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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 10:00 PM Mar 2020

Sadly, it will be long time before we see scenes like this on the Beltway again.

When your mom want you home by 11:30 and its 11:25



{edited} It's a Fiat 126. Hat tip, Google.

Rally: incredible performance of a Fiat 126

Fiat 126

Fiat 126
Polski Fiat 126p



Overview
Manufacturer: Fiat (1972–1980), FSM (Polski Fiat 126p, 1973–1992), Fiat Auto Poland (1992–2000)

Powertrain
Engine: 594 cc Straight-2, 652 cc Straight-2, 704 cc Straight-2

The Fiat 126 (Type 126) is a rear-engined, small economy or city car, introduced in October 1972 at the Turin Auto Show as a replacement for the Fiat 500. The majority of 126s were produced in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, as the Polski Fiat 126p, where production continued until 2000. In many markets Fiat stopped sales of the 126 in 1993 in favour of their new front-engined Cinquecento. At a vehicle length of 3.05 metres, the Fiat 126 is almost exactly the same size as the original British Mini, and although it came to market 14 years later, production ended in the same year (2000), and its total sales of almost 4.7 million units were in close range of the Mini's 5.4 million. In Poland the car became a cultural icon in a similar manner that the Trabant 601 became for East Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall, and earned the nickname Maluch, meaning "The Little One" or "Toddler".
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Sadly, it will be long time before we see scenes like this on the Beltway again. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 OP
Whoever it is he's driving the crap out of that little car. brush Mar 2020 #1
The way he skeeted it around that last looping curve BootinUp Mar 2020 #2
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