You US and Canadian guys don’t know what it may have been like over here then.
Will never be able to even figure out. Neither shall I, presumably.
The Yugos, Trabies usw were machines that allowed (no so many) people to get a
share in polluting the planet. Of course, they fared less successfully than the
US majors, but they DID pollute A LOT too :-) His majesty the donald should
recommend their resurrection methinks.
Amities
Philippe
Le 16 janv. 2020 à 15:41, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
Ah yes. The Yugo ... a car almost as good as the Lada. Both were based on
old, licensed, Fiat designs, but the Lada had the advantage of the superb [?]
Russian craftsmanship. :-\
Bad as they were, they were both better cars than the Trabi.
BTW: "Crappy Tire" (as the locals know it) is a huge, and very successful
chain, in Canada.
And, yes, we've heard the sad story of the poor lady in her Yugo on the
Mackinac Bridge, even this far north and this far west.
The Lada factory is, these days, owned by Renault and there is talk of
returning the brand to Canada in the near future. From looking at a Lada
Samara 1500 (vintage unknown) I found in Serbia, they still have a long way
to go.
http://furnfeather.ca/look/samara.html
David.
David,------
I loved your Canadian Tire Yugo jokes. The last time I heard of that
store on line was several years ago .
I believe on LUG. Some member said that a certain camera, can't recall
which make, was worth so much in Canadian Tire dollars. When the Yugo
came to N. America in the 80's there was one on display at The Cleveland
Ohio Spring Auto Show. The doors were locked so nobody could sit in it.
The interior was quite
Spartan. Minimal gauges etc. On the safety side, you may recall that a
lady by the name of Leslie Ann Pluhar was blown off the Mackinac bridge
in her 1989 Yugo and fell to her death 170 feet below (51.816
meters) and sunk to the bottom. A real tragedy.
Best.
Rich Palmer
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