Periodical Commie Car Thread
Keeping the dream alive!
In this thread discuss:
Basically anything related to the autovehicle industry or culture of the former eastern-bloc countries.
Periodical reminder that:
>Fiat is gommunist
>Dacia is comrade version of Renault
>East Germany is best Germany
>Everything is the fault of USSR
This edition: Motivational Edition
(Waiting for summer so I can attempt to buy a P50)
Disscuss comrades.
>live in eastern Germany
>milder weekends arriving around this time of the year
>already seen a couple of old bloc models on recreational drives
>dat two stroke sound and smell
>cant help thinking about the worry free mentality of owning a car where you can count the parts in your head
>cant help thinking about the worry free mentality of owning a car where you can count the parts in your head
Trabbies are probably apocalypse-proof vehicles, just prove me wrong.
>no skynet/hackers to get into your car
>can't stop it via EMP like newer cars
>easy to fix in case it breaks down
>all you need is some petrol and oil mixture and hit the road
Yeah, but I'd like something ... let's call it less decisively proletarian.
The 2-door sedan variant is the best looking one really.
Shame they are rare as fuck,
My roomate has a Trabant on the road here in California, super good condition. If anyone is interested in seeing it. Gets a lot of attention around here.
what's a good price for a Lada 21XX in the US?
bump
>You can buy this new
>cold water cold water cold water
r8
bump
Thinking about it, would it really be worth making an engine swap?
At one point, Lada briefly experimented with rotary engines, and they were either pulled from Mazdas, or cloned from them. I wonder how different things would've been if the Soviets experiment with the rotary engine as well as the Japanese. Maybe the simpler manufacturing process and ease of repairing would've proven popular in the eastern bloc, and smaller cars like the Zastavas would have rotaries. Excessive fuel and oil consumption may have been an issue, even in an oil rich country like Russia.
straight from wiki:
A meeting was held at the Soviet Defence Ministry to devise a motorcycle that would be suitable for the Red Army. The Red Army wanted to modernize its equipment after the suspension of the Winter War with Finland. The motorcycles used up to that point had not been satisfactory; their technology was outdated and the manufacturing quality was inadequate to endure the harsh Russian climate and terrain.
The motorcycle was "modeled after a late-1930s BMW sidecar bike called the R71, which Nazi Germany provided to the Soviet Union after the countries signed a nonaggression pact in 1939."[3]
According to official accounts, after lengthy discussion, the BMW R71 motorcycle was found to closely match the Red Army's requirements. Five units were covertly purchased through Swedish intermediaries. Soviet engineers in Moscow dismantled the five BMWs, reverse engineered the BMW design in every detail and made molds and dies to produce engines and gearboxes in Moscow. Early in 1941, the prototypes of the Dnepr M-72 motorcycle were shown to Stalin who made the decision to enter mass production. One of the original BMWs purchased through the Swedish intermediaries survives, and is displayed in the IMZ-Ural factory museum.
The East must have smelt fucking amazing wit hall that 2 stroke.
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fiat twin air might be ok
and would work with the short wheel base and low weight
>worth it
if your going to think of it like that do not even bother with commi car in the first place
>Excessive fuel and oil consumption
no worse than any of the two stoke engines in use by soviet at the time
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No
keep it standard.
Otherwise what is the fucking point of owning a trabbi?
>no worse than any of the two stoke engines in use by soviet at the time
Huh, so basically the rotary would've been a step up. It kept the same disadvantages, it also kept the same advantages (fewer moving parts), but output significantly more power.
it gets even more fun
wikicars.org
at least using a rotary gets rid of ring flutter
and some vibration from reciprocation
but yea the only other engine types are fiat modified for torque and cold starting
and a few v8s for the party cars
soften the edges of the trabi
also the quality is way to high
Damn shame, really. I think the rotary was meant to powered small, light cars. The RXes are way too big and heavy, if anything the Miata should've been the rotary car due to how small and light it was.
rotor might be cool on motorbikes
en.wikipedia.org