Prediodical Commie Car Thread
Discuss all sorts of cars produced and/or used in the eastern block countries.
This edition: Polski Fiat edition
>Fiat is a commie car no matter what else you say
>Dacias are commie Renaults
>West Germany is a fake Germany
>Permanent guests: Trabant Family
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What's with the recent increase in soviet car posting on Veeky Forums recently?
Cant say i mind because
>soviet satellite
But it still seems odd to me
commie cars are magical
They were also designed very conservatively and car-like, unlike the western autism spaceships with random cancer bulges
wartburgs are so communist
they literally made the stereotypical car, it's a sedan, everything is square aside from the wheels
it's the commieblock as a car, a cheap version of the capitalistblock square car like a BX or something
They're cars for the people, not cars for the corporations. You were able to (and had to because all services and parts were in short supply) repair these with basic tools.
Sure, they didn't do a lot, like providing comfort or speed, but in turn whatever they did was done really well, like being simple and rugged and being able to take a beating.
Americans would be scared to go down this road in any of their classics apart from Jeeps.
SÖMMERDA MENTIONED
(I live less than an hour away.)
Part of what makes the eastern cars interesting is that they were designed with completely different ideas, means and priorities in mind. It results in a familiar objects being quite different from the now more widespread norm of what it should be.
In a sense, it's a bit similar to the interest some had for japanese cars when they first became available and were completely different to european and american cars of the same time ; or when the pretty conservative british market discovered BMW in the 70s.
Haha, newer versions maybe, from 353 upwards from what I'm aware.
Older models used to look a little bit more luxurious though and from what I heard Wartburgs weren't initially aimed to the people (in the EverybodyEqual™ system), but upper classes.
From what I remember they were also conceived as cars for party officials so they don't have to import GAZ Volgas anymore.
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Such a good looking car, sadly rather rare. Also Skoda 450 a qt.