Tiny unsafe cars coming to a garage near you

A report at the link below offers an irreverent critique of American cars to come after the new automobile emissions and efficiency standards dictated by the Obama administration.

Finally, Americans can start moving forward—albeit in small, unsafe, state-mandated, subsidized pieces of junk.

We all remember a time when we drove around in nearly any variety of automobile desired.

The forthcoming automobile emissions and efficiency standards will probably add more than $1,000 to the cost of the average car in your future.

The report says we should just consider the extra grand as charity or an "investment." We might as well cough up the dough. Thanks to Obama, our tax dollars are already keeping the U.S. auto industry going.

Shouldn’t we be allowed to buy big throbbing Belcfhfires (name changed to protect innocent vehicle brand names doomed by Obama’s decree) as long as we have a need for big cars and SUV’s and are willing to pay at the pump?


Maybe the feds should make Detroit produce cars like the one above. That should make the greenies really happy.

We have never owned a 4-cylinder car that had enough gumption to pull a lollipop out of a baby’s mouth! Sadly, that’s what the auto-buying public may be faced with after the feds get through overhauling the Detroit auto industry.

In a weak moment we purchased a new Pontiac Sunbird in 1984. Huge mistake. It was grossly underpowered with a five-speed tranny that constantly needed shifting. The car gave us “transmission elbow” unless there were no hills in sight.

Maybe I’ll latch on to a big car and the address of a good mechanic who can keep it running until it becomes part of our estate after we are gone.

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The video above shows a Trabant undergoing quality control in a 1950’s factory in East Germany.

The Trabant was a step below the forgettable Yugo but it may be a preview of Obamamobiles to come.

Time Magazine once said of the Trabant:

The car was powered by a two-stroke pollution generator that maxed out at an ear-splitting 18 hp, the Trabant was a car constructed of recycled worthlessness.

A virtual antique when it was designed, the Trabant was East Germany's answer to the VW Beetle - a "people's car," as if the people didn't have enough to worry about.

Trabants smoked like an Iraqi oil fire, when they ran at all and often lacked even the most basic of amenities, like brake lights or turn signals.

Have fun dreaming about the Obamamobile in your future.

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