say an Alfa Duetto!
>
>Laura G. and Nigel
>
>
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