True, I guess that's mainly because it had to share parts with the 311 model. Still it's by far the most elegant car made in East Germany. For a really odd looking car, check out the Melkus ;) It actually looks great here in the photos, but in reality some things look very odd (also because it was a bit like a Frankenstein car, using parts from regular East German cars): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkus_RS_1000
It looks like a Ferrari Dino 206/246 that's been through some photoshop warping. And it has 68bhp. Heh.
That's a somewhat common joke in East Germany as well (at least it was in the 80s and 90s). Typically it is a buyer from West Germany though.
Toilet paper in the eastern block always was 2 layer, cause one copy of every shit goes to moscow.
Results for international tonsil-removal competition: USA 2 minutes, France 1 minute, East Germany 10 hours. (You see in East Germany you can’t open your mouth so they had to go in the other way)
A local hairdresser owns one and drives it 300m to her studio at the same time every morning. Easy to find a parking space with and oddly charming looks, but the thing sounds like a rolling tin can with a stone in it and smells like death.
I saw a Trabant recently at the local post warehouse location during the lockdown when government nationwide decided to refuse people from using public transport, so anything that at any point in history was roadworthy got back on the road again.
The thing had Soviet plates, was loud as hell, and stalled a few times while I was following them on my way back home. But I guess even after all these years it still manages to deliver on transportation of the owner.
Some examples of positive behavior of politicians will be apreciated.
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of good coming out of politics, all across the world. The evil politician stereotype is neither new nor completely accurate. I'd assume that much depends on the system in which the politician in question operates. Some systems easily lend themselves to abuse and corruption, and others are slightly more robust. In a word, it's complicated :)
There is no incentive for a politician to make good decisions for her constituents. The politician is incentivized to make decisions good for himself (of course), his party or for his reelection.
Re-election decisions are usually populist. Sometimes they are good for the people but most often they are harmful on the long run.
Seldom you get a politician like Reagan or Thatcher who made unpopular decisions great for their country but they were so rare that they are statistically insignificant.
I lived in Germany when the wall came down. For a while after this, it was common to see Trabant debris on the side of the autobahn. The Trabant had a very low top speed, and the East German drivers weren't aware of the fast-lane etiquette on the autobahn, so they would get rear-ended quite often. "According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, around 34,500 Trabants were registered in Germany at the beginning o…
Heh, for a similar Soviet car, Zaporozhets, the joke was that you can drive it on the autobahn as long as you first roll it down a big mountain, to get to the requisite speed.
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of good coming out of politics, all across the world. The evil politician stereotype is neither new nor completely accurate. I'd assume that much depends on the system in which the politician in question operates. Some systems easily lend themselves to abuse and corruption, and others are slightly more robust. In a word, it's complicated :)
There is no incentive for a politician to make good decisions for her constituents. The politician is incentivized to make decisions good for himself (of course), his party or for his reelection. Re-election decisions are usually populist. Sometimes they are good for the people but most often they are harmful on the long run. Seldom you get a politician like Reagan or Thatcher who made unpopular decisions great for t…
Statistically insignificant, perhaps - but usually the good decisions taken by a politician in power outlive them, and have long term benefits - at least, until they are undone by a future potentate, representative of the "bad politician" set.