Helsinki Disses German Trams, Going to Buy Croatian Trams

[VetLegion]

Wow, we're going to sell Finns some trams!

Finns seem to have had problems with German trains and are now considering other products. Sadly the Japanese don't seem to build any, nor do Americans, so it's probably going to be a European tram, the only question is which.

Croatian tram has arrived to Helsinki for testing.

On the left is the German crap tram to be replaced, on the right is the Croatian excellent machine



In the streets of Helsinki:



Now Finns be good and buy our tram, we just bought a hundred of these toys from you so give us some of our money back

[Lancer]

Balkan buggy! Does it come in any other colors?

The German tram looks like a shoebox w/ wheels, but nice paint job.

[VetLegion]

Blue is the colour of the city of Zagreb where it drives, I guess it can be painted in camouflage green since Finns seem to dig that, why not.

[Julian Delphiki]

It's only for testing now; there will still be purchase competition between manufacturers. This was on news few days ago, Croatian ambassador was driving around in this thing.

Helsinki City Transport has been quite disappointed with German crap, dunno yet if these are better.

Check out Sporakoff for comfortable public transportation (it's a pub tram - BEER!).

[Lancer]

If the German trains aren't living up to the contract, and from the article it certainly seems that they are not, that gives the Finns an out, yes?

[Lancer]

These Croat tram guys never made cars, right? Nothing to do with the Yugo, correct?

[VetLegion]

German technology went all downhill at about the time Mercedes bought Chrysler

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Lancer
These Croat tram guys never made cars, right? Nothing to do with the Yugo, correct?

ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Yugo , that was built in Serbia entirely. Well perhaps we supplied some parts, but in that case those were the good parts.

[VetLegion]

He, he, what a car Yugo was

I mean, still is. Though I see fewer and fewer on the road. But it was a big success in the US, destined for the top, until the American and the Japanese corporations joined and spent billions to tarnish its reputation

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by JulianD
It's only for testing now; there will still be purchase competition between manufacturers. This was on news few days ago, Croatian ambassador was driving around in this thing.

Helsinki City Transport has been quite disappointed with German crap, dunno yet if these are better.

Check out Sporakoff for comfortable public transportation (it's a pub tram).

From what I read the German trams started to fall apart

Though to be honest you people seem to have purposefully designed your city to be difficult for trams, with lots of sharp curves and hills and whatnot. That's where I predict the Croatian tram could also have trouble (like the German), since here it drives on flat surface all the time. We shall see.

And excellent idea to make one coach a pub, I wish I commuted in one of those :beer:

[Proteus_MST]

So the faulty trams are from Bombardier....

But isn´t Bombardier a canadian company?

[VetLegion]

Yeah, try to blame Canada.

The truth is the German engineering is in a sad state. Older engineers like Sir Ralph are becoming fewer and with you studiying ballet and BeBro going into designing clothes, there's nobody left to replace them. It breaks my heart.

[Lancer]

[BeBMan]

[Proteus_MST]

Don´t underestimate us. With me finally making the Schuhplattler popular in the whole EU and BeBro making millions by the sale of original german Lederhosen and Dirndl to the whole world we will make enough money to found a large university dedicated to engineering with one of the facilities specialising in tram design