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[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Igor Kessel <e6941tb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Ian J Haseltine wrote:

>> Ladas are both imported into and exported from the UK<...>

>No longer.
>Ladas will not be imported in the UK anymore, coz they fail to comply with
>the >British emission
>standards.
>As bad as they were, in '88 more than 30000 Ladas were sold in the UK.

Don't know about emissions, but the UK Lada importer has thrown in the
towel because they hadn't received any cars from Russia for months. They'd
been selling from stock, and that's exhausted now.
Now Lada was a bad example of East-European technology. Skoda, while at the
receiving end of lots of jokes, made reliable and sturdy cars (if not
pleasant to drive and with paint that went flat within a year!) The new
Skodas, especially the Golf Mk.4-platform Octavia, are actually very nice
cars in every respect, and Skoda deserves to be rehabilitated as a quality
car maker IMO.
Even FSO (formerly Polski FIAT, maker of one of the worst cars in the
world, the Caro) is now owned by Daewoo, so quality should improve. Soon,
_really_ bad cars could be no longer available... of course, YMMV. :-)

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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1988 Audi 80 1.8S, Tizianrot metallic, 211,000km


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