Gripped and sorted, comrade.
Mar. 6th, 2003 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezIt's easy to take the piss out of (ex) Soviet Bloc cars. Clarkson, for instance, has made a series of lucrative videos doing little else. It's also a bit off when you consider such splendid motoring achievements as the Allegro (horrible, slow, rusted, had a unique smell of toasted top-end), Allegro2 (much the same), Marina (based on the Morris Minor, it says here), Ital (A Marina with a hat on. Did they really think we wouldn't twig?) and a host of other horrible cars.
Not that the US is/was any better. You'd think, wouldn't you, that if US cars were any use, they'd be selling like, I dunno, Toyotas. Or even bloody Saabs. But no, the only things you ever see over here are the odd Neon, the quite stunningly ugly new Cherokee (though the old square ones were ok. Pity about the woodex trim. Fake plastic trees indeed.) or the odd sad bastard with a late-model Camaro. Though I have to admit that the sound of a lumpy and poorly-silenced V8 does terrible things to me. Actually, just show me a '69 Charger. (or Challenger, 'Cuda, GTX...)
Bugger. I'm off to watch Bullitt again.
So anyway. This site being full of mad, less mad, horrible and severely not horrible (Tatras!) vehicles is a Fine Thing. Especially the 4wd GAZ saloon, various ZAZes and quite odd UAZ off-roaders.
Not that the US is/was any better. You'd think, wouldn't you, that if US cars were any use, they'd be selling like, I dunno, Toyotas. Or even bloody Saabs. But no, the only things you ever see over here are the odd Neon, the quite stunningly ugly new Cherokee (though the old square ones were ok. Pity about the woodex trim. Fake plastic trees indeed.) or the odd sad bastard with a late-model Camaro. Though I have to admit that the sound of a lumpy and poorly-silenced V8 does terrible things to me. Actually, just show me a '69 Charger. (or Challenger, 'Cuda, GTX...)
Bugger. I'm off to watch Bullitt again.
So anyway. This site being full of mad, less mad, horrible and severely not horrible (Tatras!) vehicles is a Fine Thing. Especially the 4wd GAZ saloon, various ZAZes and quite odd UAZ off-roaders.
