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>Is it the predecessor of ID-19, aka The Shark? One of craziest cars of all times.

Don't know this car.

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>The claim to originality of sir Issigonis was that the Mini was the first car ever with front wheel drive and transverse engine. Which it was not - Trabant came a couple of years before that.

and the Big 15 etc. were before that with the front-wheel drive

>But then it's not the first nor the last time that whatever doesn't originate within the Western world doesn't count.

Man you sound like one of the "Ostalgia" adherents, living comfortably in Virginia Beach :-)

Did you see my message to Alex, with a link to the "British Trabant", the Reliant 3-wheeler (they werew made of fibre-glass): #1028067

DAMN! How do you get the message no. to go "live"?

Also, when I was a teenager, our family had a Muscovite as a 2nd car. I think this was built from the "Polski-Fiat" stable. It was built like a tank, and had all mod-cons (I doubt the version for the home market was up to this spec.). Considering there were only c. 3 in my city, spares were a pain to get hold of.