Driving, Cars, Motorways and Autobahns

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There are still many unrestricted sections of Autobahn. Collisions between high speed and slower moving vehicles are still a common occurrence. He probably wasn’t pulling your leg.

I drove from the UK to Austria a number of times when we lived out there. The German Autobahns were quite lairy. You’d check behind before overtaking, pull out, and an Audi RS/Porsche/AMG Mercedes/BMW M would suddenly appear out of nowhere in the rear view mirror.

In Austria, the Autobahns are limited to 130/140 km/h and there are quite a few speed cameras around, so the driving tends to be fairly sensible.

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Yes this happened many times to me over the few years I made that journey.
It was way more scary than almost hitting a Trabant myself.
So glad it wasn’t just me that got a Little bit scared then :scream:

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I probably have seen them during my trips to Europe but I was so busy looking at the scenery over there that I didn’t pay much attention to the cars unless they were very unusual or exotic looking. The Skoda doesn’t quite qualify. :laughing:

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Sorry, I don’t understand either of these sentences. :confused:

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Ged is saying that anyone over 50 who is interested in cars wouldn’t need to Google the Trabant because they’d already know what it is. Normal people, not so much.

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Thanks for the translation. :laughing:

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Which is, of course, regional. Trust me, US car guys over 50 would/do have no idea what a Trabant is.

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And that can only be a good thing :joy_cat:

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Some US guys know :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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He is owned by the world… And married to a Welsh girl

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I’m over 50 and a U.S.“car guy”. Grew up in Detroit, dad worked for GM for 35 years. My first car in 1981 was a '68 Camaro that had more engines than sets of tires… several stereo incarnations too.

No googling so I can only guess the car you all are talking about is the car seen in U2 video for One. Is that correct? I seem to remember something about the fall of the Berlin Wall and these crappy cars that came from East Germany and could not get out of their own way. I also remember stories of people driving them to the west and just abandoning them.

If I’m correct that is the car, there is no way I would have ever known it by name.

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You brought back a memory there and I think yes it probably was that car. I had completely forgotten about that :+1:

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Hmm, all Communists cars look the same?

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I had the misfortune to own both a Skoda ( pre VW takeover) and a Yugo while I was an impoverished student.

Hard to decide which was worse although both might have been slightly better than the pos Allegro that followed🤣
There’s a good reason BMC sent belly up!

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Yugos were basically repurposed Fiats, or was that the Lada?
Buggered if I remember but God awful whichever

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Nope, from Yugoslavia. Hence, Yugo. :sunglasses:

But Fiats were nothing to home about either.

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Err…as I said repurposed Fiats…lol.
They even used the old body panel moulds when they were worn out from the Fiat factory.

I believe both Yugo and Lada licensed these abominations from Fiat…if my memory serves and I can’t be a$$ed to Google it😁

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Yeah, designed by Fiat and manufactured in Yugoslavia.

Enuf blame to go around. :grin:

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True, say no more guv’nor :wink: