Trabant-like vehicle spotted in Akureyri, Iceland

Hello everyone,
I was looking at Iceland through Google maps, and i found this vehicle which appears to look like a Trabant. However. all the Trabants I know are two-door models, and this one looks like it has four-doors.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@65....4!1sIlr422hpiHuVGax1NrsQSA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The car in question is parked next to a Subaru. So if this is not a Trabant, can you tell me what that vehicle next to the Subaru is? Because i honestly don't know.

 

It's a Peugeot 404.

 

Oh, thank you so much! It does look similar to a Trabant indeed!

 

It looks like a Trabant if a Trabant was a good looking car (so basically it doesn't look like a Trabant).

 

Well the Trabant looked like a pint-sized rendition of the average sedan of its era. It might be oddly proportioned because of this, it might be the emblem of modest motoring in Eastern Europe, but it's certainly not ugly.

 

I would disagree. I think it is ugly, the front end looks like somebody doing a fake smile.

 

Well, most cheap, small cars before the hatchback boom of the '70s kinda looked pretentious and overstyled. Potential customers often coudn't afford bigger cars, so utilitarian vehicles were often embellished to lift their overall presence.



In this sense, the Trabant isn't even the worst-looking one...

 

I would say that almost all of these are better looking than the trabant.
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Is the royal blue one a mini?

 

its a wolsley hornet which was basically an upmarket mini coupe

 

That specific car is a Riley Elf. Pretty much the same as the Wolsley Hornet, just with a single frame shield instead of the split grille on the Wolsley.

 

Well, I kind of have to agree with you there. I mean (most of them) are not vehicles from the Eastern Bloc, so the makers of these vehicles would at least have more money and resources to create better-looking vehicles.
(I actually think Eastern Bloc vehicles look cool in their own unique way, by the way)

 

Debatable.

The Bianchina is an overstyled Fiat 500 with faux-sedan bodystyle. The Fiat 850 is a "booted" Fiat 600 developed on a tight budget. The Ryley Elf looks funny and comically pretentious. The Hillman Imp is possibly one of the ugliest cars of its era... The NSU Prinz 4 is the best looking of the lot, and still it's remembered as an awful car, despite its merits.

The Trabant has (mosty undeserved) a bad reputation , but ugly? Really? At its prime, it didn't look any worse than the western competition, IMO.

 

Agreed. I forgot to mention the Trabant specifically. Even it if only got a somewhat decent VW Polo engine near the end of its lifespan.

 

The 404 is hardly an obscure car, they made nearly 2.9 million of them, sold all over the world.