Ugly is as ugly drives

[plonq]

I have grumped before about how the auto manufacturers are pissing all over each other in their efforts to build the ugliest car on the road.  When you look around you at some of the abominations on wheels, it's easy to forget sometimes that for some car companies, ugly came honestly.  It is too bad that Trabant has not been in business since 1991, because nothing on the road today could touch it for its shameless in-your-face homely.



It had a plastic, cotton-reinforced body for Christsake!  Suck on that, Aztec.

Does it make me a bad person to want one of these environmental nightmares on rubber?

Comments

[farlo.livejournal.com]

Plastic does degrade - it is making it not degrade that has kept chemists busy for years - the greatest "plastic waste" in landfills is baby diapers, by the way.

Go ahead and indulge.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

I want one of those too!

It was sad to see so many of them being destroyed in Germany in 1992 ;.;

If I remember correctly they managed to make some sort of bricks with the body's material o.0

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Nothing can top the Aztek for pure "yuck" factor, not even the Trabant. The Trabant doesn't have two wings set in the back window of a vertical bit of glass like the Aztek. A Trabant doesn't have the "no angle that isn't 90 degrees" rule that dominates the Aztek.

And to top it off - you _can_ give away a Trabant.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

I still think the AMC Gremlin tops both the Aztek and the Trabant
for homeliness :P

[atara.livejournal.com]

Somewhere in my stuff, I have photos of actual Trabants that I took in Germany.

They're ugly, loud and smelly. I love them. :)

[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing a few of these running around Prague. All were in rough shape and sounded like they were badly in need of a tune up.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Ah, they must have been new! :)

Q: How do you double the value of a Trabant?
A: Fill the gas tank.

Q: Why does a Trabant have a rear window defroster?
A: To keep your hands warm when you push it.