"dsi1" <dsi1@spamnet.com> wrote in message
news:jtNwm.221416$cf6.208145@newsfe16.iad...
> hls wrote:
>>
>> "Otis" <rev_otis_mcnatt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1f20ce7d-cd39-4208-920c-08032814acbb@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>>> Over the years, the inevitable subject of worst cars ever comes up,
>>> and the Vega
>>> is always at or near the top of the list. I've seen it a hundred
>>> times. I feel I should
>>> put in a good word for the little car.
>>
>>
>> That is, I believe, the car with the silicon/aluminum alloy engine...That
>> thing
>> went out for most people very quickly.
>>
>> Now, believe it or not, I have seen Yugos still on the road. Even the
>> worst
>> automaker allows a good one to slip out occasionally.
>
> Yugo = Fiat 128

Maybe the equality is not quite right, but similar.
Fiat also put Russia into the car business, IIRC.

We have owned three Fiats...a 131 Mirafiore, a 128, and another I cant
remember. The engines were okay, but the bodies tended to rust out
very badly on some of them.