Why Bosnians Only Drive Volkswagen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Why is the VW Golf so adored in Bosnia? Some people say that Golf's legendary status here was born during Bosnia's war of independence in the 90s. But the story goes back far further than that. We take a trip to find out more.
00:00 Bosnia-Herzegovina love of VW
00:52 Fastest Golf MK2
05:02 VW Golf car club Sarajevo
07:04 History of TAS & VW
09:22 Bosnia War & VW
14:31 VW Golf Museum
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Camera: Moritz von Lüpke
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In Bosnia we have a proverb A woman (wife) can be from a village but car must been from Germany
@vxlkrye2015 brother its like new 300k km is nothing for this bad boy 😆😆😆
@vxlkrye Pa istina brate dio nase kulture sta platiti 80000 za novi ako mozes 5000 za polovni
Bei uns sagt man , ein Dorf ohne Esel ist kein Dorf 🤣
@vxlkrye
And buy what?
A patetic dacia for 14.000€?
@@dan_6915 dacia is like low cost renault...now imagine the quality when even renault is questionable :)
My father bought a used (1985) Golf MkII in 1995, right after the war for 1.500€. He drove it for 15 years and had someone offer him €1.700 for it after that time. The stories you can hear about this car around here are mind boggling.
What a great story! 🤩 Can you tell us some of those stories? We would also love to see some pics or a video from your Golf. Looking forward hearing from you.
@@DWREV i have a friend that uses a mk2 golf 1.6 diesel for work with 650 000km on the clock. And i mean USING it. Loading it with construction material and driving workers around 😆 While his mk4 golf is kept in the garage for rare occasions.
due to inflation i guess he did not gain any money even tho the number 1500 is lower than 1700.
@@heisenfeis He never sold it.
Look at it this way, imagine you bought a car 15 years ago. A car that was driven and wasnt kept in the garage and wasn't invested in. And then someone offers you more than what you paid for it. And we're talking about a car that has been produced in tens of millions, not some rarity.
Inflation would be 43.1%, so it would come down to 2.146 Euros.
Which would mean my father drove a car for 15 years and it only cost him 646 Euros, 43 Euros a year.
What other car can you rent for 50 bucks/Euros a year?
Tas fabric automobile Sarajevo
Greetings to Bosnia from a fellow Golf driver from Germany!
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Greetings from a Golf driver in the US!
@@bosanskipatriota2295 Brate💪🏽❤️🇧🇦
@@theonlyMoancore 🇧🇦❤️🇺🇸
Short answer.
It was built in Sarajevo factory, and parts were smuggled over the fence for free - so it made it popular because it was basically free to maintain and every mechanic had all parts in stock bought for practically nothing.
Here in America they never made decent supply lines a VW is significantly more expensive to maintain than a Ford or Toyota. As a rule anything from Europe will cost you a arm to maintain.
@@baronvonjo1929 haha that's kinda funny a golf (not gti or r) is known as a cheap to mantain car here in the eu
"Nobody is perfect but if you drive a golf, you're pretty close." well said. 😌
90% of them are stolen from EU
cringe
@@milosjanic1038 😂
I remember after the war, when they were proposing a new neutral flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the most sympathetic suggestion to me was to put the silhouette of the Golf II on the flag. And what they say, you can find spare parts for golf at the kiosk. I also have a golf II.
Haha 🇧🇦🚗
Man of culture right there.
@@MaxP374 ?
Hella cool man
This doesn't help!
The Bosnian people appear to be so genuine and kind. It reminds me of Albania a lot. Respect from Belgium 🇧🇪
This region has some of the best ppl on the planet
Interesting. Just like in Albania where 1/3 of the cars there are Mercedes, in Bosnia 1/3 of them are Volkswagens.
Albanians chose first 🙂
There is a small town here in Herzegovina where every car is Mercedes. As long as it's german, you can't go wrong :)
difference between albania and bosnia is that bosnians built and bought them but albanians stole them 😁
@@vietnowsoldo someone should move there and buy a bmw just to annoy everyone
@@vietnowsoldoGerman cars and reliability aren’t friends
I have TAS Golf mk 1 , I inherited mine from my grandfather and ih has so much value to me I could never live without it. It's so nice to see someone making video about love for Golf in Bosnia, although I'm Croatian, Golf has special meaning for us too
#NeverWithoutGolf 🤩 Can you send us some pics or a video of your VW for our next project? Looking forward hearing from you.
I have inherited the VW nbut not a Golf, we had a Passat b3 that drives even after 16 years and I plan on to keep it on the road for many more years
we're all the same people brother. The borders don't define who we are as people. Politicians divided us .. people unite each other. Pozdrav!
Makes sense sinececroatsbosniansandgermansareallnazis.
@@danhobart4009 project much? Your comment doesn't even make sense.
Volkswagen Golf 2 is the best car ever made. I had one about 5 years and drove with it over 110000 km with it.
You sold it?! 😱😂
@@DWREV no, an idiot ran a red light and wrecked his car at an intersection
I agree.
My mk2 jetta is the toughest car i bought
My mk2 have 377.000km
I'm really impressed about his language skills! I know many over here, being residents since 15+ years that do not speak close as fluent as he does.
Un lindo saludo para mis Bosnios y Herzegovinos desde 🇪🇨 Ecuador..
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here in brazil we love VW Golf so much too, its a very special car
VW Gol even more
Nothing special there are millions of them
SP2 is the best looking VW ever ever, it only needs and engine swap badly !
I have had mine for 25 years. My sister's first car. I bought it from her. All original dents and all. 500k+ miles. Still going. Love that little car! 1985 VW Golf 1.8l 5spd 2 door.
Nice to see people appreciating what they have. In America we live in a throw away society. Maybe I’m just old school, but I like the past and what it represents. Thanks, RickGTI….. 🇺🇸🌴
Well we need to change that mindset globally. The industry made us this way.
@@hypnotize107 people need work and money. One car, one washmaschine one tv for an entire lifetime....most people wouldn't have jobs.
I've always admired Bosnian people. Now they have my highest respect!!!
I love seeing us Bosnians finally being represented on a show like this, and especially our little slice of car culture.
Well done!
I am impressed by production quality of this video, thank you for visiting my homeland and making this content !!
the Germans stopped using thes, easy to fix yourself at home designs !
My dad has VW Touran 1.9 TDI 2004 with over 700,000 kms, couple of tweaks here and there and it still runs like new, interior still looks amazing, but there are still a lot of people here who hate those cars for whatever reason, i have seen couple of Golf Mk4 and Mk5 with over 2 million kms, they were imported from Germany and turns out they were used for Taxi purposes
Nice episode. I like VW Golf, and I did enjoy spending time in Bosnia!
I was on vacation in Bosnia and in every mayor city there were alot of volkswagen Golfs.
Very nice and educational video!Greetings from Sweden and sturdy volvos🇸🇪
I'm Bosnian and live in USA.
I own a Volvo 850 with 300k miles and it's a tank.
i live in Germany, both of my parents are from Bosnia. Every time i visit Bosnia, Golf 2 is waiting in garage.
Wie hält er sich so nach längerem parken?
In México the golfs are very popular too. There's something about these cars that you fell in love with them. I've sold mine and months later I buy another one.
I've had so many different cars but I always go back to vw. Audi and porsche are just too expensive to modify
ty so much for making this as a bosnian this brought tears to my eyes, amazing little documentary
Sehr schöner Bericht und mal was neues.Wusste ich noch nicht ,daß Bosnien so ein VW Land ist.TAS Golf hab Ich scjon mal gesehen,,aber wusste nicht daß der aus Bosnien kommt.Sehr Interesant,auch die umgebauten getunten echt geil.Kanal abonniert.
Hochachtung über so eine Doku...ich werde ins schöne Zeit aus meiner Jugend versetzt
I love Bosnia and Bosnian people and Volkswagen Golf ❤❤
WOW amazing video. Really great Job. I might have to make a trip to Bosnia
consider this comment an invitation
Welcome brothers ☝️🇧🇦⚜️☪️🇨🇨🐎☺️
We owned a Golf in the 80's and my dad traveled to Italy from Bosnia in 1990 to buy a Jetta which was stolen at the very start of the war. I ran across it couple of years later. I recognized it due to the stickers on the back of the car that I put there. Of course we had no recourse. I swore off VW since then and drove Honda's and Mercedes only however I had a change of heart recently. I actually went in to order a new Jetta a month ago. Hopefully I get to keep this one forever lol.
What a great story! We hope you"ll keep this new Jetta forever as well. Don't forget to send us a message once you get 100.000 km on the clock.
new vw are rubbish
Modern vw are not really that what they where once....
We love golf also in Montenegro 🎉
I swear in mntnegro few years Ago during my Visit i only saw golfs II or old black mercedes
mustafa's story is so inspirational
It's nice to see people value their equipment for sentimental reasons and the function it provides.
Thank you for sharing their stories. ❤
Great video but i must say there is a mistake, that is an intercooler fitted on the front not a radiator🙂
I bet it needs an IC that size with those performance numbers.
Yeah... it's an radiator fot the IC... how do you think IC works?!
@@stephmaccormick3195 still not a radiator a radiator cools engine coolant, an intercooler cools the charged air coming from the turbo
@@stephmaccormick3195 no its not
She is right you can find a golf 1 or golf 2 in every city, every street although they were even more common 10 years ago. Parts for the golf are very affordable and easy to find also it’s much easier to fix when things break. Truly the car of Bosnia
Tbh i don't remember last time seeing Mk1, sad to see them disappear, an uncle of mine had one when I was a kid
I learned to drive in a MK1 Golf. It belonged to my Grandfather who previously owned 3 new Beetles. My Grandmother bought it for him as a gift. He had no idea he was getting it. He loved that car as did I. When he passed away he willed it to my Mother who then taught me to drive in it. Since then I've owned numerous Golf GTi's and Golf R's and now both my daughters each one a VW Polo (that I bought for them) and my wife just bought a new T-Cross three weeks ago. VW's have been a massive part of our family for well over sixty years now and four generations. Your video brings back emotions. Thank you
Aside from TAS factory, I believe in Bosnia the Bosnians recognized that VW is indeed a Volks Wagen.
A car for every day Joe, easy to fix, maintenance affordable, last long... a true people's car.
A car for every day Juka, not Joe :P
I'm in Canada and I have owned 3 generations of VW Jetta and my current mk4 wagon tdi is my favourite. It's fun searching for European exclusive parts to customize my car the way I want. Since my first VW I have only owned VW and it's never going to change.
Tdi pump deuce your wagon ?
@@myneymo77 vw bora pd130 for me 💪
Funny.. im in Canada too but after my first car which was a 90hp 1.8L mk3 golf, i bought 7 Hondas and never looked back.
I do miss the iconic clack clack clack clack noise my golf made in reverse though lol.
I've had a few VW's but owning the same brand because it was your first sounds dumb.
Quality and design change all the time.
This video and the story is amazing, thank you for that and keep rolling........
Thanks for watching!
DW what a great story, what a great country and what a car VW…
Great video.
Got a golf 2 as my first car a couple months back and I love it, when it runs properly that is. Its quite the fixer upper as its got carburetor problems, vacuum leak that I cannot find and some electrical difficulties between the temp sensor and heater, but hey, it's something.
What a great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
When I went in Bosnia I had the same question why there are so many second and third generation especially golfs, finally I found some explanation.
If Harrison Ford was living in Bosnia, his name would be Haris Golf.
😂😂😂
Thanks for video. We still have Jetta 2 1.6 tdi from 1990. Part of family.
MK2 Golf is legendary!......I'm on my 5th one since the 90's! 💪🏾😻
My grandaunt & uncle worked in the TAS factory and there were actually some mk3 prototype's made just before the war broke out
Awesome video
Love it
Glad you enjoyed it
I love my 04' Passat 1.8T Wagon 5-Speed. Being a family man here in Wisconsin most are surprised seeing The Granny Sleeper lift up it's skirt and run.... 😉😁 I see you got Hoosier tires that came from up North from where I live. 😉
Owned a mk5, mk6 & MK7 have to say these are the most fun I’ve had. Getting ready to do mpi to the mk7
I just saw this and it makes me miss My modified Golf MK2 back in South Africa. I dont know what it is but the GOLF MK2 just has a certain vibe that you just cant get from any other car. Also the fact that we VW driver will all appreciate one anothers creation is something truely remarkable !
MK2 looked like the MK1 without being a Citi
Finally the word is getting spread that the country who has the most love for this car is located in the mountainous balkan region.
Not only in Bosnia & Herzegovina, I'm from Macedonia, currently driving Golf Plus, and I can tell you first ever "status-car" perceived be my was Golf Mk1 (TAS) owned by my grandad sister back in the early 90s'. Back than Golf was something special because everyone drove Zastava cars around me and this yellow Golf Mk1 was something that stand out from the ordinary.
really nice story and much love to bosna!
einfach nur atemberaubend 👍
Fantastic! I remember in my youth people drove either the Yugo or the Golf, and the newer Golf you had more respect you got!
Total genial! Hätte das gerne komplett auf Deutsch gesehen!
The main reason is because maintenance is cheap, average price of any spare part is roughly 20-50$. Second reason is because the spending standard is very low, average salary is like about 300$, so most of the people can't afford Bmw or Mercedes.
Have you priced a MK2 GTI lately? I'm guessing not.
In our family we had every generation of this beautiful car. Ill drive only Golf until i die!! Balkan loves you vw.❤️
In Holland we Love also te Volkswagen Golf, Golf 2 in particular they still love this and you also see them a lot
My father owned a Golf 2 1.6 gl in the Nineties and i remember it as the best car,it also had a particular plastic smell inside,very nice.And of course now i drive a Golf.
Super Doku, könnt ruhig noch mehr aus Bosnien berichten 💪
Please take note VW.
Don’t go down the Mercedes route and make cars to a price.
Keep your reputation as a builder of solid vehicles and you’ll keep your customer base.
I’ve got an old Mk1 Golf diesel with just over 500,000 kms on her. My dad bought her new in 1982. She’s my daily driver and this Christmas, I’ll be driving from Lisbon, Portugal to Madrid in Spain and back.
Brazil loves Volkswagen vehicles too, it's hard to break and if it breaks, everybody knows how to repair.
Of course we like to tune them too, here in Brazil it's common to see VW's Up, Gol, Polo and Golf tuned at Stage 3
I couldnt sleep because this car is tested near my house amazing job Adnane.
He's a lousy neighbor then. He should be more considerate of people who live nearby.
I remember when i left you a comment about this video idea. This is an amazing video, my favorite car is the mk2 ;)
As I fellow Bosnian I am truly dissapointed that very few people use seat belts accordingly. The arrogance and the ignorance about how important seat belts are just astounding. It's just so embarresing to see them not use it.
You can always tell a Bosnian, you just can't tell him much.
We need TAS up and running again! Hopefully Volkswagen makes this reality one day!🙏
Hvala care!
I'm a big fan of Volkswagen, I've been in that car since I was born. As soon as I was born, they put me in a Golf 2 and I spent a year of my life in that car while it was. My father that car was sold to my aunt in 2005, from 2005 to 2015 I grew up in a Golf 4 SDI 1999 with which I spent everything passed, learned to drive and the first car I drove. At the same time, I grew up in the Golf 2 in which I started my life, and in the Golf 5 TDI Edition from 2010, which was with my uncle at Taxi until 2018, where a cousin (son of the uncle) inherited that Golf. That Golf now has 760,000 kilometers and does not give up, suffering from 200 horsepower. In 2015, we owned a Skoda Octavia A5 4x4, it didn't let us down, we toured Europe with it, after that we had a Passat B6, also a nice car and never had any problems, and that's where I became an even bigger fan. In 2020, I thought my world was collapsing. My father sold the Passat, I had a lot of problems at home and my father bought a Toyota. I couldn't get used to that car at all, I wasn't satisfied with that car and I don't feel the same in other cars as I do in Volkswagen. At the time, I thought I wouldn't last any longer, but some problems are being solved. At the end of 2020, I met a man who is my best friend today because he is a Volkswagen fan and where VW brought us together, that man turned my life around, but all because of VW. A few months later, I realized my boyhood dream of driving a Golf 5 R32. After that, the Toyota started breaking down, we sold it and bought a VW Golf Mk7 with a panoramic roof. The Golf 7 has 330,000 kilometers and it doesn't give up, with that car I traveled to the VW meet in Imotski, I went to weddings, I traveled to my best friend in Slavonski Brod and had a nice drive, this year I fulfilled two more boyhood dreams that I went for a ride in Golf 5 GT Sport TDI R line with almost full equipment and that cousin took me for a ride in his Golf 5 GTI Edition 30, I've seen and driven a lot of VWs in my life and I can never get bored. I passed the driver's license for a car on a Golf 8, and a driver's license for a van on a VW LT46. I even worked at an authorized VW workshop. At home, I collect VW parts and VW jackets, t-shirts, pendants and the like... Simply, once a Volkswagen always a Volkswagen. Of course, I also have my page @best_of_volkswagen where I publish Volkswagens, I have met many VW fans through pages and VW Meets. Volkswagen forever 💙💙
🥰 Such an inspiring story! We would love to see some pics or a video from your collection and your car. Looking forward hearing from you.
@@DWREV For now, I currently own a Golf Mk7, it's not a special car, but something is coming soon
@@vedranr3697 slobodno mu pošalji i slika i video snimaka iz prošlosti… ujedno bi moglo pomoći i vidljivosti tvoje stranice. Pozz
In the museum shown are many cars that I've owned over the years.
That's cool and all but here in South Africa we love the Golf aswell so much that we made the MK1 Golf untill 2008 we have MK1 Golf's with 1.4i , 1.6i and limited 1.8i engines ,and it's cool that only we have them and all of them are made here in South Africa by Volkswagen of South Africa and also we have zero diesel Golf MK1's & MK2's also no Automatics
Here in South Africa the most popular Golf is the MK1. In fact an MK1's production in South Africa was discontinued in 2007/8.
Newer golfs aren't as popular now, it's all just Polos
@@bri1085 so true, Polos are literally everywhere
I had a 1991 mk2 Golf GTI 16v 3 door in oak green. I bought it in 1998 for about £7.5k and sold it a couple years later at just over £6k ! Now worth 15-20k easily so not the smartest decision ! I loved that car
Love my MK2 Jetta.. I've owned it 13yrs and won't ever get rid of it..
My father just sold his golf mk2 he had since the war in Bosnia, for 30 years it was in the family, never broke down. Great car!
Ihh, nije isto voziti Golf po Hercegovini u kamenjaru tamo ili po Srednjoj Bosni i planinama i usponima sa voznjom u Posavini na ravnici, gdje osim (mozda povremene) kaldrme, voznja i auto bas i nemaju neke izazove.
@@kolobara08 To je istina drug, auto se kupuje iz ravnice :D
I bought a 1985 Golf2 with 190k, sold it with 390k. 15 years later the buyer moved across from me, he still had it with 1 million plus on it!.. BTW it was Deisel 5speed manual
The Golf II was produced in Sarajevo in the Factory which is/was called TAS..
Im sent here from @Jake Rawson.
Really cool dude.
Loved the video, the concept and the way it was filmed. Keep it rocking
I love this car MK2😍
Ich bin Bosnier und lebe in Deutschland. Ich würde gerne die Reaktion der Top-Leute von VW sehen, wenn sie dieses Video sehen. Was ist ihr Gefühl. Sind sie stolz und glücklich, wenn sie so etwas sehen?
Natürlich fahre ich einen Volkswagen. 🥰
I have owned a Mk2, Mk3 and currently I own a mk 4 variant 4 motion . Love them. Probably upgrade to a Mk VII in a near future
Get a torsen instead
I can relate to the war stories here, I was there in 1997 with the US Army.
Yugoslavia was very respectful country all over the world... Sadly, fooking politicians teared us apart. Now we live in 6 separate countries and also whole new world.
VW 4 LIFE💯South Africa also loves VW
In our family you don't buy Golf. You inherit one.
I'm a hardcore VW lover...right now have a b5.5 Passat and a Mk4 golf ..had a couple Jettas , one a Wolfsburg, and am about to get my Mk4 golf a rebuild
Also very popular in South Africa but with the economy being what it is, the Golf has been swapped out for the Polo. The MK1 was very popular with the basic body plan being sold into the early 2010s as the VW Citi Golf. It was eventually replaced by the Polo vivo which is basically the previous gen polo
If you know of a highly tuned Golf (or a Golf with a mind-boggling figure on the Odo) somewhere in South Africa, write to us on rev.community@dw.com. We might even come by to film it!
Bosnia sure looks a nice place
They used to produce them, back in old Yugoslavia there was a big VW factory outside of Sarajevo.
Absolutely beautiful, VW is all I drive. Have no clue what initially got me into them, once you close the door you'll never drive an import. Solid little cars, super fun when massively overpowered too!
Massively overpowered never heard of.
Since Austrians Banned GTi Treffen it would be a great idea if you would organise the event in Bosnia. New location for GTi meet
Well, we hope the people at VW are listening to you. A Wörthersee revival in Bosnia might be a great idea! Although let's first see how their event at Wolfsburg goes...
Cooll. that's one kickas fast Golf.! own a VW too the Great German Machines.!
I love this _VW GOLF LOVE STORY_
Let's hope they _NEVER STOP_ talking about it____
It’s simple why we love Golf’s
Parts are easily accessible and cheep. Golf’s are great reliable cars.
Most Bosnians have a deep love for golf 2.
We love Golf in Bulgaria too. We call it the people's car.
Hey I recognize that song in the beginning, it's Himzo Polovina's "U Stambolu na Bosforu" right?
It is, sharp man.
Y yo que pensaba que México era de los países más fanáticos de Volkswagen, al punto de ser el país que tuvo el honor de producir el último Volkswagen Tipo 1 Sedán del mundo en el 2003, pero los Bosnios nos ganan con el Golf, saludos a Bosnia desde México.
Maybe we come visit Mexico next!
I hope so! Because this year 2023 is going to be the 20th anniversary of the last Volkswagen Type 1 being produced in the world!