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Date: 25 Feb 1995 17:27:00 +0100
From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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j@uriah.sax.de wrote on 20.02.95 in <3iai2i$7qe@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>:

> Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:

> >(By existing law, all Trabbies would have been illegal on the roads after
> >the German unification, mainly for emission limits. So they made a special
> >law to allow them, ...
>
> Wrong.  Maybe they would have been banned due to some basic security

Nope. I can't swear to what law exactly was the problem, but there  
definitely _was_ a _legal_ problem.

> they do emit another kind of dirt, but that's still dirt... (in other
> words: all of them are stinking).

Oh boy. Those that stink are diesels. Even new diesels stink.


Kai
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