1979 Trabant 601 S | TEST DRIVE and TOP SPEED | POV

1979 Trabant 601 S | TEST DRIVE and TOP SPEED | POV
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Trabant 601 S
19 kW / 26 HP
0.6-Liter 2-Cylinder 2 Stroke Petrol Engine
4-Speed Manual
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[@scottibugatti7122]

“Driving a slow car fast is better than driving a fast car slow”

[@cat09no]

very true

[@xxtravisxxify]

Hahaha how's this so true

[@joe125ful]

Extreme agreed!

[@Lollerkid]

Just take a nice gallon of gas with you if you drive a trabant like this.

[@johnthompson9602]

@@Lollerkid Don't forget to take some oil to put in the gas too !

[@frangio4862]

Going 100 km / h in a Trabant is more exciting than going 400 km / h in a Bugatti

[@jmbpinto73]

And unsafe. :o

[@Beaumont6]

@@jmbpinto73 that's why it's exciting

[@ALP839]

@@jmbpinto73 So tell me something about the safety in a Veyron when it runs 400 kph... 🙈

[@joe125ful]

Very disagreed...

[@joe125ful]

@@ALP839 Its safe..very stable:) Also did you know when you crash with Trabant there is 90pers chance you die.

[@feketekrisztian1897]

No glass cockpit No computer No activ suspension No keyless go No problem...... The wunderbaum air fresh on mirror +10 hp

[@A.Sz.]

Yes samdaramdamdam Yes benzinszag REAL kormányváltó :)

[@user-glg20]

and radio installed before passenger

[@jsz2619]

What is glass cockpit?

[@gamerbrostr4822]

@@jsz2619 Cockpit with a big screen such as Mercedes-Benz S-Class

[@jsz2619]

@@gamerbrostr4822 Ok, got it thanks.

[@modelllichtsysteme]

Speedometer shows 120 km/h max, car drives 118 km/h. The naked truth, likes the car :D

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@xgamerbih]

well that was socialism... not like today, speedo shows 260 for example, but drives max 220. it's all marketing/lies

[@bariskaanatak5785]

old german quality :D i have now mercedes speedometer 260 max 220 :D

[@morreracingteam6004]

Well reason for that is they use same speedo for many models, my E34 525 and 540 had same speedo but 525 went around 230kmh 540 was limited to 250kmh without bit over 260kmh

[@DutchDukeMan]

i think the meter is optimistic too. actual top speed is probably around 100/105

[@AdictinMinecraft]

Trabant: Reached 100km/h Me: "OH MY GOD HE DID IT!"

[@user-jx2xc9ex8f]

He went 120

[@tramlink8544]

@@user-jx2xc9ex8f indicated, my PUCH army jeep does 160 indicated but its 120 in real speed XD XD XD

[@miki476]

@Balage78Szfvar Polski fiat 126p after small tuning was reaching 140 :)

[@biska131]

Even better, he surived that.

[@angelperez7891]

120 km/h, that is!

[@bembs0256]

My parents own one. It is still drivable. A living legend. I grew up in it and it was awesome. In Eastern Europe we had to do with what was available. Camping trips, fishing, barbecues and so on, this piece of crap worked flawlessly and it still does. You can’t kill a two stroke engine. No rust due to having panels made of some sort of fibre mixture, lightweight that you can lift it by yourself, minimal maintenance. It’s perfect when you don’t have much.

[@mfbfreak]

Trabants can sadly rust pretty badly underneath the duroplast panels. You don't see it, but it definitely happens. Especially the final 4 stroke models have big rust issues with the rear subframe.

[@dennisyoung4631]

Given that issue, you’d think they’d phosphate-treat the metal parts, then paint them with some dip&bake enamel so as to “keep the rust to a minimum.” After all, I’d not want *scarce materials and exceeding hard labor* to go to waste.

[@wuselwatschie]

2 Takter halten nicht ewig, wie viel Kilometer hat der Motor gehalten 80 - 90 Tausend Kilometer ?? Das Problem bei 2 Taktern ist die nicht vorhandene Schmieren wenn bei hoher Drehzahl kein Benzin mehr in den Brennraum kommt und somit auch kein Öl zum schmieren.

[@CheaterMega]

Imagine driving with this 1979. Empty roads. The smell of gasolin. With the family. Dressed nice poor or rich.

[@gglen2141]

The tase of cheap north korean krodilw on your lips. The slow burn of bootleg Vodka warming your guts. You are sexy. You are commie. You are Trabant.

[@shadowdancerRFW]

Go ask my father.

[@miljororforsprakpartiet290]

@@gglen2141 What the hell is krokodilw? lol

[@gglen2141]

@@miljororforsprakpartiet290 My bad !! Krokodil. The ghetto drug of the Russian Empire.

[@lucabaldelli1111]

@@federicoselmo2187 ma poveri chi? Stavano tutti bene. Chi pensa l'opposto è povero, ma. Di cervello!

[@nopelol8718]

0-60 km/h: 15 seconds 0-100 km/h: if you are lucky

[@MDMAsaco]

lol😂

[@Dimitriy5991]

In case of fair wind

[@alexstasko696]

0-100 in 10s But only if it goes down from a hill

[@TheFiatman2]

120km/ph on the flat, pay attention!!!

[@KurtGAndersen]

0-100: Just a couple of hours including coffeebreak, toiletbreak and lunchbreak....

[@davidgrisez]

Wow over 110 kilometers per hour in a Trabant, that is amazing.

[@blackeagle6809]

No, it´s normally when he was in good condition.

[@christiankupferstecher1906]

Please do not drive over 110 km / h. the engine then over-revs and is damaged. This is also in the instructions for use. You will not have long joy then. Kind regards

[@drajo123]

@@christiankupferstecher1906 you can not over revs that engine... it will spin over 10,000, just don't hold it like that for an hour

[@claudiocarbone2225]

@@drajo123 yas cause it's a 2 stroke

[@abc-ni9lp]

real speed was 102km/h max, gauge just cheating

[@Foreskincheesecake]

Aventador 0-100kmh: 2.7s Tesla Model X 0-100kmh: 2.6s Trabant 601 S 0-100kmh: *Yes*

[@fargeeks]

Thats 62 miles Basically its top speed is highway speeds

[@romeogatai4210]

So true.

[@michalkowalski9998]

Official acceleration is 40 s :)

[@wanderschlosser1857]

My one made it in about 30s. 18s 0-80 and another 12s 80-100. It was a "quick" one, doing 115-120km/h :o) That was 1993, my first car ... long long time ago! But a lot cool memories!

[@stefanstefan2105]

Who cares it’s not made for speed

[@nimmen]

That engine is running wonderfully! The whole car looks mint, inside and outside. Great job from the owner!

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@georgetd8623]

The car runs pretty good! I'm really delighted to see the little engine making the speedometer needle race up so quickly! Well done!

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@georgetd8623]

@@ungurdani8346 yeah bro, I will! :)

[@macedonianlad]

A major contributor to that acceleration is the fact that the entire car is extremly lightweight

[@generaloranger6150]

Guy drives high performance Porsche on autobahn* Me: Neinneinneinneinnein! Guy drives Trabant at 100km/h Me: JAJAJA

[@Jan_372]

Or a Hanomag at 120 :)

[@TodorKatsarski]

The Trabant is much more scary!

[@Elliot_Vulpe]

Todor Katsarski 😂😂😂😂🍾

[@you_re_dumb]

Stefan nein!

[@eduardmrva3762]

@@TodorKatsarski true that! In Sloakia/communist Czechoslovakia, one of the nicknames for Trabant was "rozhnevaný vysávač"/ "angry vacuum cleaner".

[@sila3241]

trabant is one of few cars where you can use the whole speedometer lol

[@MDMAsaco]

I should to use the whole speedometer in my vectra sport😂

[@Jaguara87]

I paid for the whole speedometer, I'll use the whole speedometer!

[@twoeightythreez]

In the US between 1978 and 1983 nearly every car could.use the whole speedometer. Legislation said max indicated speed was 85mph/140km/h (yes, US cars are required to have both imperial and metric on same gauge) Some cars kept the 85 mph speedo into the 1990s for some reason. It didnt matter if car could go 155mph speedo still stopped at 85 (with "55" clearly marked).

[@dejanera74]

Zastava 750 "FICA" do that better kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIjMfaiNmLesiac

[@PabloPerez-ed9gp]

Nissan datsun too😇

[@balubalu3365]

Piękny samochód. Fajnie było cofnąć się w czasie.

[@saltyfrenchy4324]

"0-100 km/h : :-)" Or as my East German friend told me "You're lucky if it reaches before the border"

[@eun5oo280]

HAHAHAHAHHA

[@lettuce7378]

lmaoooo

[@verous4k517]

East Germany: Trabant reaches over 100km/h West Germany: tf they doing over there

[@user-vv4ds1sx9s]

С тех пор ни чего не изменилось, только видят и в шоке , молят Бога вернуть все назад. У нас есть анекдот . Поссорился Путин с Лукашенко, тот пригрозил отправить войска. Путин министра спрашивает- сколько у Белоруссии дивизий ? Генерал говорит-две , но если они пойдут с красным флагом , то к Москве придут десять. А если пойдут на Берлин , то последняя будет называться Германская демократическая дивизия.

[@johndelorean7353]

@@pisisikutzu I sure hope my poor ass country was Germany right now.

[@Tom_OwO]

Was machstn du hier

[@user-ub8dc3rb4e]

Ага, только почему-то в ГДР автомобиль был у каждого третьего в то время, как в ФРГ такую роскошь могли позволить только десять человек из ста. Лучше так, чем пешком. Тем более, для многих это было БЕСПЛАТНО

[@meganoobbg3387]

America: "Oh no, they're testing a new fighter jet, we must send spies to capture it!"

[@youngcali177]

This looks to be a Trabant form the late 80's and its engine is in a good shape. These did ~120 according to the tacho, what is somehow 100-110 per GPS. Actually Trabant was an affordable car for the Eastern Europeans with acceptable reliability and super easy to repair anywhere, anything.

[@nicusor86]

my father was abroad in one of these and the brake cylinder of one wheel started leaking. vodka did a good cheap job and got his ass home. I don't know his top speed, streets weren't exactly meant for runners

[@DaBombtasi]

my mom used to bring me to the kindergarden with this. The smell of the gasoline, the oil, always cold, the sound... ohh the memories.

[@nomoregears]

As I was six years old and visited my uncle and aunt in DDR (1970), I enjoyed the 2 stroke fragrance and the brown coal smell everywhere in the air. You could see cars and bikes of the 50s, russian buses looking (and sounding) like iron dinos. The streets were very old, the houses and shops too. It was a journey into another time, a trip into the years long before my birth. It was a great adventure for my sister and me. And for my parents too, because my mother was been a republic refugee, an enemy of the past.

[@user-vv4ds1sx9s]

Приезжай в Москву , отвезем тебя за 300 километров от Москвы - по бываешь в 1970 году.

[@42luke93]

Thanks for turning off the music and not talking so we could hear the engine!

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@tobiasgotz9878]

Mega Video und auch mal schön solche Autos zu sehen ✅🔥

[@matthewbrown2037]

A few years after the reunification of Germany my friends Dad bought a 1981 Trabant 601 Universal, (estate). He bought it, sight unseen, from Berlin, over the phone, then flew over, with my mate in tow, and preceded drive it all the way back to Oxfordshire at a steady 60kph! Needless to say it took a while.

[@sven471111]

In that time he could have hundreds for free.People threw them away or sold them for 1 DM,just to get rid of it.The newspaper was full of advertisings every weekend.And today they cry for it when the calculator needs to be changed and costs 2000Euros...

[@sullybiker6520]

@@sven471111 We have gone to the other extreme, from simple and costly (in terms of waiting time and the end product being much more basic than other countries) to even 'cheap' cars being extremely complicated and effectively disposable.

[@sven471111]

@@sullybiker6520 exactly that's why I keep my 1990 Passat Diesel as long as possible in reserve.in this crisis you never know what's coming.maybe comes a bigger shortage in microchips.anyway new cars,vans trucks I can't afford and wouldn't buy anyway.better used ones what was made in millions,so you can find parts new or second for many years.

[@Petr75661]

when i tried to peel off a banana sticker of my friend's trabant, he freaked out: "that's a structural component!"

[@MREnzoHerbie]

Guy the way that Trabant is fun to drive is amazing.

[@joewyatt2407]

Thanks for taking us for a ride. Looks like a blast to drive! They sound brilliant and definitely have a lot of retro charm. The interior is particularly cool

[@arcott.]

1970: In Poland Trabants everywhere 2020: OMG TRABANT IS A LEGEND OMG Polish people 1970-2020: 🤨

[@herrrotkappchen7816]

The same with "Syrena" and "Fiat 126P".

[@becconvideo]

The Trabant is a street cruiser compard to the 126p :-) and the Cinquecento our Italian friends drove around with - and im my mind a bit better than the french 2CV. The original Minicooper I would prefer to the Trabant.

[@megumin3336]

Poorland

[@becconvideo]

@@megumin3336 An Arab colleaque once told me a popular saying from the middle East: My grandfather rode a camel, my dad drive Mercedes, I drive Maserati, my son will drive Mercedes and my grand son will ride a camel.

[@becconvideo]

Meanwhile in a hotel car park somwhere in Poland: I with my CLA feel like the polish did in the 80/90ies with their 126p. :-)

[@ionm.2412]

A dude decided to take a long trip using his trusty Trabant. Half way through his journey, the car stopped running, living the poor fella stranded in the middle of the highway, asking other drivers for a tow. Soon enough, a kind soul driving a state of the art Ferrari, saw the man in need, and decided to help him. Some time passed, everything going smoothly, when a jackass with a Porsche 911 passed the Ferrari driver, flipped him off, and the race was on. The next day, news reported that during a dangerous high speed race, between a Porsche and a Ferrari, with speeds reaching over 250 km/h, a person driving a Trabant was angrily honking and gesticulating at the two persons racing, to let him pass.

[@MrHouse42069]

What does that even mean pahaha

[@aavramov]

Good old joke :) But in the original version it was with Lada and Volga, and the speeds were 150 - 160 :) :)

[@DeanMk1]

That story kinda parodies an old song. The story's funnier, though. =)

[@JordanKwon]

There's a same joke here in Korea, but the Trabant is replaced with Daewoo Tico.

[@xaviert.123]

@@MrHouse42069 The Ferrari started racing the 911 while towing the Trabant. The driver of the Trabant was then mad at the Ferrari for racing while he was being towed, all at 250 km/h :P But the news reported it looking like a Trabant trying to overtake

[@hariranormal5584]

engine sounds beautiful lol. gives me memories.

[@thetrabantguy3934]

makes me want to fall asleep

[@hariranormal5584]

@@thetrabantguy3934 Heh, lots of rural memories really. Back in the days, had cars that sounded like this :P

[@gregoryschwarz2730]

Is this one not two stroke? Sounds like a regular petrol engine.

[@k8zhd]

That's about the best sounding Trabi I've heard! That lovely two-stroke twin sound is very like the '59 Goggomobil TS400 I had for many years in Massachusetts. Its 400cc twin (alleged 20 HP) could just get me up to 60 mph on a long flat straight.

[@salmansiddiq4521]

Why do old cars like this have kind of a whining sound from the engine or in first 2 gears? Anyone can say me please. I had this question since I was child😅😅

[@ferencvarhegyi883]

Perfect sounding Trabi!!!

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@n3gve]

It's worked! It's worked! Honestly, i was dreaming about Trabant when i was a kid. It was tiny and had some charm

[@marcalin8950]

Even the cops will laugh if you go over the "speed limit" :))) Awesome video !!

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@0nics]

That weird moment when your throttled motorcycle still has more HP than that. What a time to be alive

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

Highway speeds on a 2-stroke engine? Wow

[@joe125ful]

Why not.

[@LloydLynx]

@@joe125ful 2-stroke needs oil mixed with fuel since it uses the crank case to pump fuel into the cylinder, so burning oil is just a part of normal operation. Also, intake and exhaust is the same stroke so there's bound to be a little unburned fuel going out the exhaust. But it's more powerful because roughly 50% of the time the piston is producing useful power, rather than 25% for a 4-stroke.

[@joe125ful]

@@LloydLynx Yep.

[@becconvideo]

@@LloydLynx Unburned fuel is only emitted when ideling (with the popcorn sound) But this is bad enought because in heavy city traffic ideling is the norm - not the exceptions. And imagine East German cities in the 80ies - quite heavy traffic and almost all cars and motorcycles on two stroke. That was nasty - especially in the summer. During the Winter while cold starting there were the cool blue clouds from the exhaust pipe - a big mess (only surpassed by lignite smoke from the chimneys)

[@johndelorean7353]

Ever heard of 200 HP 2 stroke Honda race bike, or aprilia rs 125?

[@wanderschlosser1857]

Love it! Was my 1st car back in 93, that sound brings so many cool memories back! 👍🏻

[@steffchen86]

Das katapultiert mich in meine Kindheit zurück, als ich immer mit meinem Opa in seinem Trabi mitgefahren bin!

[@davidwhitmore4595]

almost 120 km/h (75 MPH). I was thinking about building a car similar to that trabant.

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@AlainHubert]

I thought I was watching the AutoTopNL channel until I saw the speedometer... lol! But this car still beats taking the bus. Thanks for sharing!

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil ,, pls subscribe

[@--tsatsa--]

Up until recently this was one of the frequent vehicles running on Bulgaria's public roads. :) My grandpa used to have one. He really put it to work as he went(sometimes I went along with hime) to pickup 450 kgs of animal feed and the car just pulled like she had 100+ bhp. Of course this was due to the way 2-stroke engines operate but It still I got to say "Trabi" is one magnificent vehicle.

[@dimitargetsov9690]

TRABANT is not a car, it is a LEGEND, PASSION, SYMBOL !!! Love You,Trabi !!

[@42luke93]

I like the column shifter setup for the knee room. I wish more subcompact cars offered it for more room inside. A trabaunt has more interior knee room than the full size sedans we have today!

[@BeesKneesBenjamin]

The trawhat?

[@productosegundamano1663]

I'm from Romania and when I was a kid there was a lot of traby in my country.

[@cocosnake755]

Si dacia 100😎

[@productosegundamano1663]

@@cocosnake755 dacia 100, dacia 1300, oltcit, aro......

[@brwchm2023]

I also used to see a Trabant in the island of Crete where I live, till the past years. I can’t recall if it was a station wagon or a sedan. I like those cars because of their simplicity.

[@combatantezoteric2965]

Are accelerație mai mare decât 1410 -lw break al tatei.

[@deanromania6748]

Au fost și Trabanturi cândva și au fost și Dacii, multe au fost, puține au rămas

[@irmakaymelek]

The Trabant is a really high quality and beautiful car, no matter who says otherwise, and I advocate this consciously.

[@andreasposchke9545]

I was born in the DDR, we had a blue Combi with extrme long back Windows. Looks taday very strong....never forget the feeling😍 And 120 Kmh is very good for a Trabi! After 1989 this Car was cheaper than 1€ ...nobody wanne have it. And now? I LOVE IT😍😍😍

[@nemespet]

I love it! We had a car like that. I got stuck with it once in the winter and pushed me out of the snow. :)

[@gyorgyranga5659]

Such a gorgeous machine 😁 I learned to drive on one of these.. Unforgettable

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil ,, pls subscribe

[@SonnyBTempelhof]

that's the kind of test drive i like to see! thanks for that!

[@louiscletus8094]

I drove one of these in Berlin. I did this with Traby safari. We first had to learn to shift on a dummy gearbox. A must do when you visit Berlin and you like older cars.

[@feraljim]

There’s almost one mm right hand side torque steer when you blip the throttle on these. A real beast

[@codykamminga9667]

One of the cars I’ve always wanted

[@St1ckyGreeN]

my grandpa from hungary used to have on of these in blue i remember playing in his car i pretended to be an adult driving around and stuff... man good old times :) i still have this "old car" smell of the inside of a trabant in my head rip grandpa

[@jasv49]

I can almost feel the vibration of the car through just watching the video, and I love it

[@SGZoli1]

Ismerős Trabi, ismerős helyszíneken :) Jól megy :)

[@MLaciBp]

Nekem volt is egy, még 1991-ben, de az nem hasított így. Nagyon egyszerű jószág volt, viszont a bátyám meggenerálozta az út szélén ha úgy adódott. ☝️🤣

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@Simonsays..]

Awesome car !! I want one :)

[@punkaru]

Ours was the same but sky blue color, а 1986 model. Speedo easily went down to 6 o'clock every time, no mods, all factory car. My dad bought a second one in 1989, brand new again, and it could hardly reach 120km/h, so he sold it few months later, and kept the older one, until it was stolen in 1995 or 1996! That is the only German car I respect and trust as being reliable! Besides feeling as in a proper racing car, this car provided other unique experiences. Going up hill heating would be nice a warm, but when you went downhill, it would quickly cool, and in the winter the windscreen could easily freeze inside if the downhill part was longer :))). That's because the heating used the exhaust gases to heat up the air, via a secondary skin cover over the front muffler, situated right after tne exhaust manifold. So when gases cooled, while engine was idling or at full vacuum, the air would not heat up :). There was a plastic dip stick to measure how much fuel you had left in the tank, and calculate how much oil to add to this fuel, as it was a 2 stroke engine. Owning a Trabant after an original 1969 Fiat 124A, was a great, as the Trabant never ever broke down on the road, unlike the Fiat which did so regularly!

[@paleghost]

I was able to drive one from a tour company in Hungary - just a short distance. Was driven a fair distance. I guess if it's all you can get, it'll do. They told me if you can drive a Trabbi you can drive anything. Steering was incredibly heavy AND slow, The owner in very broken English told me don't coast in any gear except 4th. It only has a freewheel in fourth. People are nostalgic about them now, horn honking and waving when you're in it. Supposedly they are indestructible - to prove it one of the owners got on the roof and jumped up and down. Our tour guide rode in my car in the back seat ( she was about 5' 10" - a lot of tall good looking women in Budapest) and I was in the passenger and am 6' 1".

[@agovics1]

It served the purpose in its day :D The engine sounds in good condition too praise to the caretaker. For a 600ccm engine it appears to handle better than an early 2000s Fiat Punto 1.2 :D

[@stevenrix7277]

I drove one in Eastern Germany (DDR) in the 80s and it was fun.

[@becconvideo]

no it wasn't

[@stevenrix7277]

@@becconvideo Back then in Eastern Germany you did not have that much choice over than owning a trabant and wait around 15 years to get it. While it was not fun to live in Eastern Germany it was fun to drive that car, it was giving you a sense of freedom.

[@becconvideo]

@@stevenrix7277 as a child I sat between my sisters on the back seat of first a ligtht blue Moskwitch 408 and later in a Dacia 1300 - I started driving myself in 1990. No it was no fun because: stress, pot wholes, stinking two stroke vehicles in front of you (with no air condition to switch to internal), deteriorating infrastructure, constant fear that something breaks your car and you don't get it fixed - you couldn't even get a hotel room, no service at all - no road side assistance - no ADAC - the whole DDR was no fun at all. Nowadays it is nice to travel to the Ostsee - Usedom/ Rügen/ Warnemünde for the weekend - check webcams to see if the sun is shining - book online - friday after work pick up the family and away you go. That is what I call fun.

[@Zausage4563]

Awesome video bro!

[@tiborreszegi6185]

We had trabant when I was teenager. Altrough, It was made of cartoon paper, the engine had potential. . it was great to hear to sound of it again. . We sat down with it within a roundabout. In the middle of the roundabout, couldnt go out of it, because the left rear wheel fell out, broke off. . It was the same type. I tought about having a trabant once - could not achieve that (yet).

[@sandorgyovai2098]

that sound is music for my ears! :D

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@deanromania6748]

Guy: *Drives with almost 120 km/h in a Trabant* Me: WaiT tHaT's IlleGaL

[@deanromania6748]

Yep lol😂😂😂

[@joe125ful]

Also best thing is stopped by police and they say you drive more than 120 km:)

[@deanromania6748]

@@joe125ful Also he can then say:,,Nooooo, how could I ever reach 120 with a Trabant?!"

[@khriztjan]

Gyökér. Semmi se illegális. Lehet 140el is menni. Csak be kell fizetni rá a ticketet ;)

[@deanromania6748]

@@khriztjan I don't understand your language

[@mihaicostescu]

Wow....looks impeccable... Awesome job.

[@vaclavkubak1519]

A part of my childhood. Unforgetable.

[@fbazsa11]

1:38 powershifting :D

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@12cellardoor]

How do you measure the acceleration of a Trabant? With calendar. (I had one, loved it.)

[@serenoYdesprendido]

keep doing such videos with old,well preserved cars.Everybody does with new ones.This is really interesting

[@daniello5810]

I love Trabant ❤

[@tank123103]

For a second I thought it was miles per hour not kilometers per hour and I was absolutely amazed at how fast he was going lol

[@legyes]

You feel that 110km/h like a lightspeed :)

[@MTSVW]

Reminds me of my Beetle the way everything is so simple, raw, and loud. But it sounds like my moped-I love the way two strokes sound accelerating and decelerating. The LED tach seems really useful as a simple shift indicator. Such a quirky juxtaposition of the modern and ancient

[@grzestelicki]

It's better than all those sports cars. Absolutelly love it. Brings me my childhood back

[@windhelmguard5295]

i mean it basically almost is one to be honest. light weight construction, body panels made from fibre reinforced resin, superb suspension, corners like none other. hell turning it into a race car doesn't even take that much work, tear out the rear seats, put in a roll over cage, replace the fuel tank and other stuff to comply with regulations, tune up the engine a bit and you're good. hell they won the rallye monte carlo in one of these back in the seventies.

[@8307c4]

Did you drive that in sport mode? I ask because that was pretty good acceleration, the car reached a top speed of about 70+ mph. I particularly enjoyed the manual turn signal, that gives the driver the opportunity to turn it off rather than having the car do it which is less insulting to our intelligence as drivers. Also the little stress vibrations were almost a bit ASMR, thank you.

[@drakevevo3710]

love these old east german cars, too bad theyre nowhere to be seen in england, we have a few ladas and some yugos and theyre the only interesting cars we have

[@balazsfitz7517]

There's one not far from here around the corner... (inside M25)

[@henryseidel5469]

Oh yes, I saw some Trabants when I was spending my holidays in Sussex last year. Seemed to belong to people from rural areas who use it for local transport, shopping etc. in the near town etc. I talked to them, they seemed to be quite satisfied with that vehicle. Especially as far as the simplicity of the engine is concerned. I had one an a student some thirty five years ago: Extremely cheap, no problems at all, no mechanics necessary. A basic car, but worked very well. Drove 116 thousand kilometres in it - about seventy five thousand miles. Then the bearings of the crankshaft broke, and I had a new one built in.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Wartburg 353W has been exportet to the UK called KNIGHT 1000

[@becconvideo]

@@Schlipperschlopper They exported Trabants to Belgium and the Netherlands - and Wartburgs to the same countries. Some made it even to South Africa. But due to the asymetric layout in the quite narrow engine compartment it would have been a bit of a challenge to fit the steering column at the right hand side in a Trabant (the tank would have been in the way)

[@trabant601s8]

Awesome Trabant and awesome sound. Good Trabbi. Please, make more trabant driving videos.

[@tomasdusil8273]

My father was owner of two Trabants during 70´and 80´. Limusine and Combi called Tourist I think. With Combi, we have taken our holiday trip in 1985 from Prague to Baltic sea in NDR. In 5 passangers (three children included me and two addults). In commonality of nowdays, it was very adventures for me. Otherwise, really nise driving with legend of east block in video.

[@ARIES6181]

How much pollution and smoke you want? Trabant: Yes

[@joe125ful]

Lol look on American wehicles:)

[@ARIES6181]

@@joe125ful Not more than Trabi 😂

[@joe125ful]

@@ARIES6181 Sure:):)

[@uhrensohnmentalitaet]

Fun fakt: Trabant is the german car producer with the lowest co2 emissions per produced vehicle over all times

[@AfridonDeaddark]

Longest car - two meters coupe twelve meters smoke. But using low octane so not big polute compared to high octane cars especially with big engines.

[@lukimalin]

03:44 OMG, HOLY MOLLY :D

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil , pls subscribe

[@JcDenton86]

Damn, my grandad and my dad had one of these back in the day, such a great car still, thx for the vid, brings back a lot of good memories from my childhood!! :)

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil ,, pls subscribe

[@ungurdani8346]

Thank men pls subscribe

[@davidcasas3862]

Live with two stroke melody sounds really well...good video!!!!

[@docsaaab]

Bring the thunder! The LED gage is boostpressure😀

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil ,, pls subscribe

[@VegaS987]

This is the longest car in the world 2m the car and 27 the smoke 😅😅😅❤

[@milanmokricka3165]

Pěknej kousek, v pěkné kondici👌👍

[@remcolodeweges2132]

Respect. Ashtonishingly well done, Trabi!!!! You look great by the way!!!

[@mercislali]

It's cool Trabant up to 100+ km/h :D Superfast :D

[@Andsallyux]

Sounds like a Piaggio Ape ahahahah, amazing car

[@gregkMos]

because motor is similar: 2 stroke

[@temonddmeg]

Being a 2cyl, 2 stroke, 601ccm, 26bhp.....it IS quite dinamic and sounds superb. In Hungary we had these little buggers...they were the only car capable of doing reasonable speed on very bad roads.

[@RMRockstar]

That Trabant looks ridiculously fun to drive :)

[@Holakovskykarel97]

2:06 Suspension on its absolute limit :D

[@ungurdani8346]

ciao men , i have a big collection trabant 1:43 1:24 rally & civil ,, pls subscribe

[@teecchnoboy]

plot twist: the speedo is in mph

[@anonymousguy3826]

Would be so dope.

[@retroe3076]

Plot twist: the speedo just shows l/km

[@Matthias_AT]

No

[@thomaskolb8785]

I once drove a Trabant, it was both fun and terrifying at the same time, kind of like driving around in a Cessna 150 on the ground.

[@seanm1168]

Thanks for the vid love it 👍👍👍

[@zlin1998]

Deutsche Qualität meine Damen und Herren...

[@WeiserMaster3]

Ich seh's, echt traurig was man damals nur erreicht hat.

[@peterzingler6221]

460kmh 1944 auf der deutschen Autobahn das war deutsche Qualität.

[@volkerschreyer343]

@@WeiserMaster3 das war von Politik so gewollt. Man hatte andere Pkw in der Schublade, sahen schon aus wie Golf 1. Honecker und seine Partei wollten nicht.

[@Stecher007]

Alles Schrott

[@Rootsman417]

Bei einem Verbrauch von 5l/100km und einem Neupreis von umgerechnet ca 3000€ steht der Trabi gar nicht so schlecht da. Außerdem ist er von außen nicht gerostet.

[@csefthomas]

Fun fact: it was possible to switch 4th gear without using clutch.

[@lordred7462]

Fun fact: It's possible to switch any gear without using clutch, only rev matching if you have feeling for manual gearbox. I once drove for 500 km that way company car that had no working clutch, hydraulic clutch actuator failed on highway. Managed to drive it to the shop for repair through town.

[@Diza_X]

I usually hate engine sounds (especially those loud ones), but that low pitched engine sound is quite satisfying when driving about 30km/h

[@Xopop]

Yyyyy, the new model. Nice exhaust sounds.

[@TheGregstar92]

120 kilometres an hour. Was it on a slope with a gentle tailwind?

[@bobrobertson2851]

Már majdnem elkezdtem angolul válaszolni, erre látom, te is magyar vagy :-) Nem kellett oda hátszél. Nem is voltak olyan ritkák a gyorsabb példányok akkoriban. Egy tök átlagos példány is simán ment 100zal 1-2személyig, de még 4 személlyel is tudták a 80as utazót úgy, hogy (mi) ketten 100-100, másik két utas 80-80kilós volt, ami igencsak szép teljesítmény a kis 0.6os kétütemű szívómocitól. No meg voltak példányok, amik ennél többet is tudtak. Autószerelő ismerősnek volt ilyen(némi karbi okosítással)-3an ültek benne és simán mentek 120szal előttünk. 1.2es Ladával mentünk mögöttük, de azért nyomni kellett a gázt, hogy ne maradjuk le :-)

[@Aly3n85]

Szép trabant! A "körmendi egyenes" be figyelt :)

[@alanpeterson1846]

Had one in my youth . big story with it ! :)

[@vb7037]

One of my best memories was when I was playing soccer as a kid in Romania and my friend kicked the ball really hard but missed the goal, hit a Trabant in the driver side door and the soccer ball stuck in the door.