As an American, I got to see a Tatra in a museum of modern art as part of a “cars are art” exhibition and it enamored me. The Czechs really know how to make a pretty car.
It’s way too hot out so I’ve already watched these but it’s fun 🤩 But yeah watching funny entertaining educationally historical accurate videos is just awesome
A friend of mine bought a Skoda in China in the early 2000s. I sat in it when the car was about 10 years old and it was in very good condition. At a petrol station I got a chance to see the engine: AUDI.
I think that it's fair to call the Skoda still "Czech" even if it's build on Volkswagen chassis - afterall, Porsche copied Ledwinka's initial design for the Beetle, and even was born in Bohemia. They used our knowledge back then, we use their knowledge RN :D
as someone that loves car museuns across europe i must say tatra musuem was one of my favorites! its really surprising to see the variety of machines and inovation that company had/have(?)
Praga didn’t close entirely, they also made industrial equipment (train transmitions etc) and trucks, such as the famous V3S. After 1989 it slowly went bankrupt, only to be revived somewhere around this time with the first ever czech supersport Praga R1R, which is also street allowed
I really enjoyed this episode, I was vaguely aware of Tatra and Skoda but didn't know much about them beyond their Cold War history. I enjoyed it so much, I'm not going to make some dumb joke about the aliens who sold R2D2 and C3PO to Owen Lars.
This will mean nothing to you - but - your opening music .."jingle".. was used by radio stations in America in the 60's. Every time I hear it I think WCFL (Chicago)
Now i have a rather a long story to tell, so bare with me or skip the whole comment! My wife had some work history in Prague before she started her university studies. She had connections, so we went on a honeymoon to Prague. This was in 1997. We desided to take a little road trip from there to Austria, Germany and back. A frend of a frend's frend knew a local small car rental company. I didn¨t speak any czech, my better half doesn't speak mutch automobile and my german is rudimentary at it's best. The very good man at the rental office didn't speak any english. Perfect! Things however worked out an before we even noticed we werw driving Skoda Favorit towards Saltsburg. At the beginning of the trip Favorit could hardly keep up the fearsome speed of 110 km/h (65 mph) at a freeway. I was adamant and kept the right foot down whenever occasion appeared. At the last leg from Munich back to Prague i managed to reach 160+ kp/h (100+ mph) on a german autobahn. The engine had burned all debris out from its internals and was working perfectly! But just before we arrived Munich the oil-pressure warning light turned on. I pulled on a service station, took a look at the dipstick and bought a litre of oil and filled her up. She was ok and we coud continue. The next day when we went to return the car i tried to tell the rental guy i was worried if the engine was somehow damaged, becaus it ate so much oil. The guy didn't understand at first an thought i was only asking money back for the oil i had bought. Soon enough he understood that i wasnt't in for any kind of compensation, i was only worried about the engine. His face lit up in a broad smile and laughed: "Ah, Favorit!!!" The oil consumption was typical for this engine type... 1l/1000km or 1 quart/600 mi. Happy ends!
Dude, you managed to forget the best thing about the Tatra. That "small V8" was in the rear AND entirely air cooled. An absolutely unhinged engine concept.
Yes, because Czechoslovakia used left-hand traffic up to March 1939. Switching to right-hand traffic wasn't Nazi ocuppants decision, as 99% people think. They just sped up (5 weeks) implementing of Czechoslovakian parlament decision from November 1938.
I would never want a Chinese car but they have so many brands over there I wonder how they stay in business. I would like to see a video on them. They are after all the worlds biggest auto market but not any well established world players. Interesting position.
Fanfare Ciocarlia, that Music is as old as me and I thought obscure enough that I would never hear it outside my own Stereo. My Mother actually banned from listening as it drove her mad.
10:38 Just learn that yugoslavia was a part of soviet block, interesting news, probably US was not informed about that fact, because they sold 150 US F-86 Sabre fighter planes to the yugoslavia back in the 1950. Otherwise a nice work, additional maybe interesting ad from me: After WWII Ledwinka junior come to the Austria in company Steyr Puch in Graz. Which was established as a Puch bicycle company back in the 19th century, later become a motorcycle company and also the only truck suplier for the austro hungarian military in WWI. After the death of the founder Johan Puch (slovenian nationatality) the company merged with the Steyr company. Anyhow Ledwinka junior was responsible for development of very capable off road vehicles like Puch Haflinger and later Puch Pinzgauer which great off road capabilities was also the reason why Mercedes Benz decided to gave company Styer Puch development of the first 4x4 Mercedes car known as Mercedes G in Austria and some other coutries also known as Puch G. That company is since 2002 know as Magna company
Would probably be tough to research this one. Lots of subtle differences on Canadian produced models if you know what to look for, but most models at least look similar to better known US, and Japanese models. Some European cars were once assembled here, Volvo being the best known. We did have some special versions of foreign made cars including Volkswagen. The original Beetle was sold here in a "Canadian Custom" version that was lower priced than the common Deluxe Beetle, and was a very different specification to what was sold in the US and Europe at the time...
try philippine car industry e.g. sarao motors, i am interested on how "jeepneys" are very hot then but because of safety and emission standards, they were phasing out each and everyone of them, don't get me wrong, they were still plenty of running jeepneys in the country but most of them are released in the between 70s and 90s and will only let time to die them off one by one.
In Poland, the Škoda 1000MB was notoriously hard to fix and prone to breaking due to … Ekhm lackluster communist quality, and it became known as “skoda 1000 Małych Błędów”, which means 1000 small errors
While I personally am not a Czech citizen, I do feel there could’ve been a footnote for the times Skoda took their cars rallying. While they weren’t the fastest, they still showed up to international events, with notable examples in the Skoda 130 LR, 130 RS, and Octavia. There was even a car developed for the stillborn Group S, the proposed replacement for Group B rally. The prototype went on to race in rallycross (iirc). While not that important, it’s still interesting to note.
@LLM Kursk Well said, Mr. Kursk!. Your allusion to "the stillborn Group S" was particularly enlightening, though I'm imagining that the "prototype [that] went on to race in rallycross (iirc)" was some aberrant growth on the carcass that somehow had a heartbeat beyond the burial of the host? Or... The engineering group just said "F**k it, let's enter this test tube anomaly in some races!"
A good point. Skoda did exceptionally well rallying, despite having a very tight rallying budget and low-cost family cars. Skoda regularly won their class in the RAC rallies, had a very high completing percentage, and often beat much more powerful vehicles.
If I ever possess "f**k you" levels of money, the Tatra T87 would be at the top of my list. A true mechanical marvel with a bit of maleficence added for flavor! Chief designer Hans Ledwinka, an Austrian weirdly enough, penned the bodywork in 1936 with this flowing, zeppelin-esque fashion for one reason: low drag coefficients. In fact, with a rating of 0.36, it had a record that stood for several decades! The distinctive fin on the rear of the car (which is reminiscent of a shark) was placed there in order to force air onto the sides of the car when it is in motion, thus helping to keep it stable on the road. At least, that was the idea. It soon earned the nickname “the Czech secret weapon” by a few clever pundits as so many Nazi officers were killed by the T87 during WWII that the Oberkommando (high command) of the Whermacht eventually had to ban its officers from driving it. Der Teufel! The power delivery system in the T87 certainly did not facilitate exceptional road manners either. It had a 2.9 liter air-cooled V8 with a 90° cylinder bank mounted in the rear underneath a massive cowling worthy of a dirigible. With all 85 horsepower being sent directly to the rear wheels, the handling issues I waxed on about are a lot more palpable. However, this engine and car is still brilliant due to how unyieldingly efficient it was. The T87 was competing against luxury machines with more than twice the engine volume, and yet, it was able to cruise smoothly at nearly 100 mph (160 km/h) with an equally impressive fuel consumption of up to 18.8 mpg. This did not go unnoticed by other manufacturers. In fact, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was so heavily influenced by this car (which lasted until 1950) and the later T97 for the iconic Volkswagen that he was sued by Tatra. It was a protracted battle with many legal and moral pitfalls, but eventually, Tatra prevailed in 1961 with three million deutschmarks in compensation. Such a lofty position could not be maintained indefinitely, however, and Tatra ceased car production in 1999, although they do still make heavy trucks. Quite a fall from grace, yes?
There is a yellow and white one that I see at all the big classic car events. The best event to see it driving fast is the meetup in the 1st weekend in September every year in Zbraslav, a suburb of Prague.
The Tatra had started as producer of railway carriages, locomotives and motor coaches (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ČSD_Class_M_290.0), so I would not call that fall from grace, especially as it had retained that unique design which outperforms most, if not all, other trucks in ability to go through terrain.
then buy Tatra 603 or 613 from 8000 euro you can have, 30 years ago they were almost for free, there is also Felicia from 60' and not many people know, prices are growing
I went there about 10 years ago. You could still see and feel the communist era in the subways and the buildings which after the fall of the communism they slowly started to rebuild. We should take our jackass socialist scumbag politicians and send them on a field trip but .....Cuba would probably be more fitting at this point. Czech Republic is a beautiful country and very innovating. It's just that 40 years of communism set them back 100 years. No worries, they will catch up.
The Czechoslovakian automotive industry is such an underrated subject. Lots of innovative and advanced ideas before falling into Communist rule. I'm a huge fan when I learned about Tatra and of its history.
@@jannadrielcervo7753 The Czechs are intelligent people and innovating. They've proved this through history. Communism is for stifling innovation and above all competition. Once you kill competition and the ability to own property or invest.....why bother innovating? Same thing happened to Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and the rest of the Eastern block countries. Truly sad. Now in America is WOKE and they want us to think that everything is free and everybody is equal. I call this BULLSHIT !!! Nothing ever was or will ever be equal.
@@zongihangi11 Gotta tell you, even though you just described utopia, I still wouldn't want to spend a day in a communist run country. I like being rewarded for my effort and live my life the way I want to. I also want to feel free and enjoy good things in life. I can understand why people wanted to escape from East Berlin.
This is the best thing this year so far! Thank you! Minor correction tho, Czechoslovakia didn't become ČSSR until 1960. Only thing I missed was that you could've said more about Favorit, because it was the car that saved Škoda, wouldn't be where it is withnout it.
That is right! When Volkswagen was looking for some cheaper carmaker in ex comecon countries, they look at their latest products. Almost new Skoda Favorit (switching revolutionary from rear engined 120L to front wheel drive) was modern, well made and technically pretty advanced for poor country possibilities. Compared to Polish Polonez dated to 60", horribly made Romanian Dacia already rusted at production lines and problematic Oltcit (developed by Citroen, but they will forget it). Even Tatra 613 was technical masterpiece: DOHC belt driven distribution, aircooled V8 3,5L/4,4L over (not behind) rear axle, design by Vignale Italy, etc. But yes, when presented on the market in mid 70". After 20 years of production and velvet revolution it was horribly obsolete and poorly equipped - compared to Mercedes-Benz S class and BMW 7 not attractive at all. One notice, Tatra was one of the first carmakers in the world, that is valid also for trucks, of course after Daimler and Benz companies in Germany. Second notice, Laurin and Klement is now Skoda-Auto. Long history short: Laurin and Klement need money to make company greater, so they agree to, in those times already big Skoda company, to hide under.
Škoda was a big conglomerate making a lot of things from cars to locomotives, power plants, steel and manufacturing machinery. It was divided up into a number of different companies, the best known thereof are green Škoda Auto making cars, belonging to the VW group, and blue Škoda Transportation making railways, owned by PPF, a Czech investment group. They both share the same name and winged arrow logo, one in green and one in blue, but have no other connection to each other. By a mutual agreement they can use the same brand in their respective market segments for an unlimited time. A czech friend of mine used to have an old rear-engine Škoda car, which was great at making noise and smoke, but not powerful or comfortable. I felt rather peculiar in it. But today Škoda cars are known for making most of the platforms the VW group has to offer. For example the Octavia is based on the same platform as the VW Golf, but offers more space, more features. Likewise the Superb makes the most of the same platform the VW Passat is using.
The Skoda Works have been split up after being nationalised after the war in 1945. Later, when communists took over, the companies got some true communist names aswell. The original Pilsen Skoda works received the name ZVIL - Závody V.I.Lenina (VI Lenin Works), the car manufacture in Mladá Boleslav was called AZNP - Automobilové Závody Národní Podnik (Car Manufacture National Company). After the war, both companies shared the same logo, but since 1994, when the Skoda Felicia was introduced, Skoda Mladá Boleslav had to use a different logo, which was changed slightly and the green leaves around it were added.
I would say more, there is song about Jawa bike made by 90-s russian punk band Sektor Gaza (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JF8umGJiaGk.html)
Greetings from Czechia. Thanks for great, great video, I have just one remark - I think you massively underestimated the importance of Skoda Favorit. Favorit ain't just something between 120 and Felicia, Favorit is the car which saved Skoda. Yes, its design was bit to square for the time. Yes, interior is plain and cheap. Yes, its OHV engine was dated. And there were more flaws. But car was roomy, it had fine handling and good value for price, so it was somehow competetive with western car production. Moreover "party and goverment" put some serious investments (in terms of ineffcient planned economy) in its production, meaning whole production factory in Mladá Boleslav was considerably modernized. I'm quite sure that if there was no Favorit, Skoda would share the fate with e.g. Polish automakers - it would be bought by some western company to produce their models but it would end as a brand.
I agree, he is painting that chapter a bit too dark. When this thing came out we looked at it and exclaimed: "OMG that looks like a western car!" The eastern block had nothing quite like it until then. Me, from East Germany would also not say that noone wanted a Skoda and that they were the worst. That title DEFINITELY goes to the awful 2 stroke, basically 1950's tech cars that the GDR still made at that point. Having a Skoda here, and even having a 120 put you miles above the average. And I fully agree, the Felicia proves that the Favorit was a solid and modern enough platform to work from. Only Skoda had that.
@@catriona_drummond I had a '94 Skoda Favorit GLXiE estate in 2003, it lasted until 2010 when structural corrosion and coolant getting past the wet liners made further repair uneconomical, i used to call it 'The Tardis' after the BBC television sci-fi series 'Dr; Who' which features an intergalactic time machine of that name which was much bigger inside than outside, that little Favvy could haul an incredible amount of stuff. It was replaced by a 1.9 SDi Felicia estate which also gave excellent service until the dreaded 'tin worm' sent that to the 'Showroom in the Sky'. I then bought an '05 Fabia which was basically a re-badged VW Polo but lacked the character and practicality of the two previous Skodas which I think of as 'proper' Skodas!
More people have commented on this, so my sincere apologies when I regard some cars as a simple footnote in the grand scheme of things, while they turn out to be major turning points in history!
And was designed by Bertone, well-known from other brands like Citroen and the like. Made as hatchback, Forman stationcar, Pickup and the odd-looking FormanPlus. Engine up front, and value-for-money...
My family have had 7 Skoda's. The first was a new Felicia Estate in '96, and I remember neighbours joking at the time why my dad would buy such a brand. Skoda jokes were popular in Ireland/UK as Czechia was still turning things round after decades of Communism. Today I have a '21 Octavia sitting in my drive, my fourth in fact, and in Ireland Skoda is a top 4 manufacturer by sales, and the once popular jokes are well and truly buried.
In the early 60s my dad had 3 Skoda Octavia's, they were imported to San Francisco. A college student at Berkley had them and got them to Wash State where my dad ended up with them. One was totaled and was a parts donor for the other 2. Dad was a great mechanic and was able to keep them going into the early 70s. It was a odd little car...no one had a clue as to what they were. I drove it quite a bit as a kid...it had 4 on the column. One can be seen identical to it in the movie North by North West with Carry Grant. In the beginning of the movie Grant gets into a red and yellow for taxi. In the rear window shot you can see a Skoda Octavia following them through the streets of New York for a bit, its the same gray color with blue bottom trim. The old man always said if we get invaded by the USSR they will think he is a good Comrade and will not send him to a Siberian slave labor camp. I had a VHS tape of the Hitchcock movie and won a lot of bets betting that no one could name the car following them ......no one ever won the bet. I swear he had to have the only Skodas in the country.....well most of them anyways.
base of old octavia (1200) was exported to New Zeeland where they were making Skoda Treka firstc Skoda suv, never made anywhere elso, definitelly not in our own country, this car is also supposed to be only one car produced by New Zeeland - as a country, we are saying and using our houmour, Skoda Felicia and Octavia were advertised in early 60's with miss of the USA ! - somebody heard she was travelling and she was in the moment in CSSR then immediatelly took cars and asked her with taking few pictures with it there was also limited vagon version of Octavia inside almost like van, bigger,like your chevrolet or chrysler (7 seat big car) this has only one big door, in our country were long in production for health system purposes, suprisingly emergency lights and sound buttons on dashboard =are betterg made in this old the new cars new Octavias are technically liftbacks os vw golf /A4 with different look, by same slovakian designer who made Bugatti Veyron, this is what i know
I'm afraid there is not much to talk about comparing to Czech. There were no successful, game changing, very solid or bravely designed Polish cars. No wonder - when Czechoslovakia was developing the industry, the Poles have fought the Soviet Army and tried to rebuild the country after the war. And then the second war and communism came.
Development of the Favorit drove Skoda to bankruotcy, it was styled by Bertone, Porsche developed the engine mounts and Ricjardo Engineering in the UK designed the cylinder head. It was a very popular budget car, and in 1993 gained fuel injection and side impact bars. The Favorit killed Lada sales in the UK, as it was almost the same price as a Samara, but better made and better equipped, and thanks to Bosch efi, compliant with emissions and mire reliable than Lada’s electronic carb. The Felicia put the nail in Ladas coffin, with the likes of tge 1.9d, handy estate and cube van, and even had models with leather interior, heated seats, air cobditioning erc, all for less than the cost of a second hand Ford Escort
Tatra is such an interesting company, you forgot to mention the MTX V8 supercar, also their trucks are not just good, they're amazing, at one point you could get an air-cooled Biturbo V12 diesel, and all of them have to this day independant suspension
I wanna seize the means of production, I accept xD Talk about Argentine car industry, it'd be great to listen a crazy dutch talking about the Rastrojero
L&K's bike looked nice. I have always like the looks of the Tatra 77 - something truly innovative. Too bad more manufacturers wpuldn't have been willing to stap out. Thank you Ed!!
Very interesting video. Skoda make great cars today. I was always fond of the 1970s-80s rear engined Estelle and Rapid. They were actually one of the best Eastern Bloc cars sold in Western Europe.
Nice video! As a czech citizen and petrolhead, I can tell you did your homework. Some details are missing (you would need like 1h video to make the whole picture with Tatra trucks and Skoda prototypes etc.), but you actually catched the essentials right and avoided some local automotive urban legends.
Heey! My family's first car was a Škoda 1000MB. That was well before my time, but I think I still have its engine head laying somewhere. PS: As for Škoda being a laughingstock of Europe's car industry in the early 90s - you haven't driven a Polonez, or one of the terminal-stage R 12 derived Dacias, have you? It was solidly near the top of the bottom shelf in the post-combloc countries, the alternatives were even worse. Far, far worse.
Great episode, as always! I thought you would talk a bit about the '90s Czech supercar, the MTX - Tatra V8, but I understand it's very rare (4 or 5 units ever made). I ask you again: please, please make an episode on the Argentinian car industry, including Turismo Carretera. Greetings from Pergamino, Argentina 🇦🇷.
old Tatra 613 are only one 4 door luxury sallon cars with rear V8 engine on the world, also it is aircooled ,latest version more than 250 kmh speed, no power stearing no power brakes no airbag
13:05 a bad boy like that with the exact green colour was the first car I ever rode in. We had it until I was 5, swapped it for a brand new(at the time) Octavia. I remember being blown away by the motorised windows(in the front only) when we got it, that felt like something a spaceship would have.
The Felicia is a rust bucket especially the back lid. On the other hand, the Favorit is actually pretty rust resistant. The older Favorit is more likely to hold up, but the Felicia is junkyard fodder.
It’s because communist cars were designed to last forever whilst western ones whilst better are designed to last around 10-15 years as they want you to buy a new one
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Not really, most of the soviet cars had a projected life of 7-10 years. They just made them easy to service and overbuilt some things because of the floating quality of parts.
My grandma's first car was a Jawa Velorex, and I gotta say that has to be the worst car in the world. Still hoping to hear more soviet history in the future btw, no one knows shit about modern Lada!
The only decent modern Lada is the Vesta. It's not that special though. It started as a project with Magna, from Magna-Steyr. But it was shelved because of the 2008 financial crisis. So they continued making the Samara 2, 110 and Priora. Then, when they were about to collapse, Renault bought them. I think it was mainly for the factory, to make more Logans and Sanderos, but anyway. So after some time, Renault gave AvtoVAZ some money to finish the project, but with that they also changed some parts to their own, to streamline the production. So the result is 80% Lada, 20% Renault. I don't mean that it's not a good car, it's very good for the price, but it's a bit of a mix of this and that. The REAL issue is the powertrain. The main 3 engines (1.6 106hp, 1.8 122hp and the sport 1.8 145hp)are just updated versions of the 80s Samara engines. They have reached the limit of the block design. The 1.8s have issues with oil consumption because of the sub-optimal rod/stroke ratio. And the gearboxes are also from the Samara, just one more gear and a few other minor changes. Not that the Renault gearbox used for the sport model is that much better. The only issue with the russian ones is the whine. They are reliable, but quite noisy. Other than that, the Largus is a Logan MCV, the XRay is a Sandero and the Granta is an updated Priora which is an updated 2110, which is an updated 21099, which is a 2108 Samara with a boot. Yeah, the platform was ran through a CAD software and was strengthened and whatnot, but it's still based on a 50 year old chassis(Development of the Samara began right after the beginning of 2101 production) Now, with the Renaultlution plan, there will be no Ladas, just Dacias with Lada badges :(
Oh, by the way, the Renault takeover has an element of irony to it. When they were testing foreign cars to choose with which manufacturer to talk, the R16 was the favourite. But due to the strong italian socialist movement, they tried Fiat first. So it's a bit like Renault taking what's theirs. But I still think its assholish to take a whole manufacturer and reduce them to just a brand :/
Trading without a professional guide?Huh! I laugh you because you will remain where you are or make more loss that would even stop you from trading, this has been problems with new traders..
The Favorit, whilst a bit cheap and cheerful, was reasonably well built and had some neat, practical, engineering touches making it very easy to work on. I ran one for some time and it was an alright motor as was the Felicia that followed. Tatra still make some great commercial kit.
It’s just that having lived twice in Trnava for two different car projects (C3 Picasso and the current C3), I feel some weird connection to that strange TAZ that, for some unknown reason wasn’t branded as a Škoda…
Tatra’s were unofficially known as “The Nazi Killers” for years. They were prone to oversteer with all the weight being in the back, and I’m sure there was a fix for some of that. But hey “accidents” happen especially at high speed
The first gen of their current models from the late 90’s (Fabia, Octavia and Superb) are legendary. Like a lot of 90’s/00’s cars they’re the perfect mix of just enough electronics to simplify your life(electronic windows or adjustable mirrors) and simple enough to maintain at home without the need to go to an authorized service because your car’s computer decides something is wrong with it. And they had replacable radios, meaning they’re basically infinitely upgradable.
It's Škoda, but I give you a pass. (pronounced Shkoda, not Skoda) Also Renault was interested in buying out the lot, however, neither French side or Czech side were interested in such deal. French side was adamant to turn the factory into Renault-models only (much like nowadays Dacia in Romania), such as (then new) Twingo and phasing out old Škoda models. Czech side was rather not in favor of this, as it was thought the VW deal could 'preserve' the brand in a way. And it did. However, almost all internal Škoda development (most notably engine R'&'D department) was stopped or subdued. And with the rise of new management, all the unique and quirky models got facelifted and subsequently discontinued/ replaced by boring VW-brewed designs nowadays. The brand's history museum is a proof, hiding interesting cars out of reach, while showing off the new, ugly models. There are alot of "What if"s, but the sad story is on both sides, Škoda may have given a chance to live on, but underneath the sticker, it's a VW. Low quality VW at that. The reliance on one brand/company to bring in cash hasn't changed, since the revolution and due to "chip shortage" the market is rather stagnant. Other brands, such as Praga got bought by foreign owners and do still exist, whilst Tatra (now owner of then Avia) does soldier on. Kaipan is also one obscure car manufacturer, which makes (or resolds) Caterham kits with various Škoda/VW engines. The whole Czech car industry got sold out and making "affordable" cars is not the point anymore for Škoda. Many will love it, but it's as hopelessly boring as it was during Communist rule.
10:52 Ah yes, The Wartburg. My dad had several of them including a 353 TT (tolótető) which means it had a sunroof. Which leaked. But it had one. He rear-ended a Renault because the driver had to stop abruptly to avoid hitting a pedestrian. The Renault's entire rear bumper was destroyes, the window broken, the lights badly damaged. The Wartburg? The bumper bent in a little.
Great and well researched video! You could have focused a bit more on the 70's and 80's as Skoda had some good rally cars at the time. Tatra were and are better known for their trucks (and were highly successful at Rally Paris-Dakar). Their cars were great for the time but were aging badly by the 80's.
