Note that just on the other side of the wall was West Germany making BMW and Mercedes that were status symbols. Also East Germany was being propped up by the Soviet Union, a nation with a relatively small population a MASSIVE land area, and that land is MAGGOTY with national resources.
Yet all of those factors in FAVOR of it, and this piece of shit is what the people drove.
Communism: an idea so powerful, it turned *Germans* into lousy engineers within one generation.