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Re:30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan... by interfixus on Monday September 02, 2019 @06:26AM (#20858095)
In my far younger days I had the great good fortune to own a Morris Mini - the original doghouse, not the modern pastiche. That car did weigh 600 kg, and I happen to know for a fact that six men could easily pick it up and carry it a distance. I also know that it had a length of very close to 3 meters, and that the basement ramp where those six men put it was 3.10 meters wide. As they said when they fetched me, "You may wish to grab something to drink".
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Re:30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan... by _iyig on Monday September 02, 2019 @07:19AM (#20858362)
Besides its similarly light weight, the 3-cylinder Geo Metro was short enough to fit sideways inside a typical American parking space. Thus college kids would often lift and turn it, between two other occupied spots.
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Re:30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan... by ptaipale on Monday September 02, 2019 @06:45AM (#20858180)
Many of us have done that to people like teachers who owned a Fiat 600 or 127.
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Re:30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan... by perilunar on Monday September 02, 2019 @09:51AM (#20859094)
I once saw some uni students drive a Fiat 500 into an elevator in a building, take it up to the second floor, and drive it around the hallways.
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Re:30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan... by interfixus on Monday September 02, 2019 @07:29AM (#20858417)
You may be thinking of the Fiat 126, sort of an updated 600. The 127 was a somewhat heftier hatchback, more like a VW Polo or Ford Fiesta.
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Re:30 Years On, the ‘Worst Car Ever Built’ Has a Fervent Fan... by ptaipale on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:07AM (#20858567)
It surely was 127 - heftier, but still definitely hand-movable by a half a dozen of adolescents...

Fiat 127 is front-wheel-drive and bigger than Fiat 600, but still weighs under 700 kg.

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