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**OixKKcj1** · 11-26-2009, 10:01 PM

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.

Actually, the VW is the descendant of the Tatra. VW infringed on several key Tatra patents and Porsche admitted to stealing the patents in a lawsuit won by Tatra. Unfortunately, it was won in 1960 and T87 was long gone.

Tatra still makes trucks. They make the ultimate SUV: Tatra 815 8X8

Many of the people that came to work in steel in the USA in the 19th and early 20th centuries were from eastern Europe and they came with some experience. I'm thinking about Poland and probably the Czech areas as well. So this type of manufacturing isn't so unusual there.

What killed the Czechoslovak auto industry were the Nazis who didn't want a Czech car competing with their cars. Then the Russians came with the humungus is better philosophy and changed small industry into big industry and cars weren't part of the plan.

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OixKKcj1 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	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. Actually, the VW is the descendant of the Tatra. VW infringed on several key Tatra patents and Porsche admitted to stealing the patents in a lawsuit won by Tatra. Unfortunately, it was won in 1960 and T87 was long gone. Tatra still makes trucks. They make the ultimate SUV: Tatra 815 8X8 Many of the people that came to work in steel in the USA in the 19th and early 20th centuries were from eastern Europe and they came with some experience. I'm thinking about Poland and probably the Czech areas as well. So this type of manufacturing isn't so unusual there. What killed the Czechoslovak auto industry were the Nazis who didn't want a Czech car competing with their cars. Then the Russians came with the humungus is better philosophy and changed small industry into big industry and cars weren't part of the plan.
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