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bentley@access.digex.net.nyetspam wrote:

>Walt Horning <whorning@pipeline.com> said something like:
>: I saw a strange sight on the interstate this evening. It as a Trabant,
>: a car made at one time in the former East Germany.
>
>[snip]
>
>: I also question the wisdom of allowing too small a vehicle on the
>: interstates, but I know its a free country and they can take their
>: lives in their own hands if they want.
>
>Actually Trabants have never been legal in the US. They can pass neither
>federal safety nor emissions requirements, and while it is POSSIBLE to
>spend a quarter million on, say, a Ferrari F50 to get it up to spec, a)
>who in their right mind would spend that much on the world's cheapest car
>(the Trabbie) b) I have serious doubts as to whether its fiberglass
>unibody can be made to withstand a 30 mph frontal crash, regardless of
>money.
>
>I doubt very seriously that you saw a Trabant on a US Interstate.

Having seen hundreds of them when living in Germany and having see the
Trabant logo made me a believer.