JFK a écrit

Yes, it was a good car comparing to its time and circumstances, but choosing it as a daily car today is absolute madness.

It's awfully slow (almost minute to get 100km/h, it's hard to safely enter to crowded roads outside town. It's more than likely you will became a decent car mechanic after spendind a year or two with 126p - it brokes and need maintenance (lubricating, fulfilling oils) very often. But in fact almost every repair is simple even for a beginner. You can demount an engine and rear axle in minutes. Fuel consumption is way too big for its performace (7-8l/100km), you need to tune the carburator from time to time and won;t be shocked if your Maluch eats even 10l/100km if you forgot about that. It has almost no luggage, space in the rear is enough at most for 8yo kid. Sometimes he tries to kill you by weak, easily heating brakes or sudden opening the doors (from mod. 1978, I know the guy who screw this up) - few years ago I almost lost my girlfriend that way entering a corner with 70kmh..

But there are three IMO most important advantages:
1. It's uncredible easy and cheap to repair
2. It performs better in really bumpy roads than some modern "SUV"s
3. Irreplaceable in mountains during winter - you need to just to turn out your car, turn on reverse gear and you will slowly climb on every snowed height ( Few einters ago I was the only one who did this somwhere in Beskid mountains, any other car, even the modern ones failed at most in the middle )

oh, and 4. It has nice swap potential - I saw Maluch with several engines like Uno 1.1, Punto 1.2, Yamaha R1 and it;s ride like hell.

Few youtube clips:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujCUCgn6TY (Maluch with Yamaha engine)

Awesome amateur rally performance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdBuwzRAEAw

...and my favourite classic: REVERSE MALUCH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCp76nG5ck

sajmon14 a écrit

Agree. If you don't need 5dr body choose CC Sporting. I drove CC900 for a week and it's reliable as a typical city car. Incredible visibility in all directions, more space than in Tico, more comfortable seats, quite spacious for its size. The only reason you can choose Tico is you absolutely need 5 doors or you are absolutely out of money. According to polish users of these cars Tico consuming much less fuel:

Factory average fuel consumption/user's average f.c. (min.)/user's average f.c. (max)/user's average f.c. (ecodrive)

-Tico (l/100km) 6.2l Pb (xx lpg)/5.0 (5.8)/6.3 (7.3)/4.2 (5.1) - data from 849 users
-CC900 (l/100km) 5.9 Pb (xx lpg)/6.0 (6.9)/7.8 (8.8)/5.2 (6.0) - data from 255 users
-CC Sporting (l/100km) 6.2 Pb (xx lpg)/6.5 (7.6)/8.8 (9.6)/5.5 (6.5) - data from 79 users

I type also lpg consumption in case if you decide to look after your car in Poland where more than a half of these cars has mounted LPG instalation.

In Poland unmarked traffic police vehicles sometimes also don't use beacons on top:
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And also red/blue bacons are used by the first and last emergency vehicle in the column.

www.grzegorzp.ionic.pl/data/media/12/101_4002_kopia.jpg
cdn30.se.smcloud.net/t/photos/138727/plk_andrzej_pawlikowski_szef_bor.JPG


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JFK a écrit

And you mean marked or unmarked police cars?

The price will start from 130k GBP. In this year Arrinera will test it in open class in Pirelli World Challenge and British GT Championship.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4FD4hc8GJ8

Desscythe17 a écrit

Sultan of Brunei liked luxury SUVs before it was fashionable.

Whole article about this car: translate.google.pl/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poznajemysamochody.pl%2Findex.php%2F2015%2F12%2F10%2Fjak-to-pierwszy-suv-bentleya%2F&edit-text=

[quote=JFK]Who came up with bright idea to translate it as Moskvich? It is derived from Moscow, so Moskwich would be more suitable.
(If it is not clear - it is not mistake done by anyone here, but someone who translated it in cold war)[/quote

Can't find why we're using 'w' in Moscow, but this is an exception. в is a 'v' in every cyrillic-english transcription standard. Why not 'Moskva'? Because in XII century this city was called "Moskov".

JFK a écrit

Indeed, but the agreement between FIAT and POLMOT from X.1971 provides that foreign currency expenditures for the purchase of machinery, equipment, parts and components of the car until they produce in Poland, will be repaid by FSM export. So some of pre-1979 126's were built in Poland as well as every 126 made after 8.6.1979.

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I have to think about making interior like that in my Favorit...

Desscythe17 a écrit

Done.

JFK a écrit

It's similiar but it's not.

Rinspeed a écrit

onlytruecars.com/data_images/models/innocenti-c/innocenti-c-10.jpg

Rinspeed a écrit

Done. Thanks for notice!

These two prototypes was build based on Giulia Sprint GT chassis and were equipped with 1.6 Giulia TI engine, not V8s used in serial production.

JFK a écrit

Yes, you're right. I can't explain how this Zaporojetz came into my mind. ;x

Thanks for noticing, it'll be fixed within minutes.

It's not precisely a Isetta clone. Otto Hoffmann wanted to buy Isetta licence but BMW has preced him. So he decided to develop his own car modeled on ISO Isetta. Then BMW has filed his lawsuit for plagiarism and copying the design. Although the process ended amicably, it turned out that in the meantime the situation of Hoffmann factory has undergone a dramatic change. This is because the company Piaggio, Vespa licensor Hoffman withdrew permission for production under restrictions for unauthorized and arbitrary introduction of design changes. In mid-1955 years Hoffmann deprived of the basic products went bankrupt.

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JFK a écrit

Some encoding problems on the site. AFAIR Rinspeed is working on it.

JFK a écrit
What's the title of this book?

Rinspeed a écrit

I like your idea too!

JFK a écrit

They did it to make this car able to start in 1600 ccm class (due to 1,4 coefficient). But I have no idea why they chose 120 engine instead 105. Maybe because S120 engine is a little bit "squarer" what is make engine more flexible. But it's just a blind guess.

JFK a écrit

Why not? It was just a one-off, like polish 'Stratopolonez' - webcarstory.com/voiture.php?id=1182

JFK a écrit

According to Karel Repa's book "Škoda 130 RS : vítěz Mistrovství Evropy značek 1981" it was downsized 120 engine.

JFK a écrit

In fact - 4 years. But there were major exterior changes for 1981 season, not sure about technical ones.

Good to see you on our site, JFK! Never heard about this make before!

I love it!

Desscythe17 a écrit

Got it!

Rinspeed a écrit

I thought that production start date is more important than model year.

Desscythe17 a écrit

AFAIK Production starts in November, first pre-ordered Bentaygas will arrive on spring 2016.

Rinspeed a écrit

That's the first reason. Second one is almost none visual differences between them.