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Originally Posted by Tootsall Jim, I'm surprised you are picking on Yugo! I understood that the wonderful East German automotive industry had one even better... called "Trabant". |
Very good, I had never heard them -- but from the sounds of it, I wasn't missing much but a good laugh. I picked on Yugo because after I graduated with my doctorate (way back in '86) a was dirt poor and need a car to commute 40 miles each way to my new job. I bought a Yugo, and this is how a felt after the first year
I sold it two weeks before they went bankrupt to a Chevy dealer who thought they were slamming me into a Cavalier. When the Yugo with only 12,000 miles on it went from being worth $4000 to parts overnight, the Cavalier was a good deal! Ah, back in the days of being young.
My friends, bless their hearts, bought me personalized Colorado license plates that said "IMADOC" for getting my PhD. I hated them (the plates not my friends) but to honor my friends, I put them on my car. Great -- a Yugo with "IMADOC" on the plates. Some nice looking girls came by one day when I was buying gas and said, "If you are a Doc, what's with the Yugo?" It was a good question.
I had a sign made that said "I am paying my student loans" and put it in the back window. That helped some.
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