Well german and austrian licenses could've never been "repaid" with free market sales only. The only one right decision was cooperation with Karosa or ever russian LiAZ.
.....and the company closed down in 1999. Very convenient for western manufacturers who could then flood the Bulgarian market with their buses. Nevermind the poor Bulgarian people out of work. The whole "free market" is garbage. It's a nest of vipers. They will do anything to kill the competition.
Yes, because Bulgarian people were so much richer when Chavdar was around. And those amazing buses were so great, I couldn't get enough of them as a kid. My personal favorite was the 11M3 for school trips, with the engine in the passenger compartment behind the driver. It felt like watching a nuclear reactor in action. It will be a total lie if someone like me told you that even before the collapse of communism most of our buses in the capital were imported anyway (Ikarus 280). And no, I never joyrided on the second hand MAN SG192 that appeared in the early 90s, which were older than most Ikarus 280 but yet rode, looked and sounded so much better. It's also a lie that the MAN-powered Chavdar 141 introduced in 1996 looked out of shape in just a few years of operation.
Well german and austrian licenses could've never been "repaid" with free market sales only. The only one right decision was cooperation with Karosa or ever russian LiAZ.
.....and the company closed down in 1999. Very convenient for western manufacturers who could then flood the Bulgarian market with their buses. Nevermind the poor Bulgarian people out of work. The whole "free market" is garbage. It's a nest of vipers. They will do anything to kill the competition.
Yes, because Bulgarian people were so much richer when Chavdar was around. And those amazing buses were so great, I couldn't get enough of them as a kid. My personal favorite was the 11M3 for school trips, with the engine in the passenger compartment behind the driver. It felt like watching a nuclear reactor in action. It will be a total lie if someone like me told you that even before the collapse of communism most of our buses in the capital were imported anyway (Ikarus 280). And no, I never joyrided on the second hand MAN SG192 that appeared in the early 90s, which were older than most Ikarus 280 but yet rode, looked and sounded so much better. It's also a lie that the MAN-powered Chavdar 141 introduced in 1996 looked out of shape in just a few years of operation.
Да, бяха со мач ричър, ама всичките, а не само 10%.