In the actual issue: http://www.autobild.de/klassik_5902.html

there is a story "Autos für die Ewigkeit" ("cars for the eternity").

That cars:
- VW Typ 1
- Mercedes G-Modell
- Volvo Amazon
- MG B
- Opel Kadett C GT/E
- Mercedes W 123
- Peugeot 404
- Suzuki LJ
- Ford Mustang (T5)
- Mercedes Unimog

and further:
- Renault 12
- Mercedes W 116
- Wartburg 353
- Porsche 324
- Ford Granada MKI
- Saab 99
- Willys Jeep MB


Sure, you can have annother opinion (where's the Landrover? The Toyota Landcruiser? Volvo 240-series? Mercedes W 120? Opel Kapitän?)
But you must be aware, that it's a magazine from the BILD-company (similar bad reputation as the SUN in UK), so you should't believe, what they are writing.
But the "AutoBild Klassik" is usually better than the other BILD-papers. I know the both main redacteurs. They are real classic-car-fans with a good knowledge.
Usually I never buy BILD-products, this one only about the K 70-story on page 70.
A propos: on the link above, you can see annother story about the K 70. Clic on the green Triumph TR 7 - "I'm driving a Flop" is the title.
Other flops (for the magazine) were:
- Ford Edsel
- Lancia Trevi
- Simca 1308

Ah, too bad. By the end of the year I will actually be able to read that article. See, I have just started taking a German class and will hopefully start to be able to read and speak many "Deutsch" words in the next few months. Maybe you can help me out Ingo
So far (after only three days of class) I have learned how to have the most basic of conversations:

"Hallo"

"Guten Tag!"

"Wie heisset du?"

"Ich heisse Max"

"Wie gehts, Max?"

"Gut"

"Fantastisch!"

(and if there is someone else with you)

"wer ist das?"

"Das is mien freund (insert name)"

"Ich sehe"

"Tschüss!"

"Auf Wiedersehen"

Very good for the beginning :king:

Some other useful words or sentences:

- "Autoverwertung" : car salvage

- "Möchtest du einen Kaffee mit mir trinken?" : Do you want to drink a coffee with me?
In the late evening, if you say it to a girl (or a girl to you), it has annother meaning than during the day

- "geil" means originally "horny", but it always used by younger people in the meaning of "hot" or "great"

- "Was kostet das?" : "How much is it?"

- "Ich hätte gerne...." : I would like to have...

- "Verpiss Dich!" - "Piss off!"

And, for sure, there is a bit variety of words or names for, for example:
- being drunk
- for girls (in bad or good meaning
- nasty names


I don't want to irritate you too much, but there are differences in the language, not only the dialect, between the parts of Germany.


To be serious again: it's good to learn other languages in the school, but the only way to learn it really, is the excercising in reality. If you MUST talk, you will make it (if you have learned the foundations before).

So I've been very bad in English in school. Then I made a one-month-school-exchange to Canada - but there I've talked German, too ,because it was a German-Canadian family. Once in the supermarket, they pushed me to the butcher's table and have said "Now order!" - they have loughed, because I've only showed with the finger on the meat and sausages.
Three years later, I've visited them again. There my friend had to time to trevel with me, so I went alone - and it has worked good!
I was proud as hell, after I could tell -in English- some other tourists in downtown Vancouver their way on the map. And they (I think German or Dutch guys) haven't seen, that I'm a foreigner, too.

Yes, I've learned the most of English by my old-car-hobby later on!
I've helped the guys from other countries with informations and spare-parts. In the last years, especially since I'm in the Internet, nearly daily I'm in contact with people from other countries.
And since I'm active in this forum, surely, I'm using much more English.


Due my hobby I'm also trying to know a bit from other languages. So my French is very bad (only 3 years in school, no excercise in reality). But I've tried to get a log-in for a big French car-forum to get more Francophone informations about my hobby.

Dutch I can understand quite good (reading better than listeng or talking), because a lot of my K 70-friends are from Holland. And -probably our Dutch friends here didn't like to hear that - historicially seen, Dutch is a branch of the ancient North German dialect.

Swedish has the same roots as German and English, so I can read it a bit. Danish and Norwegian are a bit more difficult.

I had 7 years Latin in school (idiotic decision, I should better have chosen French or Spanish), so I can understand single words of Italian or Spanish, but it's not enough to read an news-article.

From Polish, Czech, Hungarian (not to talk about Russian) I cannot understand anything. Perhaps one or two words.