TBH I prefer Trabant. With a few wrench and screwdriver you could fix your ride. Try to do it nowdays. Not to mention, that Trabant can go offroad quite well, and also nobody can track you remotely (only via the smoke). Not to mention the price and maintenance cost - beside the pure simplicity.
:D That line about hiding due to smoke is not wrong :D Of course the Trabant would have a number of advantages compared to today's cars. But the main disadvantage, in my opinion, would be low safety... :(
I think there's a list of the different Trabant models and the years they were made... In the video there are multiple Trabant models in different years, I'm sure there's footage from the late 80s, you're right.
If you compare the technologies and engineering of then and now, the cars of that time were many times better than the ones of today. This is because the engineers and workers of that time truly strived to make the highest quality and longest lasting product with the possibilities of the technologies they had at their disposal, while this is neither a goal nor an interest in this time.
Totally agree. It's a pity that today you can't choose and buy, for example, a newly manufactured Trabant - only slightly upgraded to today's safety requirements...
Comparing Tesla to a Trabant feels very ridiculous from a quality standpoint. If we compare their prices, Tesla starting at aprox. 89,000 $ (cheapest) is a lot more expensive than Trabant with it's 14,500 $ price.
I'm certainly not promoting Tesla in any way.ŠHe wentIt was It was just an interesting comparison of how quality control has evolved over the past few decades :)
I think the comparison is quite unbalanced. I have seen Tesla models with huge manufacturing flaws. The comparison should have been between Tesla against Volkswagen, Renault, Citroen, Ford, Toyota, Nissan... This video does not serve to prove anything.
I know these are Trabants, but you could have picked a higher quality brand to compare to. Tesla quality is.... how should we say.... *cough* shit *cough*
