>>>>Indeed. I drove a Trabant, and I can confirm that.
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>>>Is that the notorious East German car?
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>>Why the? Actually there was to brands of cars.
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>>Check http://tinyurl.com/y4gfj8w
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>>I loved mine. Not much noisier then my Ford, but much easier on maintenance.
>>The only reason that I found to buy a new one was that it was to small for the scuba equipment. (And now for all the kids)
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>>It was ok when it was designed (in parts ahead, it's modern now to have the car made from compound materials), but there was only minor change over decades.
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>>At least it would not speed up on itself.
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>>(^.~)
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>>Agnes
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>"The only reason that I found to buy a new one was that it was to small for the scuba equipment."
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>I knew they could be a bit leaky but I had no idea it was that bad. :-)

An east german delegation visits an japanees car manufaturer. The reach final testing. The japaneese catch a cat and lockes it into the car. The east germans asks: "Whats that about?" - "If the cat is alive tomorrow, the car is leaky."
A little later the japanesse counter visit east german. In short, they reach the same point with the cat. The answer: "If the car is still inside the car tomorrow, the car is not leaky."