If it has to be cars, I prefer the Trabant or Citroen DS style look. Those are beautiful.
But that said… what is y’alls favourite bicycle? I personally really like the omafiets ones, they’re solid and have incredible durability. I’ve seen people easily do 15+ years with them, and they can also carry two adult people sometimes (one on the saddle, another on the luggage carrier if it’s steel).
It is and it’s a piece of shit, there’s a reason you don’t see them on the road much anymore. Actually, there are many reasons.
Minus the last year or two of production they had tiny two stroke engines. Like basically dirt bike engines, but nowhere near as powerful since it had low compression and a low redline.
Of course that later engine, which is pretty rare, is barely any more powerful since it’s twice as big but also four stroke - but at least being a four stroke it should run a fair bit cleaner and you won’t have to add oil to the fuel.
It also had no fuel pump, so the fuel tank sat on top of the engine. I imagine that would be fun if it started leaking, like in an accident or something.
Fuel consumption per Wikipedia is 7l/100km which doesn’t sound too bad but it’s about comparable with a luxury SUV in 2026 which weighs 4 times as much. At least a 6 cylinder diesel or hybrid one, big V8s will of course be worse.
You really wouldn’t want to take them out of the city either. The things weren’t powerful enough to warrant an overdrive gear so in fourth you’d be cruising on the highway at 90 km/h doing 4000 rpm or so.
The thing went out of production because by the end, more modern and better (in pretty much every way) cars were actually cheaper to buy too.
If it has to be cars, I prefer the Trabant or Citroen DS style look. Those are beautiful.
But that said… what is y’alls favourite bicycle? I personally really like the omafiets ones, they’re solid and have incredible durability. I’ve seen people easily do 15+ years with them, and they can also carry two adult people sometimes (one on the saddle, another on the luggage carrier if it’s steel).
For brands I never buy anything but Dutch-manufactured, tbh.
Isn’t the trabant made of plastic?
It is and it’s a piece of shit, there’s a reason you don’t see them on the road much anymore. Actually, there are many reasons.
Minus the last year or two of production they had tiny two stroke engines. Like basically dirt bike engines, but nowhere near as powerful since it had low compression and a low redline.
Of course that later engine, which is pretty rare, is barely any more powerful since it’s twice as big but also four stroke - but at least being a four stroke it should run a fair bit cleaner and you won’t have to add oil to the fuel.
It also had no fuel pump, so the fuel tank sat on top of the engine. I imagine that would be fun if it started leaking, like in an accident or something.
Fuel consumption per Wikipedia is 7l/100km which doesn’t sound too bad but it’s about comparable with a luxury SUV in 2026 which weighs 4 times as much. At least a 6 cylinder diesel or hybrid one, big V8s will of course be worse.
You really wouldn’t want to take them out of the city either. The things weren’t powerful enough to warrant an overdrive gear so in fourth you’d be cruising on the highway at 90 km/h doing 4000 rpm or so.
The thing went out of production because by the end, more modern and better (in pretty much every way) cars were actually cheaper to buy too.