10 Communist Cars Western People May Not Know About

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@VisioRacer 7 лет назад

I like the Volga, it has such a beefy sound. Thanks for watching, wish you a great day!

@xabierbilbao3974 7 лет назад

you re awesome thank you

@stephen9869 7 лет назад

Which country are you from??

@VisioRacer 7 лет назад

I come from Slovakia, Stephen

@KH-pt4un 7 лет назад

That Volga sounds much more better than those 60s-70s American V8s, by the way nice vid mate!

@Maxx2k8 7 лет назад

The engine design was based on a Ford Y-block though.

@StrangeQuark 5 лет назад

not only can the 126 carry 4 people, but 4 people can carry the 126

@joeaccordion 5 лет назад

LOL LOL

@topdrives538 5 лет назад

So true

@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 5 лет назад

But can 4 people carry the 126 with 4 people in it?

@tripwire4727 4 года назад

Who, I wonder has a wrench?

@juippi420 3 года назад

funny story, at the time of when i am typing this you can see the fiat 850 in my profile picture, when my mom got her license and started driving the car to school in the late 80s a group of boys lifted the car up in the air, rotated it and almost landed my mom a parking ticket. and then theres the story of my dad's gym teacher, he and his friends lifted his datsun 100a on top of a huge snow pile and the gym teacher couldnt drive the car before early summer.

@veli-pekkakultanen2353 5 лет назад

As Lada Club member of Finland, I know, Lada will never stop running.

@fee9687 5 лет назад

“Other honorable mentions include the following 37 Škoda’s and a single Dacia.

@szymon940 2 года назад

@Romanian presenter What's that got to do with communist time Dacia?

@railtrolley Месяц назад

Dacia looks like a re-badged Renault 12.

@MTNDEWGANG 5 лет назад

Imagine a v8 volga running down the street, chasing down a 26hp trabant. lol

@williambeglen4771 3 года назад

There is a volga v8 swap American 5.2 on youtube.

@daledavies2334 2 года назад

Lada also copied/reverse engineered the rotary engine. There was 2 and 3 rotor models mainly for KGB use. Only problem was they did their usual and cut corners to save money, so they were not as reliable as the Mazda engines. Also they had a smaller single or 2 venturi carburretor.

@michaelkelm3579 7 лет назад

If only the Skoda 1000 MB had 24MB more, then it'd be a Skoda 1GB

@computernerdinside 7 лет назад

Glad I'm not the only one who's mind went there XD

@illdeletethismusic 7 лет назад

the consensus of programmers and manufacturers was for using binary as the basis of the units, until a pretending to be nongovernmental organization decided to rename the consensus units, and make the units with the previously agreed on name smaller, and get this passed as a government imposed standard internationally so, 1024 is the correct definition, unless you are a bureaucrat

@michaelkelm3579 7 лет назад

I'd always thought that the computer determines each unit (B, KB, Etc.) in multiples 1024 whereas marketing defines it as 1000, which is why the computer always displays less disk space than what's written on the box

@NLS87 7 лет назад

Only windows uses 1024MB = 1GB, the normal is 1000MB = 1GB, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android uses that, Windows is the minority compared to those OS.

@michaelkelm3579 7 лет назад

I didn't know that. I use both Windows and Mac, and I've never thought to check the capacity of anything in both. That's interesting.

@janbojarski004425 7 лет назад

That Bakelite Motor Wagen made me laugh so hard XD. In Poland we used to call them Ford Karton

@szlatyka 7 лет назад

Hungary: Paper Jaguar.

@konyina 7 лет назад

Jan Bojarski Serbia- Pig Food

@WolfRock89 7 лет назад

Polski Fiat in Hungary: Mouse Camion

@iordachenicolaev 6 лет назад

The Oltcit did not rust easily, My dad's Oltcit rusted after 20 years, 5 of which it sat outside and was no longer driven. And the engine was one of the most reliable among all the cars in the video. It's only reliability problem was with the mechanism that controlled the spark plugs. They addressed that with an electronic controller. It was as simple and as functional as they could make it. It was an air cooled boxer4 with a surprisingly nice sound and a redline at 8000 rpm and could go to 10.000 RPM. The engine used a 2 step carburetor. It had no servo and the disk type brakes and steering never failed. It was a 2 door and the rigid structure of it made it one of the safest cars under the iron curtain. The rigid body also made it a lot more nimble that any commie car. The controls on it were up to par with west European cars of the 80-es. The car could hit 150km/h and that was amazing for any of the cars in this video. Fuel consumption was directly tied to the way it was driven. Eco driving made it use about 6-7l /100 km outside of towns and 10-11 in town. Aggressive driving made it use over 13-15 l/100 km.

@legeekdechepaou411 4 года назад

So your dad's oltcit has been blessed by a volvo ?

@LocalAutist 3 года назад

Fuel consumption is obviously tied to how you drive it, have you never owned a car? 😂

@MrMoskvichok 5 лет назад

Where is Moskvich? :))

@vladimertsuladze7635 4 года назад

Moskvich is stronger than the smaller car Zaz

@vinogradsky 4 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G2-gfzA91rM.html VAZ 2108

@user-lg8rp4fq9f 4 года назад

Cosmich!

@vladimertsuladze7635 3 года назад

AG exe en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAZ_Zaporozhets

@juippi420 3 года назад

moskvitch 411, elite and 412 were legends

@PomaranczowyKroI 7 лет назад

Maluch used to be the most popular family car in Poland (5ppl + luggage and we're going on vacation cross the country) Now prices of Polski Fiat are incredibly high. Great vid!

@mokrebuty 7 лет назад

Poldek driver...

@davidtoth8975 7 лет назад

Is it high everywhere? Was thinking of getting one. Love the look of it.

@PomaranczowyKroI 7 лет назад

depends, good one in great shape will be expensive (13k PLN +, 3k euro +) but it;s possible to find a cheaper one. PM me if u want some more info, i can help

@GrimFaceHunter 7 лет назад

It's popularly called "Peglica" in ex-Yugoslavia. It means little clothes iron.

@Shelby-fq3eh 7 лет назад

I remember when you will able to buy a Fiat 126p for about 100zł, which about 25 euro. This car is a crap, but i guess it was worth couple of dollars. Definetely not worth 3k euro.

@bslay4r 5 лет назад

Nice list. Here in Hungary in the 80's Lada, Trabant, Wartburg, Polski and Dacia were the most common. In our eyes the Skoda was already a "western" car, not many of that were running here. You left out the Zaporozhets, the Moskvich and the Zastava.

@melonkat4703 3 года назад

@TheZemun 5 лет назад

And where is ZAPOROZHAC ?

@alanmalan3819 4 года назад

It created in Ukraine by groop of ukrainian students

@Mr.CredOo 4 года назад

@@alanmalan3819 No USSR

@racingenraged8019 3 года назад

@@Mr.CredOo Ukraine was in USSR dumbass.

@0866aikon 6 лет назад

8:00 i laughed so hard to that hybrid guys face :DD

@Punisher9419 7 лет назад

I think this is one of your most interesting video's. I remember a Skoda joke where they put the engine in the rear because when it broke down and you had to push it the engines heat would warm your hands up.

@jezztech 7 лет назад

Your talking complete bollox, the only reliability issues were VERY occasionally overheating, the Skoda models of this era were of a genuine Czech design and highly contemporary, Skoda, s of this era never had any serious reliability problems, which if you had one you would know.

@shaneheffernan1293 7 лет назад

Kuddlesworth NA your thinking of the yugo

@szekelygergely711 7 лет назад

Actually overheating was a common issue, everyone new that skodas are boiling the coolant. However, this was not an inherent flaw: the real cause was the poor maintenance, for the long pipelines and some other factors, the cooling of rear engined skodas is very sensitive, and most owner just never changed coolant fluids, or simply mixed tap water. While other commie cars tolerated such negligence quite well the skoda did not, as the formation of lime and rusty gunk in the radiators and pipes hindered cooling performabce noticably. However, with proper maintenece this is never an issue: the system is actually absolutely not underengeneered: Rapids, Gardes, and even LR replicas tuned well over 100bhp, paricipating in historc rally events are usually running with their stock radiators, without any problem...

@jezztech 7 лет назад

What your actually saying is that without regular maintenance the skodas would overheat?, my S110r coupe overheated once! rear mounted radiator belt driven fan, My 120L overheated once! front mounted radiator electric fan, tubes going underneath to rear, I had my vehicles serviced regularly, when the 120 overheated it was in winter time and my garage advised me to let the car warm up completly before driving off because the coolant in the front radiator could still be cold whilst that surrounding the engine could be warm forming a thermo bloc, might have been "BS" but took this advice and it never happened again, the S110r just simply overheated after having driven about 2 hundred miles then becoming stuck in a traffic jam, stop- start etc, and couldnt get the temperature down, I dont call these serious issues, rather unfortunate incidents with mitigating circumstances

@datadaedalus2216 7 лет назад

I had 4 rear engined Skoda's in my youth; 2 x 1984 Estelles and 2 x 1988 Rapid Coupes. Let's be clear, this design did NOT have an overheating problem. This would only occur if the cooling system developed a leak and air bubbles were in the cooling pipes. Replacing leaking hoses or otherwise sealing any water leaks and successfully refilling the system with coolant usually cured the problem. The design was prone to water leaks as it got older, but this could usually be prevented by replacing all the original solutions used for tightening the hoses. I'm happy to say this worked a treat, and made most of my Skodas immune to water leaks. This was a car whose water tank you checked everyday - just in case. And yes, I often carried 2 x 2 litre bottles of water on both sides of the engine compartment - just in case :-)

@ramimsd 7 лет назад

We used to have the Volga as Taxis in Iraq, and they used to have the V6 engine, were highly sought in urban areas as their suspension was considered to be tough and durable on gravel.

@koyotekola6916 5 лет назад

Rami-Al-Mudafar Could they handle running over IEDs? Now that's rugged.

@paveantelic7876 3 года назад

@@koyotekola6916 better question, can IEDs handle volgas?!

@flugjung 5 лет назад

Excellent video! No cheesy music, just cars and their sounds! I like your English too! I know it is a personal video but i missed the Dacia 1300 (it was more iconic and known than the Oltcit/Oltena) and the Moskvitch 412. Keep on making more of these videos. Greetings from Mexico

@wetbaloney 6 лет назад

What about the Chaika: it looked exactly like a 1956 Packard.

@GhostOfDamned 3 года назад

O I forgot about that

@wetbaloney 3 года назад

@@GhostOfDamned It's what all the top level party hacks drove (or more often were driven in). I saw a real nice one in a Moscow parking lot.

@Cypress_green 7 лет назад

"You wstern people may not be familliar with these cars, so let me show you what models were popular on our streets"-then shows a BRZ drifting hahahaha

@VisioRacer 7 лет назад

The BRZ is from the east too!

@Cypress_green 7 лет назад

VisioRacer Yes it is xD

@bignobit905 7 лет назад

no its GT86 ... wait... its FRs

@breebw 7 лет назад

Yeah, I was thinking, shit, they were really ahead of their time. They had this, while our family had the Hillman Hunter.

@sonyviva308 7 лет назад

The Western from the far East. :)

@smitbar11 5 лет назад

My grandfather had a 'Moskovitch' in the 1960's/70's, it was a rare car here in the UK, as were most Soviet made goods, he had a Cistrad Soviet radio too. We could buy Zenit camera's and they were pretty good, reliable and cheap 35mm film cameras, and Soviet USSR made

@Duececoupe 6 лет назад

Has to be one of my favourite videos, of those that you've made so far, together with the one about Utility Vehicles....one of my best pals back in my old country of Sweden, used to own a Vaz estate and a Lada 4x4.....

@jakubbielu4850 7 лет назад

I'm glad that you mentioned maluch and syrena on this list. My family had a few maluch's and my grandfather had a skoda 100 :)

@jakubbielu4850 7 лет назад

thanks fo the heart :) and I forget to say that maluch's are quite popular in my area even nowadays

@Frittrich 7 лет назад

Dude what about Lada Niva. It is still a very popular car today. I drive one and I know at least two other people driving one here in south Germany

@VisioRacer 7 лет назад

Another day in another video :)

@mihkus 7 лет назад

Part 2 would be nice.

@DeeZeeGR 7 лет назад

Knospe Yeahhh dude still here some ppl use them for the mountains and for other offroad activities

@finntastique3891 7 лет назад

Yeah, it is a really reliable no-nonsense off-road vehicle. I've seen numerous Lada Nivas in Switzerland of all places! There they have enough money to buy whatever car they want to.

@eliaskasdorf3485 7 лет назад

bei mir im Dorf fahren 3 Stück rum. sind hier auch gar nicht allzu selten haha

@lexus8018 Год назад

Fun fact: The Škoda 1000 MB and it's counterparts were infamous for overheating, caused by the radiator being sandwitched between the back seat and engine only being cooled by two side wents. To remedy this the 105 moved the radiator to the front, insanely increasing the ammount of coolant needed in the car that caused it's heater in the winter to be almost useless since it used the flow of the coolant to heat the cabin. And due to the long cooling tubes it whould take ages for all the coolant to heat up. Also the Trabant's heating was done by a shroud that was wraped around the exhaust pipe, and used the airflow of the main ventilator to blow the heat into the cabin, so if the exhaust happened to crack (which it did) you had a quick ticket to co2 poisioning

@drinkpimptea 6 лет назад

I’m from USSR, a part of which now bacame Kazakhstan. We had a chery VAZ 2106 and beige VAZ 21063 Zhigulis, which will always be in heart, as part of childhood. VisioRacer, you rock. Not many people along exUSSR who are not as into cars as you (and me) are, would know many of these cars from other Eastern Block countries! Thanks a lot

@GG-nl8xy 7 лет назад

Greetings from Hungary!!! Awesome video, well done Visio Racer.

@HAPKAH 7 лет назад

Greetings, a man from the land of Ikaruses ;)

@mlynto 7 лет назад

Where is Zaporozac and Moskvitch? I grew up in ex-YU and Skoda was the most reliable car, Zaporozac was the cheapest, it was ugly but one needed only 6 month salary to buy one. Polish Polonez was good too. Domesticaly made Zastava was piece of crap. We had lots of overpriced British, French and German imports as well. The worst in terms of reliability was British made Austin, then German NSU Prinz breaks down after a year of driving, and French cars were comfy but you don't want to drive it too far. Anyway, the narrative is that eastern cars are bad but Skoda is way better than majority of western cars. Russian Lada was just as good as Skoda but for some reason more expensive.

@DecaturCentaur 7 лет назад

Don't understand why British cars get a bad rap, it hasn't been my experience.....I've owned a 1974 Triumph TR6 since 1983 and a 1989 Jaguar XJS since new. The TR6 had a new starter in 1986 and new tires in 1999. The V~12 Jaguar now has over 200,000 miles on it and runs and looks great....only real problem has been the GM supplied air~ conditioning, the passenger side electric window stopped working for a few weeks in the early '90's, but fixed itself and has worked fine ever since. I have regretted only one car, a Porsche 911S, sold it at 36,000 miles, truly a horrible automobile, it ran for only 2 months out of a year, and cost a fortune to keep up(plus it was to complicated to work on it yourself). BTW: love the Soviet and E. European cars, being from the S.E. U.S.A., I have never seen one in person.

@jamesbensch6 6 лет назад

DecaturCentaur they used to be common here in Canada. We had Ladas, Skodas, and of course Yugos. Lada was the fastest growing automotive brand in Canada during the 80s but by 97 the left our market. You still see the odd one but most have been scrapped

@TheWolvesCurse 6 лет назад

Fićo is life!

@Ralf5595 6 лет назад

zaporozac and moskvic is a skoda

@MidnightSky69 6 лет назад

mlynto no the Zastava was not crap at all! Actually in its era it was almost like a western car, way above the average eastern car standard!

@sato4kaiba 6 лет назад

That's one sweet bassline sound for your vid. Nice cars, very informative. Thumbs up xD

@lalalala7708 6 лет назад

Volga is a cool car! Thanks for the neat video on these cars not well known here in the West! Love seeing car guys all over the globe! Thanks again!

@davidpetrovski6503 7 лет назад

my dad had a green lada 2104 wagon with a v8 289 swap that we did together

@RGV2300 7 лет назад

SLRR Builds god... that's my dream, since i saw that video of a lada with a rb26dett inside.

@ruscool7 7 лет назад

If your not lying could you please show me this beast!! :D Big Lada Fan!!

@mihalydenes2716 7 лет назад

I have a Lada 2106 with 1.6 engine. I want a V8 swap but the car worth so much with the stock engine that I can't allow myself to do the swap.

@thepumpkingking8339 7 лет назад

Back in the mid 1990's one of my friends Dad had an old LADA-1200 in a lime green colour, he paid £50. for it as the old guy who had it from new had died . We always took the PISS. With it being a Lada and all the rest. But also because it had a starting handle hole in the bumper. But 95/96 was a COLD winter in South West Scotland ( By Our Standard's ). A time when a lot of modern cars of the time would not even start let alone be able to drive, in the frozen snow. He got his own back as he drove past us all with frozen not starting modern car's.. I must ask him next time I see him. What happened to the LADA 1200.

@thepumpkingking8339 7 лет назад

Lada

@maxmustermann-ie6ic 7 лет назад

The Pumpking King Its russian, of course it tolerates cold :-)

@yrasphong 7 лет назад

Geo Stana lol

@raychang8648 6 лет назад

Very interesting video! Subscribed. I love the sound of those 2-strokes!

@pivkemrzli2297 6 лет назад

great video! takes me back in time when i was a kid, some cars that our family owned are in the video too :) but you forgot to include some Zastava models. they were quite popular and would fit well with the theme of the video.

@weiwu1442 7 лет назад

ladas are very popular on Cuban roads thanks to the Soviet alliance they had

@borderex9993 7 лет назад

Definitely, I was there during winter.

@helvihautala9267 7 лет назад

Kris A Lada made a great commercial about how tough it was.

@donaldschmenk4345 6 лет назад

Oh yez! I will bring one back to the us

@robertnicolae1882 7 лет назад

This video is more about Skoda than the other communist cars

@copperhammer 7 лет назад

None of these cars is a winner by a long shot, but the Skoda would at least come in 3rd in a 2 horse race.

@Rebelxfree 6 лет назад

Thank you for uploading this video. My coworkers enjoyed watching they come from Masadonian, Serbia ,Bulgaria, Bosnia, Poland . They spoke highly of the Volga .

@NIKOLAP7 3 года назад

In my country (Macedonia) during Communism, the Volga was the car of for the important people. For the regular people the Zastava 750, Zastava 101 and Zastava Koral (Yugo) were the most popular. FIAT 126P was also common. If you had a bit more money to spend you could had Zastava 1300 (FIAT 1300) if you could afford to run it. There were also Trabants, Wartburgs, Lada, Skoda. My late great grandfather used to own Skoda 1000 MB.

@royledford5673 5 лет назад

Another excellent video, VR! Thank you very much. I have always enjoyed the Western "orphan" cars, owning something common has never appealed to me. My Grandfather once remarked, "Dayum, Son...everything you got is oblong or obsolete!" That was 40 years ago : )

@LachinSerdarov 7 лет назад

simple is the best

@Petidani0330 7 лет назад

Before the start of the first Hungarian Grand Prix in 1986, which has been written to the F1 history as the first Grand Prix on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the legendary Ayrton Senna had an interesting task for the organisers: he wanted to drive around the circuit with a car, that an average Hungarian citizen had in that time. So they gave him a Lada, and he pushed the hell out of it for that one lap. :D

@timbecile7006 5 лет назад

Haha I'd like to see the second car, the Skoda, or the Trabant do that!

@TheRichardSpearman 5 лет назад

Rear engine cars, eg Skoda (and also Renault, Tatra, etc) have always had a bad press, mainly for poor handling. Yet F1 cars are all all rear engine, rear wheel drive,.

@drawingboard82 6 лет назад

I came here because of Spintires! Nice list of cars, only seen a few of them. A friend of mine had a ZAZ 966m but I didnt see that on your list and dont know anything about them :-)

@beadsman13 6 лет назад

Where is AZLK (АЗЛК) aka Moskvich (Москвич или Московец). From where do you come from? Cuz most popular car here in Bulgaria was Lada/Zhiguli and Moskvich. We had Moskvich 408. In winter months just put 2 sandbags in trunk and you have snowmobile :)

@pasivaan9563 7 лет назад

Great video. Lada 1200 0:10 was a good car. It was a real winter car. It started well, it was warm, it moved well in the snow. It was simple, easy to fix, cheap. Okay, it was not Mercedes, but it came from place A to place B

@MichaelFay63 7 лет назад

Second only to Wolkswagen in sales. Very good car!

@rvbrexer 6 лет назад

It was basically a Fiat 124, I'm surprised he didn't say it in the video. Are most of you eastern people unaware of this important fact?

@jwserge 6 лет назад

We the Russians know it from our birth ))) And now i got the best car - the Lada 1500 (VAZ 2103) and i am happy like a baby )) This car has not only engine, body, heater, nice decoration. It has the JOY!

@doge2483 6 лет назад

It is vaz 2101

@swissmade4200 6 лет назад

now its real drift winter car ;)

@morrismckinnon6047 7 лет назад

You forgot the Moskvitch 412 and the ZAZ 968 Zaporozhet. The Moskvitch sold very well here in the UK and saw successful rallying in the 1970's. The Zaporozhet was probably the most unreliable car ever made due it's engine being fitted with timing gears made from fiber! It was to reduce engine noise but being made of fiber the gears would shed teeth from being softened from leaking oil rendering the car completely un-drivable. The British Ford V4 engine had a fiber timing gear which too made it an unreliable engine.

@nikadim3972 6 лет назад

Morris McKinnon some Zaporozhets still in use by some hipsrers in Ukraine. it's air-cooled V4 is undestructable pice of crap :) it's never works good, but it always works.

@one_step_sideways 6 лет назад

They say that if you want to drive to your friend's house, buy a new Zaporozhets and it would be a one-way ticket.

@ahuman9143 6 лет назад

Morris McKinnon my grandfather owns a 968 zaporozhet from 1994

@Petroilhead 6 лет назад

you should speak correctly: Zapor

@Petroilhead 6 лет назад

zapor means disease when you cant shit, but trying

@menju32 6 лет назад

That sound of the GAZ 24 Volga....awesome.

@aryehyehudahajzenberg9503 6 лет назад

Dude... I loved this video.... Man... You made me happy.... I wish my late father (of blessed memory) was here with me to watch it ! My father was a car dealer in Brazil and a very big car fan.... He would havbe enjoyed it ! Thanks !

@5zym3k67 7 лет назад

You should include FSO Polonez as well

@ANDREWSAMY562 7 лет назад

Cadit quaestio wasn't it the car that Jeremy Clarkson called it the worst car in the world?

@kamil707 7 лет назад

Andrew Samy Yes, this car was already in Top Gear :)

@8Hshan 7 лет назад

Cadit quaestio And Polski Fiat 125p (later renamed FSO 1500), and Lada Samara, ZAZ 966, Tavria, Zastava 750, Zastava 1100...

@Adrian90GT 7 лет назад

I had Polonez Caro+ 1.6Gli "97 One of my favourite cars. Had 76 hp, rwd no ABS, very simple car but not bad by any means. I had it 7 years, until 2015.

@camillopesce1694 7 лет назад

Wlasnie sie mialem pytac gdzie Porucznik ;)

@MegaCARS2000 7 лет назад

Eyyy, hello from Romania! Your chanel is one of my favourite. Good luck with your chanel and I wish many more people will subscribe to your chanel!

@Yoni-G 6 лет назад

Great work, showing those who never visited behind the Iron Curtain, the motor scene there. Some of the models were sold in England in the 1970s as "low cost" alternatives to the West European models. Among these, the Warburg, the rear-engined Skodas, and one you did not mention, the 4-door saloon and station wagon Moskvich. In Israel, many Russian immigrants in the early 90s brought the Fiat 124 style Lada with them.

@Zen_atm 4 года назад

"On our streets" *soviet anthem plays*

@TiborRoussou 7 лет назад

I enjoyed your video. I only recognized a couple of these cars. My brother owned a Lada, but it wasn't a crank start! Thank you for sharing and have a great day :)

@tomaskusnir2374 6 лет назад

I think the export models were more refined and had features that domestic market cars didn't have. This goes for many of the eastern block cars

@fartsovschik 6 лет назад

Latest LADAs havent crank start options. I have 2107 made in 1996, it cant be started by crank.

@emanuilnedqlkov206 7 лет назад

what about moskvich tho :( i even have one

@marko2993 7 лет назад

Em ...or ZAZ?

@renetnk 7 лет назад

Many of them missing, but he cant make half hour video.. :P

@kOSTb19999994 7 лет назад

Москвичи хорошие тачки, только сильно ненадёжные :)

@emanuilnedqlkov206 7 лет назад

mines got 470k kilometers on it so i think it is reliable enough (used google translate for your comment)

@marko2993 7 лет назад

AirBasSvk Yeah, but he could've added a pic in the end. They were common cars.

@pconstad8674 9 месяцев назад

Really no need for forced “Closed Captioning”. We hear in the West have the option to turn it on if needed. Thanks for the Great Video’s ‼️

@davidporowski9512 6 лет назад

Amazing Variety of vehicles from behind the Iron Curtain. GR8 Video. Thanx for sharing.

@finno123456 7 лет назад

the skoda 130 was not a bad looking car at all but as soon as skoda made the newer type before vw the design got ugly even skoda back in the 50s and 60s where beautifully designed cars

@MArcin91 7 лет назад

8.00 two hybrids car and syrena. It fits perfectly there :D Where is fiat 125p and polonez?

@grebo121 7 лет назад

My fav part of the video! >:D

@peterkiss1204 7 лет назад

It was a hybrid. It went on 50% petrol, 50% hope. :D

@johnlannigan9831 6 лет назад

Great video, what version of Life Could Be A Dream is that playing right at the very end?

@catjudo1 6 лет назад

Hell yeah, I'll subscribe! I've not seen many of these cars before, and I definitely didn't know that the Volga was ever built with a V8 (that the example shown sounded like a small block Chevy at a stoplight just made it that much cooler!). I want one now, and I REALLY want one of those Tatras, as I've never seen anything production with a rear mounted V8! That is just badass, though I can imagine how twitchy that car could get with that rear engine... You missed one though (and I'm guessing it's because it's hard to find one). Zil! Because any rich slob can ride in a Mercedes...

@PlayingRulezz 7 лет назад

as a skoda 120l owner, i enjoyed watching this video! keep it up pal!

@HunterShows 7 лет назад

I could watch this and listen to this accent all day.

@jhni1 6 лет назад

I had a Lara and it went like a rocket and never used a drop of oil. The problem was the vacuum operated wipers that went slower the faster you were going. Great video

@AtomicElectronCo 6 лет назад

Wow! I drove one LADA when I was in Slovakia...I had NO IDEA you could hand crank it. The 1000B is so cool. I don't know why....but I love it! I drove a Skoda 120L for 5 years when I was in Bratislava before finally buying an Opel Astra H.

@compressionreleasetechnolo4847 7 лет назад

Your videos are always very well made and very informative. You are right about one thing: I had no idea these cars existed. I was surprised to see European fascination with 2 strokes.

@NenadTrajkovic 7 лет назад

You are missing Aro, Zastava,IMV{Novo Mesto) and TAS(Sarajevo)!

@bencelaczko9123 7 лет назад

nah, thats yugoslavia

@badatdota2811 7 лет назад

Still communist.

@hornoaca 7 лет назад

Thx for saying ARO(random romanian)

@matic7830 7 лет назад

also Citroen models were made in Yugoslavia ( Slovenia)

@NenadTrajkovic 7 лет назад

Matija Urbas true in cimos in kopar,my father drove cimos Citroen ami 8

@Mark-nu5vg 5 лет назад

Haven't been on in a while good to be back

@Murmundone 6 лет назад

"Altough a piece of heavy cast iron was an essential modification to keep the rear end stable" I'M DEAD

@jody024 7 лет назад

This list is very interesting and it was cool get a small insight into your family history.

@dragosditu2176 7 лет назад

Please do "10 Of The Most Popular Eastern Motorcycles Made By Communists" next.

@sergeisharov710 7 лет назад

Just google it 1. Иж 2. Ява 3. Минск 4. Урал 5. Восход 6. Сова Don't forget to add мотоцикл to each of these words.

@szlatyka 7 лет назад

Well there's also Jawa, MZ, Simson, Pannónia, and Danuvia/Csepel - to add a little multinational vibe to this.

@militianulpulii9218 7 лет назад

Mobra...from Romania...

@bluesharp59 6 лет назад

I will say some of those cars are actually pretty cool.

@walterkersting1362 5 лет назад

bluesharp59 Cool in the way long bread lines are cool.

@bluesharp59 5 лет назад

@@walterkersting1362, I would never buy one though.

@walterkersting1362 5 лет назад

bluesharp59 my dad had a fiat 128, or whatever it was that was the equivalent of the Russian lada, but it had electric starter not crank. Not too bad a car but depressing to look at. Negative points cool factor.

@addiehernandez8255 5 лет назад

@@bluesharp59 they got character though, I would buy one.

@bluesharp59 5 лет назад

@@addiehernandez8255 Cool i will say.

@AlessandroGenTLe 6 лет назад

Nice one mate! MY father, here in Italy, had to buy a Skoda after he built the house in 1975 (money went in the house). He was actually HATING it, but still I've good memories about that car :) Thanks for showing us this world that, here in the so called "western world" was really unknown for us until a couple of decades ago.

@ExBroSeeYou 7 лет назад

Fiat 126... In my country it´s called Peglica xD

@AggroJack94 7 лет назад

In soviet russia cars drive you

@KH-pt4un 7 лет назад

AggroJack94 Those cars drives you into accidents or even some mysterious places LOL.

@taron-armanKasparyan 7 лет назад

Predator XR wtf are you tolking you can't say that every car out sovjet russia is bad

@KH-pt4un 7 лет назад

I am not meaning to say "bad"

@taron-armanKasparyan 7 лет назад

Predator XR no but you reference to bad

@Kanc1erz 7 лет назад

Hah, u forgot about "crazy" :D

@eigensinn83 6 лет назад

Wheeee... that takes me back. Thanks for the vid! ^_^

@rvip8746 3 года назад

7:57 Fact that hes revving nice old and smoky two-stroke between two hybrid cars👌

@peterattilakriszt3150 7 лет назад

We shouldn't forget about Zastava 311 alias Yugo, Zaporozec (ZAZ 968M), Warsawa, Polski Fiat 125p - Lada like -, Aro, Moskvits, Tavria,

@HazedLiqz 7 лет назад

The Volga sounds like a Ford Flathead

@yungfishe 7 лет назад

Chase Watkins And produces half the power sadly lmao

@HazedLiqz 7 лет назад

compared to flatty? A 3/4 race flatty tends to only make 180whp.

@gdfhds970 7 лет назад

Chase Watkins I agree they sound similar and both have low compression ratio so the power output is quite low but they can run on low octane fuel. I'm not sure but i think volga engine is pushrod not flathead.

@ScaryMetalGuy 7 лет назад

It was basically powered by Ford Y block V8, which Russians adapted for their low-quality gas. They had to, the sticks were clogging the carburetor :-)

@theq4602 7 лет назад

That's why I suddenly thought "ford flathead" as soon as one was shown. Well at least I now know where to get good parts for a rebuild.

@alexbiro262 5 лет назад

I grew up loving most of these cars as a youth in Hungary. Thank you Visioracer for this video, you should do a video on the Zuk and IFA vehicles and trucks at some point

@jeshkam 6 лет назад

My dad owned the Fiat 126 "Bambino" (export version as far as I'm aware) in a beautiful sky blue color. Each year we used to travel from where we lived in the south of Poland to the Polish seaside (around 635 km), we had a bit of stuff in the frunk, some lugguage on the roof plus a small trailer, Niewiadow N250 with the majority of our lugguage. There were four of us and our dog in the car. You may believe it or not, this Fiat broke only once en route (minor issue with the brakes, which my dad fixed in no time by himself). Those were the most enjoyable and fun trips one could imagine, we had a lot of space in the back, my dad got a proper Sharp cassette/radio player and we used to listen to our 1980s mixtapes with Robert Palmer, Robbie Nevil or Hall & Oates. I swear no amount of money or no luxury car could ever match that experience...

@jhassett2 7 лет назад

The Tatras look very cool....The Syrena is cute too...I like the Volga.....Lots of Skodas on the road in Ireland when I was a kid.Funny how they seem much prettier now than they did then....We had Ladas from the 1980's onwards...We also had Polski Fiats and I seem to remember a few Polonez too...

@ZerokillerOppel1 5 лет назад

Same here in Holland only more Lada's in the seventies.

@wtrdogg20 7 лет назад

Very interesting video!!! I really liked it!!!

@dosbox907 6 лет назад

I love how all the fancy v8 cars were meant for higher ups. it just goes to show that no matter what system. equality is only for the poor being equally poor to each other.

@philmoseley2259 6 лет назад

Everyone is equal, but some people are a little more equal than others

@oiartsun 5 лет назад

Or, you know, maybe just allocate the more powerful cars to those who actually need them. Why exactly does the average person need a V8?

@hermanmunster3358 5 лет назад

Exactly, communism is designed to suppress only the working classes, and prevent them from moving onwards and upwards. Hence why communist countries stagnate, because nobody has any wealth to stimulate the economy. Nobody that is, apart from the political bourgeoisie, who filter off what wealth there is, into Swiss bank accounts.

@hermanmunster3358 5 лет назад

@@oiartsun Well by your logic, V8's shouldn't exist at all. Because NOBIDY actually NEEDS a V8, do they? Its all about having the FREEDOM to choose. And if an ordinary working class Joe can afford a V8, then why shouldn't he/she have one?

@dario62589 5 лет назад

@@hermanmunster3358 They are perfecting it on China, where you have comunism to oppress the people, no free speech, no questions allowed, work 24hrs a day for cents and then invade the world with your low production costs products thanks to your liberal economy. Comunism for the people liberalism for the corporations that's the NWO dream.

@NorthernChev 7 лет назад

Bakelite-Motor-Wagen! Fantastic! I laughed so hard.

@pedrogallegos9545 6 лет назад

NorthernChev WHAT'S so funny?? I guess you laugh at ALL the 1960s version cars...... YOU TYPICAL WESTERN STUPID ASS. ...

@joonavalkonen3077 6 лет назад

Pedro Gallegos stfu commie

@michaelkovac2524 6 лет назад

In Turkey too ....

@slavomir8045 6 лет назад

The Trabant was cheapest car for peoples (only outside panels were from Duroplast) , in France was also produced cheap car the Citroen 2CV

@user-ro5ho3yd3d 6 лет назад

listen, pedro, the dude's laughing at the name and how poorly the car performs.

@irocket 7 лет назад

What about Zastava and ZAZ?

@obinator9065 7 лет назад

Boner Johnny didn't Yugoslavia had communism too?

@libed91 7 лет назад

Yes we had a communist system but were not a part of Eastern block since Tito didn't want to be Stalin's little bitch.

@Mirage2000H 7 лет назад

It was preferred to be called as "socialism". From a market perspective, nearly the same thing.

@cedavelja6120 7 лет назад

Ma nemaju oni pojma sta je Fica, Stojadin, Jugo i ostali!

@durodrkafon3569 7 лет назад

ja znam staje .....sranje!

@zovanyiattila3558 6 лет назад

Thank you mate it was good to see these cars! We have a lada samara from 1989 still rolling strong

@edmundkonkolich8743 5 лет назад

Cool vid, interesting info! I really didn't know about some of those vehicle's existence. OK, I was aware of the Trabant badge/name & how truly sad they were, but the fact that there were even SADDER examples of "communist cars" that were produced had me taken aback. Cut 'n' glue is one thing, rusting on the assembly line would seem to be worse in my book. The Fiat, I know, is actually what eventually became the Yugo here in the States. My fav joke on them was, "Why did they put a rear window defroster on the Yugo? . . . To keep your hands warm when you had push it during Winter!" I DO remember one of the Yugo print ads published in car mags touting something to the effect that they "made sure to ship over plenty of spare/repair parts BEFORE delivering any assembled units for sale". This, so they wouldn't have to wait for parts to be shipped & be prepared for good customer service in the event you needed repairs. Yeeeeeeah. . . right. If there's ANY group of American voters that would have ONLY ONE SINGULAR REASON to resist the DMC in general, but ESPECIALLY their shift to socialism & its INEVITABLE evolution into communism, it would be. . . THE ENTIRE CAR COMMUNITY! Everybody from the cr*p/bullsh*t spewing ricers & posers, to hardcore builders, to design & engineering geeks should realize that this list is EXACTLY what we'll have to choose from if American goes down that route.

@Petruuccios 7 лет назад

Really nice video. Maybe you could upgrade the summary with other popular cars. I miss some of the popular 4x4 models like Niva, GAZ69 or AroThere were many more than 10 unknown models built over the 4 decades, until western brands bought our national factories.Actually some of those you mentioned for sure could be known to western people, because they came from the west and were build here in license. And many others were exported.Like Lada 1200 (VAZ 2101) which is modified italian Fiat 124 (which has won car of the year 1966 in the western press).Fiat 125p, Fiat 126p are polish clones of italian Fiat models 125 and 126Dacia 1300 is licensed Renault 12

@BalintStefan99 7 лет назад

Bro where is Dacia 1410 Sport? 1.4 64hp

@Darx97 7 лет назад

Emanuel TheGamer o aruncat și Dacia aia la final ... am așteptat să o vad in videoclip mai in detaliu ... meh

@andrebalance6889 7 лет назад

Emanuel TheGamer. Anybody selling Dacia 1300. Platec sa trimiteti in America.

@user-s1o3nr532 6 лет назад

Good video. The Volga looks fantastic!

@ssmusic214 6 лет назад

Another side of owning a car in USSR never mentioned was maintenance and repair. Cars were very low quality and required lots of it. And in USSR it was horrific nightmare. That was the reason I never wanted to have a car in USSR seeing what hell all the car owners I knew had to go thru. In the fall of 1974 my friend offered me a ride from Yalta, Crimea to Simferopol Airport via mountain road. He was going pretty slow making me worrying about missing my plane. After top of the mountain pass when the road went 20 something km downhill he slowed down even more and his car started sounding strange, like no other car I heard before. I caught my plane OK and while thanking him for the ride I mentioned him being very careful driver. He explained: "My brake pads are completely worn out and I can not find new ones anywhere! Even on black market! So..... I was going 20+ km DOWNHILL thru the MOUNTAIN ROAD in a car with NO BRAKES.

@crankshaft7270 7 лет назад

Great video! keep up the good work!

@BIGBLOCK5022006 7 лет назад

I am not sure if they still have it but there is a fella here in Jackson Michigan that has a Trabant. They would take it to the Downtown cruise nights and people would stop to look at it.

@stuartwilkie4887 5 лет назад

The UK got many of these cars in the 1970's. When I was a child in our first house, our neighbour had a yellow Skoda 110. In our next house from 1977 there was a guy four doors up who had a yellow Moskovitch 412 eastate. On the other side of the cul-de-sac was a man who had a navy blue Wartburg 353. A friend of mine had a blue 1988 FSO 125p. He took me home in it once. It was comfortable to sit in and had a good heater. It met its end when the wind caught a heavy gate and slammed into it while he was driving. He drove it for a little while after, but soon got rid of it. While at Uni, a flatmate of mine had a white Yugo three door hatch. I believe it used to belong to his mum, and it was very well looked after and never broke down. I believe the Moskvitch was an official import for a time, but the FSO and Lada as well as the Yugo were available for many years. I collected brochures, and believe it or not have these three makes represented there. In 1993 the cheapest Lada "Riva" was an inexpensive car in Britain costing about 4,500 pounds. I liked the fact it had a warranty and I'm sure it would have lasted well if looked after properly.

@shenghan9385 5 лет назад

It starts to rust on the production line... Hahaha. I love that one.

@johnwayne8114 7 лет назад

Oltcit had some issues, but it's also true a lot of owners AND mechanics didn't really know how to keep them in top shape. Plus the usual 80's / early '90 manufacturing budget shortages. Despite that, it's really NOT a bad design, and some series were better than others. The newer design Citroen flat four engine combined with a lighter body would make it somewhat racier than the Dacia at the time.

@sasjadevries 7 лет назад

9:19 Nope, 'they' didn't use cast iron to keep the rear end stable. The KGB had some heavy (radio) equipment in the back iirc, but after the cars were sold to ordinary citizens, they obviously removed that equipment. And people just filled that empty spot with a weight. --- By the way the GAZ 12 13, 20, 21, and zil cars are also worth mentioning... Although they were not a 'popular' car.

@napalmv8356 7 лет назад

V8 power!! ;)

@rdallas81 Год назад

He said they put weight in the back. You said they put weight in the back. Same.

@sasjadevries Год назад

@@rdallas81 Well I said they put useful weight in the back. I.e. there is a difference between putting weight in the back to fix a bad suspention design, and adapting the suspention to match the weight that's been planned.

@lochlannach9256 6 лет назад

I am from Western Europe, and apart from Syrena and Olcit all of the mentioned brands were present in my country. Especially Skoda Lada and the Polish version of Fiat 126 were popular. And frankly, I don't think cars from the communist part of the world were any worse than the cheaper vehicles from Western Europe, when you compare price tags. But back then, when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, the japanese began to take over the market here because they were able to combine low prices and higher quality. But that's a whole different story. Great video, btw

@razman8241 5 лет назад

I love, that you always use your own intro instead of some random guy's one.

@parvezsheikh8387 7 лет назад

Good work. Keep Going ✌😉

@nexoq4914 7 лет назад

Finnaly u made video like this :)

@nexoq4914 7 лет назад

+rep ,ello VisioRacer ,ur fan from Estonia :)

@VisioRacer 7 лет назад

Hello, buddy!

@kennethjanczak4900 6 лет назад

Nice😊, thanks for making this video and sharing it..

@nicoladeval8187 5 лет назад

I thought the Oltcit was based on the Citroën Axel as in fact they both share the same engine (4cyl from the GS/GSA rather than the 2cyl from the Visa). Anyway sorry for bothering.

@szekelygergely711 7 лет назад

Nice, tho this show was a bit too Czechslovakia-biased. A few more car should've been included, like the Moskvitch, ZAZ, Yugo, Dacia, ARO, FSO...