Wilman is the driver but somehow I can hear Jeremy Clarkson's voice saying the words. This might be the actual secret of modern Top Gear / Grand Tour. Clarkson is just the mouth piece with Wilman being the creative writing genius.
Yeah, I grew up to top gear. A Comforting bit of humanity through the ole black and white ten Ton Telly box I used to have in the bedroom... There was this one episode I remember from when I was 11 Years old, and couldn't find again where I remember Clarkson doing a piece on cold war era cars, with a three wheeled Car with a Leather body, and he said atleast they were reliable, because they either worked and got you there or you froze to death if they broke down and stranded you. Turns out I just had to use the right words I didn't think to use last time I searched, namely "Top gear cold war cars" Rather than What I used to search for, like "Soviet, Russian ECT" Funny to see this so many years later and see it wasn't Clarkson doing the piece but Andy Wilman, and the whole body being Vinyl over a steel frame, though it does look like leather which is why I remembered it being a Leather car!
I have a communist car just for the fun of it, it's something different. Quite ironic though, communist cars now cost a fortune but i suppose they did in Russia back in the day too... Socialism for all but those in power
These cars were the Nomenclatura's (Communist feudal overlords) joke against the people of the USSR and it's Communist empire. A globalist social experiment.
They say those cars never become classic cars in future and in background you saw a Tatra 603. Now 23 years after this video recorded Tatras are hot classic cars every famous car collector have one or want one. even I can`t describe Tatras as a communist car, their idea is from genius Hans Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker. Just sadly Czech and Tatra find themselves behind communist walls.
yeah in the 90s they were worthless because in former communist countries people wanted modern cars and these old cars were sold on for basically nothing
Almost all of them are now cult classics. The spirit in these cars passes to the young people and their fans are increasing day by day. Servers were good at lying as usual.
@@TSL73 actually, I was the same idea but that was not true. They copied one particular thing but had their designs way before Tatra V570 was created. In 1928 they had small peoples car from Josef Ganz (but Hitler didnt want to support jewish inventors) so later they carried on with Porsche Type 12 in 1931. Even Mercedes had 130H model that was a small car but not peoples I suppose. The 1934 Mercedes 150H Sport Limousine had extreme resemblence to the VW. Then later after czechoslovakian takeover they took the blueprints - but they were accused from 3 points which only 1 they actually stole. On the other hand - all Tatra aerodynamic design came from german Zeppelin. Their design of Tatra T77 was kinda copy of John Tjaarda design from 1931. He didnt have any luck with US investors and no one bought his design. Until 1936 when it was re-developed into Lincoln Zephyr
Velorex is iconic and super fun to drive. I would compare it to the Morgan 3 wheeler in terms of the experience. They are pretty hard to find and expensive nowadays, mostly thanks to the classic Czech movie "Vrchní, prchni!".
My communist Skoda Favorit outlived almost all post-communistic cars that people in whole street bought later.. and still works. That Velorex, which is at the beginning was created as very cheap and simple vehicle for handicapped people.
Even now Skoda is not exported to Canada because of American export laws. Our VW's are assembled in Mexico, but Mexicans don't have a work-culture quality comparable to Germans, so the cars end up as shit (even though components arew delivered from Germany). But US does not allow us Canadians to import Skodas, even though we know they are cheaper and better than VW!
Well, this is not really a fair comparison at all. First of all, Velorex is not a "communist car" - it was designed in the early 1940s and first produced in 1945 out of neccessity when material was scarce and car production was literally out of question in most countries. Secondly, its not a car at all in any sense: its a vehicle specifically for disabled people, cheap enough to be given out for free by the government to quadriplegics during the times of food shortages and economical crisis after the war. So its much like comparing an NHS wheelchair to a design chair.
I love that you have preserved all of this old episodes which otherwise will be lost, Wanted to ask you: How many tapes of old Top Gear episodes you have?
@AlexGRFan97 well i am glad you are preserving history youtube is good for that, where normal people can preserve history that others won't touch or have forgotten about summed up best in this tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/TH-cam
A Polish builder I used to drink with sold his Lada Niva for a beer, the day he left for Germany. (I'm sure he would have taken the potato, if there was no other currency). That said, Tatra cars are amazing, second only to the Citroën DS
Bit stupid to call Comunist cars bad and hopeless even though most British Layland cars are the same or even worse. You go to a ex Comunist country and you will still se these cars on the road. They are quite robust. The same cannot be said about British Layland cars
Yeah, well British Layland was also run by the British Government. Lesson: Governments don't know how to run industries (any industry), and should leave that to the private sector. The thing about the private sector is that it MUST serve its customers. Government only serves itself, and almost never the customers.
This is a rather frustrating watch. The guy fails to actually talk about the history or conditions of the cars were made in and acts as if the Cold War was still going on.
This is quite idiotic comments of Velorex. Velorex is WW2 construction reused in 50ties due to high need for vehicles. It has a motorcycle base, 30kmh speed, tube frame with leather and plastic coating. It was driven like small and slow vehicle in town for personal use. It is essentially motorcycle with 3 wheels and bodywork and never pretended to be anything else. If you wanna great motoring - look at the masterpieces like Tatra 77 (firs aerodynamic mass-produced car in the world) a Tatraplan - Tatra 600, Tatra 603, or convertible like Skoda Spartak, or equally beautiful Skoda Octavia (old ones) . Skoda used to win and does till today Rallye in her category.
@@Metal-Possum You don't mess around with a Velorex in reverse. One little-known feature is that due to the engine and gearbox coming from a Jawa motorbike, they fitted it with a reverse gear that engages with all of the forward gears, not just first. So you can actually shift all of the gears in reverse, and a Velorex driving in reverse can beat a Porsche 911 driving in reverse.
Indeed, that was what he was relating to. But for example in czech (and we use kaput for broken too in spoken language), it also means "kapota", which is another expression for the bonnet.
@@martinhroch344 I did a lot when I was a small child, my granddad used it. I live near Mělník, which back in the days of the 30s and 40s was close to the Sudetenland and then the Third Reich, soprobably a fair amount of Germans in here.
This dude is such a hater. 3:33 He is driving a Chaika 13 which wasn't made in 70s but in the 50s.. This guy is such a hater that he even lies just to make something look bad.. pathetic.. Plus many Cars in the USSR were black as black was seen to be like a rich color for a car.. Like white for cars these days.. My grandmother said this.. 4:27.. It says Kapot which means bonnet.. which i don't see any problem with and i don't understand why he laughs.. Hes just soo bias i swear to god XD.
Okay ladas are not that bad. 30+ year old ladas with gas conversions and roll around till date. Lada nivas are actually capable offroaders and prioras are reserved for the russian ricers.
Tatra is the 3rd oldest brand in the world making models ahead of its time like a limousine T77 with a drag coefficient 0.22 (!) and T87 which was back in its days one of the most luxurious models. Even in commie days the T603 was a beautiful design and the last stand of the brand before being swallowed by the regime. The later model T613 was falling behind...
Why? It's slow, uneficent, loud, uncomfortable and didn't even have seatbelts until the late 80s. It was awful. A Moskvich 412 is superior in every way possible to the Trabant. Many Germans (including me) agree that the Trabant is awful.
@@woolly3603 Never believe the idiots who claim that the Trabant is a bad car, I hope you get the Trabanta of your dreams. In fact, they are of good quality, noiseless, smoke-free, fast enough and comfortable. But I saw 3 very smooth cars that are in very good condition and are hard to find completely refurbished. They were sold for more than 20,000 Euros. I think it's a car that deserves the best.
The Romanian ARO was good enough to be licence-produced by Western countries like Portugal and Italy. But of course we can't talk about that. It would ruin the narrative. ;)
He says the cars there will never be a classic car in the future hahaha. There are many classics from the cult classic to the sought-after classics, from the unique to the excellent driver. I guess it is a wrong guess :) :) Not so much, they will be more valuable after a while because none of them are alike, they are all unique and becoming rare day by day.
These depressing communist cars are certainly reliable and are still driving in large numbers, but GOD, are they underdeveloped and slow. These Communist cars are good in tougher lands but terrible on streets.
@@WarCrimeGaming If You compare them to western cars of the same epoche, they are not worse. Only that the western cars were further developed, while the eastern ones were produced unchanged for decades.
@@WarCrimeGaming So what you're saying is that you've never driven, or even taken a ride, in a Tatra. Because it's anything but underdeveloped and slow.
@@abbanta3002 Everytime I see a Trabant, Oltic or Polonez, it reminds me of the failure of the communist regimes in Europe, except Yugoslavia, which wasn't bad. These cars tell more than a thousand words about the communist Regimes in Eastern Europe (expect Yugoslavia and maybe Czechoslovakia), where the people had problems buying better cars or were forced to have these awful cars. Not just that, but in some of these the people barely even could afford basic things like food, electricity or water. In fact, the damage is still visible in Albania, Romania, parts of East Germany and Poland.
@@WarCrimeGaming These cars were good; what r u on about? XD.. USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia were great. i can tell that You know nothing about communism in Eastern European
@@abbanta3002 "These cars were great". What? The Trabant had a 2 stroke motorcycle engine, uneficent, was slow, sluggish, uncomfortable and didn't even have seatbelts. The FSO Polonez estate didn't even have back seats that could be folded up DESPITE being an estate. It also was rusty, slow and just awful. An dthe Olctit was like a Austin 3 - Litre awful in every way. Most of the communist continues were awful to live in. My Grandfather lived in East Germany back then and he constantly said that it was "awful or" hell in place".
This is a cell for suicides. Once in accident, the driver and passengers have poor chances to survive. Small weak engine with huge consumption and noise level with acceleration like in a lorry. Lada is a sort of a vehicle, you don't fell sorry, when something happens with it.
Typical western BS, mixed with English snobbishness. Arrogance + ignorance = easy laugh. You didn't laugh at the Velorex owner, (not if you had a morsel of decency in you), because they were handicap surviving war veterans. The construction was admittedly cheap, because it was based on the Jawa 250 cm³ motorbike. which got a steel tube 'skeleton' covered by vinyl leather. Still, it was functional, and the owners were thankful for the help. This vehicle was changed during the seventies to the Trabant Hicomat, which was a big step from the exigencies of the immediate post war period.
I didnt realise andy wilman actually presented classic top gear
Who the hell is Wildman
@@markedm fucking samsung keyboard thats who
@@markedm the co creator of the modern top gear and later grand tour format along with clarkson
He presented the 1977 TG I think for one year(2 series)
This Andy Wilman bloke's clearly got no future in car shows...
Luis Garcia r/woosh
@@dandagames6030 r/whoosh to you, op was being sarcastic
Wilman is the driver but somehow I can hear Jeremy Clarkson's voice saying the words. This might be the actual secret of modern Top Gear / Grand Tour. Clarkson is just the mouth piece with Wilman being the creative writing genius.
That's pretty much correct.
Sounds like Richard Hamond to me and a mix of James May
Yeah, I grew up to top gear. A Comforting bit of humanity through the ole black and white ten Ton Telly box I used to have in the bedroom...
There was this one episode I remember from when I was 11 Years old, and couldn't find again where I remember Clarkson doing a piece on cold war era cars, with a three wheeled Car with a Leather body, and he said atleast they were reliable, because they either worked and got you there or you froze to death if they broke down and stranded you.
Turns out I just had to use the right words I didn't think to use last time I searched, namely "Top gear cold war cars" Rather than What I used to search for, like "Soviet, Russian ECT"
Funny to see this so many years later and see it wasn't Clarkson doing the piece but Andy Wilman, and the whole body being Vinyl over a steel frame, though it does look like leather which is why I remembered it being a Leather car!
I couldn't agree more. If only he would have served steak that time...
Bothe Clarkson and Wilman have been close friends ever since their school days, so there you are then
I have a communist car just for the fun of it, it's something different. Quite ironic though, communist cars now cost a fortune but i suppose they did in Russia back in the day too... Socialism for all but those in power
These cars were the Nomenclatura's (Communist feudal overlords) joke against the people of the USSR and it's Communist empire. A globalist social experiment.
@@Isochest
So, Russia was always an Oligarchy.
It went through a series of rebrandings.
You can by a Volga for like 3k. Moskvich 2140 costs 3-10k
They say those cars never become classic cars in future and in background you saw a Tatra 603. Now 23 years after this video recorded Tatras are hot classic cars every famous car collector have one or want one. even I can`t describe Tatras as a communist car, their idea is from genius Hans Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker. Just sadly Czech and Tatra find themselves behind communist walls.
And tatra still exists it just make trucks now
yeah in the 90s they were worthless because in former communist countries people wanted modern cars and these old cars were sold on for basically nothing
Almost all of them are now cult classics. The spirit in these cars passes to the young people and their fans are increasing day by day. Servers were good at lying as usual.
@@TSL73 actually, I was the same idea but that was not true. They copied one particular thing but had their designs way before Tatra V570 was created. In 1928 they had small peoples car from Josef Ganz (but Hitler didnt want to support jewish inventors) so later they carried on with Porsche Type 12 in 1931. Even Mercedes had 130H model that was a small car but not peoples I suppose. The 1934 Mercedes 150H Sport Limousine had extreme resemblence to the VW.
Then later after czechoslovakian takeover they took the blueprints - but they were accused from 3 points which only 1 they actually stole.
On the other hand - all Tatra aerodynamic design came from german Zeppelin. Their design of Tatra T77 was kinda copy of John Tjaarda design from 1931. He didnt have any luck with US investors and no one bought his design. Until 1936 when it was re-developed into Lincoln Zephyr
2:11
An imperial russian music, which also contains the old imperial anthem, played in a parade of anti imperial soviet cars.
also contains imperial french music
I saw no USSR cars. Tatra, Zastava, Trabi are all from other Warszawa pact countries
Velorex is iconic and super fun to drive. I would compare it to the Morgan 3 wheeler in terms of the experience.
They are pretty hard to find and expensive nowadays, mostly thanks to the classic Czech movie "Vrchní, prchni!".
My communist Skoda Favorit outlived almost all post-communistic cars that people in whole street bought later.. and still works.
That Velorex, which is at the beginning was created as very cheap and simple vehicle for handicapped people.
Even now Skoda is not exported to Canada because of American export laws. Our VW's are assembled in Mexico, but Mexicans don't have a work-culture quality comparable to Germans, so the cars end up as shit (even though components arew delivered from Germany). But US does not allow us Canadians to import Skodas, even though we know they are cheaper and better than VW!
So the velorex is like the british invacar, we gave them to disabled people
It was most certainly NOT made for handicapped people. It was made for farmers. @@ambivalentonion2620
2:40 Tatra 😍
1968 603
those tatra 603s cost a fortune in todays world
Well, this is not really a fair comparison at all. First of all, Velorex is not a "communist car" - it was designed in the early 1940s and first produced in 1945 out of neccessity when material was scarce and car production was literally out of question in most countries. Secondly, its not a car at all in any sense: its a vehicle specifically for disabled people, cheap enough to be given out for free by the government to quadriplegics during the times of food shortages and economical crisis after the war. So its much like comparing an NHS wheelchair to a design chair.
I love that you have preserved all of this old episodes which otherwise will be lost, Wanted to ask you: How many tapes of old Top Gear episodes you have?
@AlexGRFan97 let us know when that is done.
@AlexGRFan97 well i am glad you are preserving history youtube is good for that, where normal people can preserve history that others won't touch or have forgotten about
summed up best in this
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/TH-cam
@AlexGRFan97 that’s amazing! Did you have a chance to post it?
A Polish builder I used to drink with sold his Lada Niva for a beer, the day he left for Germany. (I'm sure he would have taken the potato, if there was no other currency). That said, Tatra cars are amazing, second only to the Citroën DS
I do like how these motoring shows never and have never gone near the Tatra because its actually a properly good car.
It's one of the best cars ever built in czech
Vaz 2105 (and so on) are really good cars
Also the Warszawa is excellent car.
Bit stupid to call Comunist cars bad and hopeless even though most British Layland cars are the same or even worse. You go to a ex Comunist country and you will still se these cars on the road. They are quite robust. The same cannot be said about British Layland cars
Yeah, well British Layland was also run by the British Government. Lesson: Governments don't know how to run industries (any industry), and should leave that to the private sector. The thing about the private sector is that it MUST serve its customers. Government only serves itself, and almost never the customers.
A good idea to mention is that Chaika is an automatic. Which was a huge luxury anywhere in the world outside U.S.
It was based on a 30 year old Packard automatic transmission that was well past obsolete by the late 80s but hey.
@@MrWolfSnack Chaika was first designed and built in 1950s when Packard was brand new, not 30 years old.
This is a rather frustrating watch. The guy fails to actually talk about the history or conditions of the cars were made in and acts as if the Cold War was still going on.
Tatra 603 in back it’s brutal, V6 air cooled engine very nice! I think that tricycle was mean for disables and such, it was build by Jawa.
Tatra had an air-cooled V8, not a V6.
Wartburg 353 is quite a good car
This is quite idiotic comments of Velorex. Velorex is WW2 construction reused in 50ties due to high need for vehicles. It has a motorcycle base, 30kmh speed, tube frame with leather and plastic coating. It was driven like small and slow vehicle in town for personal use.
It is essentially motorcycle with 3 wheels and bodywork and never pretended to be anything else.
If you wanna great motoring - look at the masterpieces like Tatra 77 (firs aerodynamic mass-produced car in the world) a Tatraplan - Tatra 600, Tatra 603, or convertible like Skoda Spartak, or equally beautiful Skoda Octavia (old ones) .
Skoda used to win and does till today Rallye in her category.
At least Velorex has one genius engineering feature of one wheel in the back instead of one in the front like Reliant.
Yeah, so you can roll it over going in reverse instead.
@@Metal-Possum Also it has centre of gravity much lower...
@@Metal-Possum You don't mess around with a Velorex in reverse. One little-known feature is that due to the engine and gearbox coming from a Jawa motorbike, they fitted it with a reverse gear that engages with all of the forward gears, not just first. So you can actually shift all of the gears in reverse, and a Velorex driving in reverse can beat a Porsche 911 driving in reverse.
Kaputt means broken in German lol
Indeed, that was what he was relating to. But for example in czech (and we use kaput for broken too in spoken language), it also means "kapota", which is another expression for the bonnet.
@@AlejjSi I'm from Czechia and I've never heard anyone use the word 'kaput' for a car hood. But I can confirm that it means 'dead' or 'broken'.
@@martinhroch344 I did a lot when I was a small child, my granddad used it. I live near Mělník, which back in the days of the 30s and 40s was close to the Sudetenland and then the Third Reich, soprobably a fair amount of Germans in here.
@@AlejjSi Now I get it.
kapota in Slovak is car hood
0:38 he actually says "wow, what a doors, WHEELS, oh, it's real plastic!
What is the spelling of this car's name please? At 3:30
GAZ Chaika
I'd love to have an old communist car. One day, when I have a garage of my own...
Definitely obtain Tatra. Unique design, unique V8 air cooled engine, appearance of a limousine.
Well, they last long, very long.
After that tease I want to know what's on the 2007 episode?
Why ?
Velorexes are now valuable too
And not Russian - they're Czech.
Velorex is from Czechoslovakia.
Its based on Jawa motorcycle and i would love to own one!
Don’t You just feel the sense of comradeship in these cars? Beautiful...
The tatra is the most futuristic thing out of All of them
This dude is such a hater. 3:33 He is driving a Chaika 13 which wasn't made in 70s but in the 50s.. This guy is such a hater that he even lies just to make something look bad.. pathetic.. Plus many Cars in the USSR were black as black was seen to be like a rich color for a car.. Like white for cars these days.. My grandmother said this.. 4:27.. It says Kapot which means bonnet.. which i don't see any problem with and i don't understand why he laughs.. Hes just soo bias i swear to god XD.
3:21 gaz chaika
Okay ladas are not that bad.
30+ year old ladas with gas conversions and roll around till date. Lada nivas are actually capable offroaders and prioras are reserved for the russian ricers.
Can't break when there is nothing to break
In what country do they still drive lada's?
@@viktorshevchenko3888 Seen em throughout the CIS and some in Eastern Europe
I'm suprised that there is not any FSO's.
This would have been so much better if they had spoken to literally anyone from the post Soviet countries. This is so unbalanced.
Don't you dare take a piss on the Tatra cars! Those are stellar autos. 😁
Tatra is the 3rd oldest brand in the world making models ahead of its time like a limousine T77 with a drag coefficient 0.22 (!) and T87 which was back in its days one of the most luxurious models.
Even in commie days the T603 was a beautiful design and the last stand of the brand before being swallowed by the regime. The later model T613 was falling behind...
I love the Trabant 601, Deluxe.. it's my dream car.
Why? It's slow, uneficent, loud, uncomfortable and didn't even have seatbelts until the late 80s. It was awful. A Moskvich 412 is superior in every way possible to the Trabant. Many Germans (including me) agree that the Trabant is awful.
@@WarCrimeGaming Idk, I just like the little simple engine, The simple design. And it's all around a nice little car if you maintain it well enough.
@@WarCrimeGaming Can you reasonably explain why the Trabant sucks?
@@woolly3603 Never believe the idiots who claim that the Trabant is a bad car, I hope you get the Trabanta of your dreams. In fact, they are of good quality, noiseless, smoke-free, fast enough and comfortable. But I saw 3 very smooth cars that are in very good condition and are hard to find completely refurbished. They were sold for more than 20,000 Euros. I think it's a car that deserves the best.
I wouldn't want to daily a trabant but I would drive it for the novelty
The Romanian ARO was good enough to be licence-produced by Western countries like Portugal and Italy.
But of course we can't talk about that. It would ruin the narrative. ;)
0:40 That's why PORSCHE moved to eastern Germany right after the german re-unification.
The old Top Gear intro music was uniquely fire
not even a single 407
He says the cars there will never be a classic car in the future hahaha. There are many classics from the cult classic to the sought-after classics, from the unique to the excellent driver. I guess it is a wrong guess :) :) Not so much, they will be more valuable after a while because none of them are alike, they are all unique and becoming rare day by day.
I want a Lada or a Tatra so badly
Actually those cars weren't that bad in their time. I drove many of them.
These depressing communist cars are certainly reliable and are still driving in large numbers, but GOD, are they underdeveloped and slow. These Communist cars are good in tougher lands but terrible on streets.
@@WarCrimeGaming If You compare them to western cars of the same epoche, they are not worse. Only that the western cars were further developed, while the eastern ones were produced unchanged for decades.
@@WarCrimeGaming So what you're saying is that you've never driven, or even taken a ride, in a Tatra. Because it's anything but underdeveloped and slow.
is that car group still around today? i hope so it is cool when someone does something get a life like that.
3:30 Shocking truth!
A westerner talking about the USSR. Love that
5:00 Either that, or they saw what became of the “spare parts” they sent to Cuba.
4:28 and Canoe in Swedish lmao
3:38 bruh he just described capitalism
What about SAABs, Esprit and Escort Cosworth ?
Actually most Russians at that time had mechanics knowledge adequate to those cars. Ignorance is very cheeky.
Pirelli CINTURATO CA67s will fit nicely on the car at 6:03
Chaika means seagull in Russian. That car is build more like a bear than a seagull.
Yeeaaah, boy!
Dzis is a Rushian seagull, Russian seagulls eat bears! :D
The travelling comfort likes a seagull, because it like flying on the road. 🙂
Song 6:30
5:40 volga with latvian license plates :)
I saw someone who had a trabant and a lada niva
At least the czech Veloreifen doesn’t have the single wheel in the front, like Bond and Reliant.
Velorex made in Czechoslovakia
Tatra made in Czechoslovakia
I know a guy with a velorex. the engine is being rebuilt right now
Good, original shape velorex would be today same worth as us specs Chevy camaro
So ... no FSO Polonez ?
FSO Polonez, a depressing, underdeveloped and terrible car, yet very far away from being the worst...
@@WarCrimeGaming Where are u from ?
@@Lucas_07-PL Germany.
@@WarCrimeGaming Then why do u have Romanian communist dictator as prof. pic. ? Just asking tho .
@@Lucas_07-PL Well, I think the picture fits perfectly for a PFP.
If someone is trying to reveal the faults of others, it is to hide their own faults.
at least our cars lasted
That's true
These depressing communist cars are still driving in large quantities.
@@WarCrimeGaming how are they depressing?
@@abbanta3002 Everytime I see a Trabant, Oltic or Polonez, it reminds me of the failure of the communist regimes in Europe, except Yugoslavia, which wasn't bad. These cars tell more than a thousand words about the communist Regimes in Eastern Europe (expect Yugoslavia and maybe Czechoslovakia), where the people had problems buying better cars or were forced to have these awful cars. Not just that, but in some of these the people barely even could afford basic things like food, electricity or water. In fact, the damage is still visible in Albania, Romania, parts of East Germany and Poland.
@@WarCrimeGaming These cars were good; what r u on about? XD.. USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia were great. i can tell that You know nothing about communism in Eastern European
@@abbanta3002 "These cars were great". What? The Trabant had a 2 stroke motorcycle engine, uneficent, was slow, sluggish, uncomfortable and didn't even have seatbelts. The FSO Polonez estate didn't even have back seats that could be folded up DESPITE being an estate. It also was rusty, slow and just awful. An dthe Olctit was like a Austin 3 - Litre awful in every way. Most of the communist continues were awful to live in. My Grandfather lived in East Germany back then and he constantly said that it was "awful or" hell in place".
I have never seen this material.
❤
👍
Don't know how many times I've watched this
what did andy fear for the worst?
we may never know
Lada is not bad
This is a cell for suicides. Once in accident, the driver and passengers have poor chances to survive. Small weak engine with huge consumption and noise level with acceleration like in a lorry. Lada is a sort of a vehicle, you don't fell sorry, when something happens with it.
Typical western BS, mixed with English snobbishness. Arrogance + ignorance = easy laugh. You didn't laugh at the Velorex owner, (not if you had a morsel of decency in you), because they were handicap surviving war veterans. The construction was admittedly cheap, because it was based on the Jawa 250 cm³ motorbike. which got a steel tube 'skeleton' covered by vinyl leather. Still, it was functional, and the owners were thankful for the help. This vehicle was changed during the seventies to the Trabant Hicomat, which was a big step from the exigencies of the immediate post war period.
Velorex is make 1943. And this time ww2 Czechoslovakia is not east europe. After ww2 this car make for handicap people.
I wonder how many of the cars featured in this episode were also featured in the new Top Gear's bit about commie cars...🤔
Funny thing though. These cars will outlast literally everything German auto industry have to offer today in 2023.
But people won’t bash our country just because the Chevy Nova sucks. But a poor country makes an ugly car? They go right on hating lol
Saw a Wartburg estate on the road Yesterday, first Commie car I've seen in years!!
Much better than a raliant.
This car..it's like watching horror movies
You missed, some Chinese car as well, BYD, Yutong, Geely, Hongqi,Chery,Brillance
They talked about European Communist cars
@@WarCrimeGaming oh..
@@alpzerlaken Still, good that you mentioned the Chinese ones
@@alpzerlaken don't forget saic
2:15
It’d be nice to have more info and less dim witted rhetoric.
Кто с пазний иж?
Фан факт: в предложку это кинул я
17 May 2010
Anyone who spells the name ‘Phil’ as ‘Fil’ actually does need sent to a forced labour camp.
Great Value Jeremy Clarkson
keep postingg❤
Sipping on a moletov cocktail
😂😂it comes with its own missile launcher
velorex jawa 350
⚙️⚒️🌾🚩☭ 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Anything without Clarkson & his little helpers is better.
*worse
Who in their right mind would like to buy a car worse than the lada
It feels weird when you can't understand your native language
Marx was a hero. How dare he
No, he isn't.
Wtf is that accent, why is he talking about wheels but subtitles says about windows.
The policemen's language even doesn't sound like Russian 😂
It's some caucasusian accent, armenian/georgian most likely.
'Communism is when you manufacture cars to be sold as a commodity under a system of generalised commodity production' - Karl Marx