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**UnmariKam** · 11-26-2009, 04:43 PM

The Czechs built one of my all-time favorite cars:

And Tatra built the only good cars built during the Communist era behind the Iron Curtain.

Tatra (company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It looks like the love child of a VW Beetle and a Citroen.

There are zero Czech auto companies; they couldn't survive the transition to capitalism. The only reason the production is so concentrated in that part of Eastern Europe is cost. The workers are willing to work for less, and the governments are willing to throw money at the manufacturers. If the dollar continues its decline we'll be the low-cost country too, but it just means that we'll be poorer.

11-26-2009, 04:43 PM	#14
UnmariKam Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 494 Senior Member	The Czechs built one of my all-time favorite cars: And Tatra built the only good cars built during the Communist era behind the Iron Curtain. Tatra (company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It looks like the love child of a VW Beetle and a Citroen. There are zero Czech auto companies; they couldn't survive the transition to capitalism. The only reason the production is so concentrated in that part of Eastern Europe is cost. The workers are willing to work for less, and the governments are willing to throw money at the manufacturers. If the dollar continues its decline we'll be the low-cost country too, but it just means that we'll be poorer.
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