"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/01/2015 at 05:10 • Filed to: Syrena, 105, Poland
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/01/2015 at 05:10 • Filed to: Syrena, 105, Poland | 3
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Sadly Peugeot replaced the 104 by the 205 so we can’t go down that route.
Instead, we have to go to Poland.
Fun and other facts about Poland:
It’s in central Europe. Never accuse a Pole of being East European.
It’s handily located for invasion purposes
It’s been invaded many times
It’s ceased to exist on occasion
It was moved west after WW2
Much of the Holocaust took place there. Quite a number of the supposedly Christian Poles participated enthusiastically in the massacre of their Jewish neighbours and in some places continued this after the war
Poles do not like to be reminded of this
One of Poland’s main exports is people with exotic combinations of consonants in their names. If you want manual work done in Western Europe, he’ll be called something like Dariusz or Lukasz. If you buy a coffee or similar, you’ll be served by a Katrzyna or Patrycja
Fiat have a factory at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! It makes the 500 for all markets outside America and the Ford Ka. GM also make engines there
Poland used to have its own car industry making its own cars. Which brings us at last to the Syrena 105. This was a small two door model with, as was quite popular at one time, a two stroke triple with 842cc and not many hp. It was made by two different companies during its life, the second being the intimidatingly named Fabryka Samochodów Maolitraowych, mercifully called FSM, one of whose factories was at Tychy and which is now Fiat Poland.
KnowsAboutCars
> Cé hé sin
05/01/2015 at 05:20 |
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Quoi?
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And if we decide to stay on 4 wheels then there’s the Talbot 105 (Airline in this case).
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Cé hé sin
> KnowsAboutCars
05/01/2015 at 05:25 |
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Too obvious...
Better to use a completely unknown (to me!) make.
Svend
> Cé hé sin
05/01/2015 at 05:25 |
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My thing I find interesting between the U.K. and Poland (bare with me, my brain does funny things, then finds them funny). In the U.K. Rover started out making bicycles, namely the Rover Safety Bicycle in 1885. The Polish for bicycle is rower and as many will know the ‘w’ is pronounced as a ‘v’. Which I’ve since found that the word ‘rower’ actually comes from the name Rover.
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Okay well I found it interesting. :(
Jobjoris
> Cé hé sin
05/01/2015 at 05:31 |
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Lovely Syrena. But somehow I was hoping for this:
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KnowsAboutCars
> Svend
05/01/2015 at 05:32 |
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That is interesting bit of trivia. Do you happen to know what made the Rover bicycles particularly safe compared to other makes, or was it just pure marketing?
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Svend
> KnowsAboutCars
05/01/2015 at 05:49 |
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A safety bicycle was the name given or associated with the type of bicycle in that they were safer than the very large front wheel and much smaller trailing wheel.
Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready
> Cé hé sin
05/01/2015 at 07:57 |
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“One of Poland’s main exports is people with exotic combinations of consonants in their names. If you want manual work done in Western Europe, he’ll be called something like Dariusz or Lukasz. If you buy a coffee or similar, you’ll be served by a Katrzyna or Patrycja”
Hungary is almost as good at that.
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Cé hé sin
> Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready
05/01/2015 at 08:38 |
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We tend to assume that all immigrants are Poles though regardless.
Hungarians are more into exotic vowels anyway. Lots of ö and so on.
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Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready
> Cé hé sin
05/01/2015 at 08:42 |
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Yes, though they do the “sz” thing a lot. Understandably little more than we use “s’’.