a car at random from the country of your choice
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if you had the choice of a car chosen at random from any country, from any decade, which country and decade would you pick?
Mikeylad's Contrived Rule No.1:
mass-production cars have a correspondingly higher chance of selection than low production cars. (e.g. picking italy and 1960's in the hope of landing a miura is as optimistic as putting the kettle on before attempting sex with a preying-mantis)
MCR2:
Country of origin includes those cars built in a country by a foreign company. So picking the UK risks landing a peugeot or ford etc. sorry.
so, pick the country and decade, and TELL US WHY!!!
My answer: Germany & 1970's or USA & 1950's
>>> Edited by mikeylad on Tuesday 8th April 19:21
Mikeylad's Contrived Rule No.1:
mass-production cars have a correspondingly higher chance of selection than low production cars. (e.g. picking italy and 1960's in the hope of landing a miura is as optimistic as putting the kettle on before attempting sex with a preying-mantis)
MCR2:
Country of origin includes those cars built in a country by a foreign company. So picking the UK risks landing a peugeot or ford etc. sorry.
so, pick the country and decade, and TELL US WHY!!!
My answer: Germany & 1970's or USA & 1950's
>>> Edited by mikeylad on Tuesday 8th April 19:21
mikeylad said:
alan_driver said: A trabant/travant (whichever)
from russia, made from cardboard, and designed to be a bike
eh?
Trabant, the russians made it to solve their transport problem, they designed it as a bike because it was more economical, but it turned out as a car. They were very slow, but FREE. A quick google search and you will find out what im talking abut - and when you do, can you let me know.
alan_driver said:
mikeylad said:
alan_driver said: A trabant/travant (whichever)
from russia, made from cardboard, and designed to be a bike
eh?
Trabant.... They were very slow, but FREE. A quick google search and you will find out what im talking abut - and when you do, can you let me know.
I understood the Trabant was paid for in installments and delivered after the last instalment had been paid i.e. 36 months @ 3.99DM and the car was yous? Unlike our HP system.
I once had a ride in a Trabant - estate - what an experience!
alan_driver said: A trabant/travant (whichever)
from russia, made from cardboard, and designed to be a bike
OI! Alan, they're best German craftsmanship!!!! Designed and glued together in Zwickau by Volkseigner Betrieb Sachsenring!
IIRC they costed 7,000 Mark (east) new, and you had to wait 7...12 years to receive one. Money was no object in the east zone, because people had enough, but couldn't buy anything from it but scratchy red bog rolls (to turn last arse red
). 
People liked the Wartburg more than the Trabant, but they were even harder to get, except when one was a functionary.
apache said: Malaysia 2000, they only make TVR's (he said hopefully)
>> Edited by apache on Tuesday 8th April 19:42
Author/s: Randolph Ramsay
Issue: July 19, 1999
In Australia, Malaysia's Proton is taking on foreign car producers such as Hyundai and Daewoo. RANDOLPH RAMSAY reports on the tough road ahead
When Malaysia's national car maker Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional, or Proton, first entered the Australian market in 1995, its executives were justifiably upbeat
Yeah its a 1999 report but if they wher looking to go into oz dont think that was short team.
Sorry Pete
keep up mate. BB
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