• Registered: 2009-07-19
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Topic: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

I missed it this year because I was working in Germany, but I'd like to do this next year. I have two cars sitting here, and I can't decide between them:

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1973 Trabant, that one pretty well speaks for itself. This is the option most likely to complete the rally. It will also be the most comfortable and sensible choice. It would be pretty cool though, and a cross-country rally in a Trabi would probably never be forgotten.
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  • From: Seattle, WA
  • Registered: 2009-10-28
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

I envy you your options. I also am compelled to agitate in favor of any idea that makes a Trabant seem sensible by comparison.

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  • From: Vermont
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

Option number two is reminiscent of the Roadkill Boost Caboose, which seems like it should gain you bonus points.

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  • From: Elverson, PA
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

Props. Simply considering the EV/genset as an option takes Joules

  • From: Cleveland, OH
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

It’s the Escape from Moscow rally, gotta be the Trabi right?

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  • Registered: 2011-10-14
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

Guildenstern wrote:

It’s the Escape from Moscow rally, gotta be the Trabi right?

If it were escape from Leipzig or Berlin, it would be a forgone conclusion.

  • Registered: 2009-07-19
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

I was thinking the same thing. Up in Moscow they had decent Volgas or Tatras. Nobody wanted a Trabant; that was a ridiculous clown car that the Germans built. Maybe if we were doing an escape from Berlin, or Budapest, or Bratislava, but nobody escapes from Moscow in a Trabi.

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  • Registered: 2011-10-14
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

We have a Volga....

  • Registered: 2009-07-19
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Re: Moscow Rally Vehicle Choices.....................

Damn bougie car snobs..............

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