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on: 08-07-2005
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You know, in Cuba, one of the few new cars avilable in the Lada, which would explain why they drive 50-year old American beaters. Cubans care about reliability too. |
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8-07-2005 @ 12:10:54 PM |
| Posted By : blackcat77 |
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I don't know if I'd call those cars beaters even if they are old. Beaters are cars you abuse -- those are cars that are loved.
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8-07-2005 @ 11:41:09 PM |
| Posted By : 427 Vette |
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I'm guessing because they share the same technology as those American cars from the '50s.
:D
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9-29-2005 @ 02:53:02 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Most soviet era consumer goods were so shoddy that nobody in the free market wanted them. They couldn't compete with consumer goods from capitalist countries, therefore, the only places things like soviet made durable consumer goods like cars and refridgerators ever turned up were in other soviet sattellite states because those were the only places they had a market.
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10-19-2005 @ 03:18:07 PM |
| Posted By : 89Rettagt |
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#11, um not FWD. and 50's cars didnt have bakealite internals. any car from the 50s>lada.
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10-19-2005 @ 03:22:27 PM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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#12, Oh? First Ladas were Fiat 124s. RWD, four-door, 1500cc, 75hp, light and durable.
And that thing in the lower left corner is a Renault 19.
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10-19-2005 @ 03:25:32 PM |
| Posted By : 89Rettagt |
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#13, i never said they all were. adam's comment sounded to me like the corvette fit the category mentioned in #6. and it was mechanically fuel injected not electronically.
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10-19-2005 @ 03:31:33 PM |
| Posted By : 89Rettagt |
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#15, it wasn't clear enough to me i guess. i mean i figured you knew, but i just said it, for something. i dont know.
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10-19-2005 @ 03:31:33 PM |
| Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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North Americans need to realise that older Ladas (don't know about the current ones) were immortal. You couldn't kill the car, it kept on going regardless of damage or lack of TLC. After all, they were made to drive in the desert, in arctic tundra and in lakes of mud. In Russia, roads are bad. Very bad. On the south, you have +50 degrees. In teh north you have -50 degrees. Millions of Ladas proved then can take everything you throw at them. Of course, they are shitty cars... but you have to respect them for their toughness.
Gniotsya nie lamiotsya - it brakes but is never broken ("small things fall apart but the car keeps on going").
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12-08-2007 @ 12:53:05 AM |
| Posted By : ricerocketboy |
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Adambomb,
you do know that most of the cars in Cuba do not have original engines right? Most of the "classic American Iron" in Cuba is powered by various diesel engines.
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12-15-2007 @ 10:30:25 PM |
| Posted By : Adambomb |
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#18, Yeah.
Still doesn't change the fact that Ladas suck :P
[Edited by Adambomb on 12-15-2007 @ 10:31:23 PM]
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