Automobiles in the Soviet Union - COLD WAR SPECIAL

Our interview with @Ushanka Show ( / @ushankashow ) - we discuss the cars made in the Soviet Union
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[@marekvrbka]

Ah, Zaporozec, I heard in Czech Republic that it was faster than a tractor, consumed less fuel than a tank and was quieter than a plane.

[@gigachadgaming6071]

Is it faster than a supersonic rocket tho?

[@meganoobbg3387]

A Zaporojec driver once took a airpilot to drive him back home. And once the Zaporojec reached 70km speed, the airpilot told the driver: "Comrade, just let me take over for you and ill lift it off the ground."

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

I heard that this car was a handyman's dream. Always something to repair.

[@meganoobbg3387]

The ZAZ engine was originally an american WW2 starter engine for airplanes. A v4 used for starting the actual fighter engine in cold climate. The real problem was the russians didnt manage the aircooling system, and the engine itself was a bit complicated to regulate perfectly. Thats why it always made alot of noise, and wasted fuel and oil. Only the last ZAZ Tavria model was actually a decent car.

[@Rrgr5]

For what I know, your country has the best cars of the eastern block, Tatra, Skoda, and they were also pretty original stuff, nothing improvised or copied.

[@hanzup4117]

*Buying a car in the Soviet Union* Car dealer: Come back in ten years and we'll give you your car. Soviet citizen: Morning or afternoon? Car dealer: It's ten years from now, what difference does it make? Soviet citizen: The plumber is coming in the morning.

[@manghariz2211]

Ive heard this joke before but i didnt really understand it Can you explain to me please?

[@hanzup4117]

@@manghariz2211 Of course :) It was told by US president Ronald Reagan. It's a joke about how other vital products and services also have a ten year wait in the USSR.

[@BHuang92]

I've heard this joke before. I know someone that ordered his car in the Soviet Union back in 1981. Ten years later, he came back to get his car.........in 1991

[@hanzup4117]

@@BHuang92 "Sorry, but there's been a bit of a problem. The entire Soviet Union collapsed. Can you come back in another ten years? We should have it by then."

[@borntobea2938]

That didnt happen, as there were no car dealers. There were other so called "officials" :(

[@martinstent5339]

I remember visiting the General Electric office in Moscow around 1980. They picked me up from the airport in the company car which was a Mercedes. I said “Wow! how did you get a Mercedes here?” and was told that the manager had driven it over from Germany himself. So there were just a few foreign cars around, mostly driven by diplomats and foreign managers. BTW: never been so drunk in my whole life as that time in the USSR.

[@nkirk8740]

I learnt very early on a very important life lesson, never try to keep up drink for drink with anyone from Eastern Europe, LOL!!!!! Boy those guys can hold their drink and not only beer but spirits! I've worked with people from Poland, Slovakia and to a person they were hard working and great, I've had some of the best nights out with them. All the best, 😁👍👊✌️🌍.

[@THALASA]

I respect you guys alott for actually inviting someone over who has lived in the soviet union, a majority of youtube has someone with a few million subscribes that read wikipedia out loud and acts as if he knows everything about the subject

[@paulsolovyovsky1702]

take a trip to Cuba, you'll see what it was like..same cars, cartoons, and food rationing

[@Arthurzeiro]

Oh yeah, that bald bloke with like 30 different channels. Every video is just a Wikipedia readout, ridiculous.

[@redline1916]

@@Arthurzeiro 30 different channels? He only has one and has a family in the US along with relatives still around Ukraine, you are ridiculous. It's almost as if any criticism of the soviet union (something you have both not experienced nor' lived in) is apparently a Wikipedia readout.

[@xboxstudent]

@@Arthurzeiro He was from the Eastern Blocs, he is more qualified than your CIA-Funded bs narratives on Wiki

[@bubandbob]

@@redline1916 I think he's referring to the guy who runs Today I Found Out and a whole bunch of other similar themed channels.

[@georgf9279]

In Germany Fiat stands for "Für Italiener ausreichende Technik." which translates to: "Technology sufficient for Italians."

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

ouch

[@michaelfodor6280]

It stands for "Fix It Again, Tony" in English.

[@canman5060]

Das ist gut !

[@canman5060]

@@michaelfodor6280 Do you know why most Italian males are called Tony in North America ? To New York !

[@michaelfodor6280]

@@canman5060 LOL Now I just learned something from a KZbin comment section. Thanks.

[@kickthesky]

I was in the US Army in West Germany when the wall came down in Berlin. I remember a few days after it happened the East Germans started flooding across the borders into West Germany and with it all of the Trabants. Going down the autobahn was an adventure in patience as none of these cars could do more than fifty miles an hour. On top of that, they all had to stop every hour or so to open the hood and cool the engine down, so you would see Trabants all over the side of the autobahns with their hoods open. Absolutely surreal experience.

[@mrgsudo]

In Brazil FIAT stands for "Fui 'Inganado' Agora é Tarde" (I was deceived, now is too late)

[@tomtomlifesolutions]

Típico brasileiro

[@david_flak3036]

@@tomtomlifesolutions kkk

[@mrgsudo]

@@tomtomlifesolutions kkkk

[@praeceptor]

That is a really great one ! :))

[@triumphbobberbiker]

wait a moment... in 2020, sales of the FCA (now stellantis)reached over 430,000 units in Brazil (22 percent of that market). You mean Brazil is a country with a 22 percent pushovers???

[@pascal9055]

I was born in Bavaria in ‘88 but I still remember the occasional Trabbi agonizing it’s way down the Autobahn after the Wall came down, and my grandfather mocking it in utter disgust.

[@233kosta]

Agonising sounds about right!

[@SKa-tt9nm]

Pascal Johnson if you ever wonder about the differences between communism and capitalism, all yin have to do is compare the car industries of East and west Germany. Trabant vs Mercedes, Warburg vs. BMW 😁

[@jakekaywell5972]

@@SKa-tt9nm You're forgetting one important factor. The superpower that had control over East Germany absolutely hated their guts. They wouldn't supply them with good cars in any case. Try something fairer, like GAZ or Skoda.

[@igvc1876]

Yeah the Trabbi on an Autobahn was more disgusting than all the Nazis the West hired after the war to run their country and all the car makers

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@igvc1876 There's always one that brings up the West using German scientist. You do know the Soviets DID THE SAME THING don't you? Look up Japan's unit 731. They did far worse things than the Nazi's and the Allies used them after the war as well. Using a vanquished foes resources has happened all throughout history. It's called living in the real world.

[@iliakaikaci]

I'm from Georgia (country) and I can say that 60% of Georgian had cars. My family had 2 cars, but they weren't rich, it was easier to buy cars in Georgia than other republics.

[@Seatux]

Love the emphasis on country. Do only Americans think of Georgia as a US state first before the sovereign one?

[@iliakaikaci]

@@Seatux People in Europe and Asia know that Georgia is a country but people who live closer to USA think it's only a state

[@ben5056]

Русское море well they did have oranges and tomatoes

[@iliakaikaci]

@Русское море We don't hate Russian people, they are innocent, we hate Russian government which occupies our lands

[@sobamuhsin]

I am from Turkey and when you wanna buy a car you have to pay lots of taxes so clever ones buying cars from Georgia :D

[@ImForwardlook]

Being a Finn I had somewhat of an idea of the Soviet reality car-wise. I knew a guy who was in charge of the Soviet car and truck import quality control, boy, did he have some stories! The Ladas were supposed to be of better quality for export, yet there were examples that had drum brakes on one side and disc brakes on the other. You get the pic. At one time in school we were waiting for a guy from East Germany to hold a presentation. There was a big snow storm and he was hours late. Finally he arrived, apologized, and continued; "I just have a little cardboard car". Yup, there was a Trabant in the school yard. Finally, proof that Soviet citizens loved cool cars, this scene happened several times but I remember one time in particular outside the local GM dealer in my home town. They had a brand new yellow 1978 Pontiac Trans Am in the window and all the Soviet tourists in the group took turns for photographs in front of it.

[@bangerbangerbro]

Trabants were exported to Finland right, the cheapest car available at the time?

[@ImForwardlook]

@@bangerbangerbro I had to look it up because I was born in 1965 and have never seen a Trabant in Finland back in the day. Yes, they were sold but I guess bad news travel fast and they never got popular.

[@granskare]

I saw a Soviet Car in Finland, another name for "victory"

[@Random-nf7qb]

There's no way a lada had disc brakes on the rear. The factory didn't have tooling for them. Yes the front were discs, but to fit discs on the rear the axles had to be changed, so your story is bullshit

[@davidhollenshead4892]

@@Random-nf7qb Correct, and the main reasons for the drum rear brakes is durability & a better parking brake design. For passenger cars, rear disk brakes still doesn't make sense, as the rear brakes only do 10% to 25% of the braking, depending on the design of the car...

[@Nightmare78hAlo]

Quiet the huge oppososite to what we had in Communist Yugoslavia, where getting a car was a far easier and quicker ordeal, with a lot of people basically being handed out Yugos.

[@TheWedabest]

I was waiting for someone to put that comment. It crazy the difference between the two communist countries!

[@thelakeman2538]

Yugoslavia had a less regulated economy due to the whole market socialism, so makes sense.

[@TheWedabest]

@@thelakeman2538 also they were allowed to freely travel to other countries. All those folks working abroad,sending money back home really helped build up the economy!

[@rikidiki8940]

My family owned 3 cars in the mid 80s one of them was an old saab lol.. In yugoslavia im pretty sure there were even mercedes and bmw dealers

[@alanywalany6460]

@@thelakeman2538 Not due to that at all; Yugoslavia was allowed to import Western goods.

[@grafgeo9194]

My dad served in the east german army as a driving instructor. After his five years of service (and perhaps some dark deals), he was able to buy a new Lada and was the coolest guy in town. He not only worked but lived as a mechanic and fixed lots of old cars.

[@UshankaShow]

Would you say Lada was better than Trabant?

[@grafgeo9194]

@@UshankaShow definitively better. Whennhe sold the Lada and got a Trabant, my mother was very unhappy with the deal.

[@bonghungk7544]

@@UshankaShow hello I see you visiting other channels. Nice to see you

[@edlenorgaeron8003]

Others: "Fix it again, Tony!" SU: "Fix it again, Tovarisch!"

[@canman5060]

Tony stands for To NY (New York) began around the late 1800s.

[@Otokichi786]

Mechanic Oleg: "Is easy to repair, so good car." Found a good car in old garage. Chico, from Cuba, is turning it into Latin Lowrider.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Actually the Lada Riva & Lada Niva were quality products, as they were built for Russian Conditions. For example while the Riva was "based" on the Fiat 124, it has thicker sheet metal, a better cylinder head design, etc. as "Russian Conditions" == little or no repair facilities, harsh weather and unpaved roads...

[@annescholey6546]

Your t.v. is on fire comrade.

[@Tzar1]

@@canman5060 I never heard that one. I've only heard Tory in refrece to the Conservative party

[@maxnikolenko2302]

Great segment. I'm from the former USSR, and so many memories come flooding in with the cars of USSR. The seatbelts thing is so true. No one buckles up. Not even the police. Especially not the police

[@thunderbird1921]

Fun fact: I've seen from a tourist's video here on KZbin that North Korea actually has a car line they sell. The Pyongyang dealership this VERY bold fellow filmed had like 2-3 van types, some Jeep-like vehicles and a car that sort of resembled a 90s or early 2000s Toyota. The vehicles appeared to have no air bags, no AC except forced air, and other safety features looked subpar (I couldn't tell if there were seat belts or not). What was incredibly funny is that the car signs and names were printed in both Korean and English, in case any tourist with money wished to purchase one. I don't know what regulations are in Eastern Europe, but NO WAY would these things be street legal in America!

[@hungryburger1170]

unbuckling takes up precious dissident stomping time, comrade!

[@kippgoeden]

People in the US weren’t buckling either until it was made mandatory by law. Both of my parents vividly recalled never riding with a seatbelt as children.

[@lastmanstanding-xp3ub]

@@kippgoeden shit, it was completely legal to have "captains chairs" also known as "bucket seats" that were UNFASTENED/NOT BOLTED DOWN in vans or other van-like SUV's & vehicles lol. It was also legal (or if it wasnt it wasn't enforced) to ride in beds of trucks either with or without a camper top, seats (if someone had a "seat" it was typically a F'ing fold out/up lawn chair 😂), etcetera, up until pretty recently also. Its kind of weird that motorcyclists can ride a motorcycle without a helmet but an individual driving/riding in a car is required by law to wear a seat belt at all times on public roads, I mean I always wear mine (and would regardless of the legality/laws) since I prefer to stay on the correct side of windshield but it's still an odd aspect of the law that doesn't quite seem fair to me. I suppose that's life though, nothings fair lol.

[@tomaszzap9574]

​@@thunderbird1921What do you mean by Eastern Europe now? What is currently part of EU allows the same cars as the whole European Union. Lada Niva and several other Russian cars don't fulfill emission norms at all. These "contemporary" Russian cars are sild only in Russia and some of its allied (read it satelite or vassalised) neighboring countries... like Belarus, maybe Kazakhstan..

[@K.Bush94]

The Ikarus buses and electric buses (trolley) are still at use in Hungary. I think they feel retro/vintage, but they are still okay to have around. Most of them are greatly renovated. I'm a fan of keeping older things "alive" and love when brands do these "flashback" campaign like pepsi do nowadays.

[@N_0968]

I used to love Ikarus busses. So pretty. After that we got old foreign busses that were too old in the original country.

[@tomfrazier1103]

I think these buses are seen in other Asian and African countries.

[@sirmiluch6856]

I loved these busses too. They were everywhere, not that long ago in Poland (now I don't think that any major city have them anymore).

[@Feyser1970]

I remember Ikarus buses in Peru, south America, in the 70's, I found them again in Saint Petersburgh in 2005 and couldn't believe it, and still running in russia.

[@WalterWhite_2077]

Én erdélyi vagyok. Ugyan úgy exportálták ide is a buszokat, mint a többi vasfüggöny mögötti országogban. Nem nagyvárosban lakom, de a 2000 évek közepéig még használatban voltak. Ha jól hallottam egészen az ország déli részére is elértek. Kicsit vicces belegondolni hogy a Bukaresti gyármunkások magyar buszokkal mentek be dolgozni :)

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

As a jamaican i loved those Ladas we got from the former Soviet Union. The sedans had these lights that were unbelievably bright and the Lada SUVs were great. Ridiculous 4x4 capabilities. Only 4x4 back then with 4 wheel independent suspension and sub frame for the front.

[@Martink9191]

rear suspension is not independet. It has one solid axle.

[@SofaKingShit]

Nice. Funny, the SUVs were also surprisingly popular in Australia in the '80s. Had a sort of anti-cool vibe going on. They were relatively cheap, easy to get fixed, and fairly unreliable.

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

@Leo Walzim Thousands. as a matter of fact many of them are still running to this day. Both the sedans and the SUVs

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

@Leo Walzim kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmWXaJiYfN-Nha8

[@windoak2113]

@@jussayinmipeece1069 my family lives in jamaica but I've never seen one in my visits ;/ do they just all stay in the rural areas?

[@guarenchafa4912]

Lada's made their way into the Canadian market in the 1980s. My parents (being pro-Soviet) decided to buy one and it had split fuel, normal 87 octane and propane. At that time, propane was super cheap on the Canadian market, but I do remember that it had poor performance to the point were the car could not climb hills while running on propane fuel.

[@grimwaltzman]

Kinda interesting to hear that, considering that gasoline quality in USSR pretty much required cars to be able to run on almost literal piss

[@ThorneyedWT]

@@grimwaltzman typical gas for civilian drivers was A-76, which forced to use low compression rates and to some extent limited revs. As a result, high displacement engines behaved more like diesels and low displacement were just weak. But the worst part were soviet carburetors, you can significantly improve soviet car performance by swapping original carburetor for Solex.

[@royale7620]

There were Canadian Dacias as well

[@hillaryclinton2415]

My old Lada is heaven .. I can't make it not run. It doesn't go straight, quiet, smooth, or pretty..but it's mine..

[@stebro2738]

Just well said! I think it must make one feel like we've had it soo good here in the US... We are spoiled when you remember that people waited for one of these for 9 years. We need to cultivate "an Attitude of Gratitude" Too much entitlement!!!!!

[@fallty]

The wiper story reminds me of life in the early 90s in Bulgaria where it wasn't uncommon to wake up and find that your car is missing its wheels and headlights. Fuel siphoning was also a big issue because you'd get one tank for the month. Soviet cars did not have locking fuel caps so I've seen padlocks retrofitted to the fuel flap.And yes, God help you if you forgot to remove the wipers, they would be gone in 5 minutes.

[@pacificostudios]

A Soviet ship was caught in the ice of Lake Superior during the 1970s, and the crew was rescued. But they had no warm clothes, and they were in Duluth, MN during the winter. So they were brought to Target on Miller Hill. They were amazed to see a brightly lit store filled with shelves of goods, including clothes, all in perfect condition, you could just put in your cart. They were all certain they were in one of our "special shops" set aside for party leaders or whatever. They could hardly believe that Target is as typical an American store as you could get.

[@bobgnarley1]

Fascinating to hear about the lives of ordinary people during the cold war era. Apart from mayday parades etc, we were given very little information back then. Thank you David and Sergei.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Soviet version of Porsche: rear engine, air cooled and that's where it ends. 🤣🤣🤣

[@AtomicReverend]

Corvair would have been a better comparison as it was an American sedan/wagon that was air cooled for the masses.

[@gillespriod5509]

To be fair thats a copy of the nsu prinz

[@Random-nf7qb]

@@gillespriod5509 They are completely unrelated

[@bmstylee]

@@AtomicReverend Corvair? Ralph Nader is interested in your location.

[@JT-io3rz]

It was a copy of German NSU Prince

[@derekscott7912]

I can remember being in school in the 1980s the joke went: Why do Ladas have heated rear windscreens? So you can warm your hands while pushing them.

[@charlesdorval394]

Ours was: How do you get Lada parts? Follow another one.

[@PobortzaPl]

I am quite sure this joke was told every time one of Soviet Bloc made cars get heated rear windshield. I know that joke being told about Polish made Fiat 126p

[@thearousedeunuch]

@@PobortzaPl And about the Yugo.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

What do you call a Lada with dual exhaust pipes? A wheelbarrow.

[@michaelbenardo5695]

I thought that was for the Skoda.

[@lexbor3511]

7:12 As a Georgian I can admit - yes it was the case. Some Georgians had big money in the last 20 years of the USSR. 1970-s, 1980-s. But it was more complicated than just us exploiting poor Soviet fruit supply. Anyway after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Georgian economy in 1990-s some Georgians where joking - ehh, what a colony we lost - meaning Russia.

[@UshankaShow]

Thanks for conformation!

[@thomasburke2683]

I suppose Eduard Shevardnadze was one who made lots of money in the 80s and 90s. He probably made even more as president of Georgia.

[@unglaubiger5645]

I´m glad to have my Lada Niva. It hasn´t let me down yet and plows through pretty much everything. These cars are so good, they still make them. The new ones even have modern high tech features like electric windows and a digital clock.

[@yakacm]

Yeah, the Russian military used them so I guess they had to at least be OK. TBF I always thought they looked cool, when they were last sold in the UK, they had a 1.7 GM sourced engine, the same engine used in Opel/Vauxhall.

[@ursa_margo]

I used to have VAZ 2107 and it was absolutely amazing. I mean, as soon as I installed modern electornic ignition distirbution system, of course, because mechanical ignition distibution is basically a time bomb. There was only one thing I missed in this car: air conditioning, which simply was not a thing in the USSR.

[@greengiant1017]

My grandpa had 7th lada with was considered luxury class back then..it got stolen out of garage. Garages back then didn't had solid ground so it was just grawel..someone diged a big hole underneath and just drove it through..😂 To get back car you needed to pay money for gangsters to get it back..that was completelt normal back then..my father has his audi100 in a secure parkinglot somewhere in early 1990 when my country became free from soviet union..so parkinglot security guy was with gangsters and that car got stollen..so my father payed some money to get it back..mafia basicly controled country back then.

[@CastilloinaSpeedo]

I can't tell if this is serious or satire...good job sir!

[@motiejusjuozapavicius2144]

You are from Lithuania?Cause of audi100

[@greengiant1017]

@@CastilloinaSpeedo why would i make this up..?

[@greengiant1017]

@@motiejusjuozapavicius2144 taip iš Lietuvos. Tėvo "silke" kažkada Kaune iš aikštelės balta pavogė..😬😬

[@robertoazuaje9279]

I can only imagine what your grandpa's face was like when he found his car missing and a big hole where it used to be. That's mental (and hilarious too)

[@xmanhoe]

Excellent video ! When Ladas first came to Northern Ireland my Uncle worked for the local dealer , his job was to install glass sunroof, alloy wheels , radio cassette player etc to make the car more luxurious for the buyer . Years later we had eastern block ships docking in Belfast port and the crews would buy up any Ladas they could find ! Even if they where scrap , they loaded every space on the deck and then whilst sailing back home the crew would strip the cars of parts ...the leftovers where dumped in the ocean ! I imagine there are 1000's of lada bodyshells at the bottom of the Irish sea 🤣 My friend owns a lada Riva that he rents or TV / film sets .

[@UshankaShow]

That's very interesting! Thanks fir sharing your story!

[@Dave_Sisson]

The Australian importer of Ladas had so much trouble with them that they stripped all the electrics out of every car and replaced it all with locally made equipment. . . I recall the first time I saw a Russian flag anywhere. It was on a ship docked in Hobart in 1992. I was taking a photo of it when a member of the crew demanded that I pay him for permission to take the picture. I was only a kid, so I was a bit scared and walked away.

[@xmanhoe]

@@UshankaShow Thank you Sergei for giving us an insight to former Soviet life

[@xmanhoe]

@ 3:05 Kreosan drove one of these into the Chernobyl exclusion zone and onto Pripryat😬😬 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIKaeqyFrs5mrrM

[@IrishPartizan]

Nothing wrong with a Lada. They were built for the tough conditions of the Russian climate. The Lada Niva is a great jeep.

[@Mugofbrown]

There's a rumour that Nivas are being exported again. They had a good reputation.

[@avdcrx5441]

the lada niva will never get sold in usa and canada.the cars cant pass safety tests

[@19ThreeLions97]

@@Mugofbrown buy old ones, new nivas are told to have weak chassis. but yeah, my grandfather preferred lada to smaller western cars like golf 1 etc when they started importing them

[@ssm240sx]

Believe it or not, Lada sold their cars in Canada between the 70s and 90s, one of my friends has owned a lot of canadian Ladas and still owns one

[@noth606]

Irish Partizan Lol yeah right. I'm from Finland, our climate is the same as northern Russia and we had lada etc cars imported due to the trade forced with the USSR back in the day. They are piles of shit, they are much less strong than Japanese cars for example and they crap out due to the cold much more often. The only people in Finland who drove those piles of dung were communists and people who were too poor to buy a proper car. I knew a guy who had one and he was really old so to help him out I used to fix his car and in return we'd go for a drive and he'd buy fish and cook it and heat the sauna up and so on. The car needed work basically of some form constantly, the carburetor didn't keep adjustments and had to be tuned and set every damn time you wanted to drive. The electrics were a joke. Everything on that thing was junk.

[@burkezillar]

I'm in the UK and I own a 1976 Lada 2101. It doesn't have a radio, or an aerial, or rear heated window, or power steering, or head restraints, BUT it does have a light bulb under the bonnet. In this respect, the Lada was far advanced than western cars. I've never owned a western car that had a light bulb under the bonnet.

[@jst7714]

My giant American luxury land yacht Buick Roadmaster that never breaks down has a light under the hood. My Jag that always broke down didn't.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

​@M Bacon Actually the Lada 2101 [Riva] was more reliable & durable than half the cars sold in the UK in the 1970s, 80s, or 90s....

[@maxcristi6493]

@@davidhollenshead4892 an old one is still more reliable or at least cheaper and easier to fix than any car sold since early 2000's

[@2paulcoyle]

Battery. Wire. Switch. Light. Return wire to battery.

[@MeDicen_Rocha]

Its there so you can see what you are doing while mending the engine when it inevitably breaks down

[@meganoobbg3387]

I just started working during college, and i had enough money to buy either a Golf, Astra or a 318 BMW. And i did the most logical choice - i bought a VAZ 2102 estate and had enough money left to drive it daily to college and back for 2 years. All my collegues told me im a fool, but they dont drive their fancy capitalist cars daily, cuz they got no money left for fuel, and they wait for buses in the rain, while i drive every day in my warm and cozy Lada. I go on long trips too, ive done 1000km trips in a single day, going to the beach or mountain resorts. Its pretty fun to drive, and ppl at the gas station always ask me questions about the car.

[@xgamerbih]

Meganoob BG ladas are actually pretty realiable, not bueatiful but reliable

[@meganoobbg3387]

Jan Wilsgaard when he made the Volvo 140 he said "simple is beautiful".

[@southjerseysound7340]

@@meganoobbg3387 are you from Bulgaria?

[@southjerseysound7340]

@@xgamerbih Lada's are insanely reliable and super easy to repair. I've got a Niva for my place in Bulgaria and there's nothing I can't fix with like 3 sizes of wrenches and sockets.

[@meganoobbg3387]

da lol

[@VladderGraf]

Loved this episode. In Poland, we had basically identical situation as I remember it from the 1980s. To get a car you also had to be on a waiting list, have a special coupon, wait your turn and then pay for it. Like in the Soviet Union, you could re-sell your car for more than factory price cause the demand was so high. From my childhood, I remember just a few cars next to each block which is a sharp contrast to what's happening today with many households owning more than one car, and high school kids driving to school in their own cars - when I was in school, I thought this only happened in America like in the movies we watched. In the 1980s Poland, you could have our local models like Warszawa, Syrena, Mikrus, Polish Fiat 125, Polish Fiat 126 (an amazing car called "the Little One" with astonishing 24 hp engine, but people would go on family vacation to Bulgaria in it, and once I went with six other people in one) and Polonez. You could also have Sovet-made Łada, Zaporożec, Moskwicz or Wołga (which came with its own urban legend about a black Volga going round the city and kidnapping children), Czechoslovak Skoda, Yugoslav Zastava, Romanian Dacia, or East German Wartburg, or Trabant which people called "Honecker's revenge" or "the soapbox" cause its body was made of plastic.

[@run2fire]

Dziękuję bardzo for the information

[@beadsman13]

Same in Bulgaria waiting list for cars. People sell their turn and then go for cheaper undesirable cars. I remember my neighbor had a Warshava the other one had a Wartburg and the guy next to us had a Zhiguli we had Moskvich 408. Maybe now is the time to say that this was at the end of the 80s. And there weren't many cars but now you can't find place to park your car. Only big people had Volga and everyone dreamed for black Volga. Nickname of Trabant was Farting Hans and cardboard box.

[@VladderGraf]

@@beadsman13 Lmao "Farting Hans" - I love the name :)

[@thomasburke2683]

Seven people in a fiat 126 from Poland to Bulgaria is not a holiday, it's torture.

[@882952]

I was interested in the Soviet Union as a child, just because of how different it was in so many ways. But in my adult years, I had opportunity to meet some people who emigrated over (to the US) and I loved hearing all their stories of life. In the end, although our governments had their differences to say the least, the people were... just people. Yes, some different attitudes about some things, but they love their kids, they enjoy company of friends, they want some of the good things in life... just like me. Later I even met a Russian lady who became my friend and I stayed with her in Ekaterinburg for two weeks, meeting real Russian people and doing real Russian things. It was great to live real Russian life with these kind, generous, curious people. Let me tell you, when you go into a Russian home as a friend, it doesn't matter how poor they might be, they will put every piece of food in the house on the table for you. They will ask you all about life at home, and laugh at your stories, and hug you and wish you well when you leave, urging you to stay in touch. Side note: I took a TON of photos while I was there, and I got held up leaving the airport for just a few minutes because the guard checking luggage was suspicious of all the photography I had done. (It was 2000 but old habits die hard). Finally he got to the photos of my lady friend, which were just a touch on the risque side, and he blushed and shoved them into my bag and waved me through, haha! Good times.

[@ggsay1687]

It is funny for me, I'm Russian listening person from Russia, who talks in English about automobile industry of last years of USSR. In quite amazing time we live comrades.

[@dimitrynaumenko5461]

I'd like to see more stories like this. My Soviet father and I really enjoyed watching this.

[@kraanz]

Your father is still Soviet?

[@MephLeo]

@@kraanz lol

[@vojislavl6665]

@@kraanz once a soviet always a soviet

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

They only need the activation code to wake up

[@1QU1CK1]

Love this episode! I first heard about the Russian Rain Dance in the early seventies from my Russian professor at UCCS- David Nichols, who we called Starik Nikolski and who learned his Russian in the CIA. He learned about wiper theft the hard way! At the same time was a soviet cartoon- a guy is selling car parts at a table in the square, his customer asks if the parts are stolen and the reply is: Goodness no! They come from where I work! Nichols also worked as a translator for the State Dept. We asked if he always translated everything accurately and he said, " It does the cause of peace no good to translate insults."

[@petethebastard]

A colleague, when I was in the Army, bought a Lada Niva… Always breaking down, we called it "The Warsaw Pacts Revenge!"

[@hughmungus1767]

petethebastard - When I was at university here in Canada, one of my friends decided he needed a car and decided to buy a Lada because he could get a brand new one for about the same as a decent used one would cost at the time. (This must have been about 1980.) He soon regretted this bitterly because it frequently needed expensive repairs. After a couple of years of this, he got rid of the car. He said he'd spent two and a half times the purchase price on repairs in about two years.

[@mr_mmelk2230]

I would love to see more specials like this. Love this!

[@TheColdWarTV]

We have more episodes like this planned.

[@n4zou]

I found a Dnepr MT-11 sidecar motorcycle in a barn last year (2019). It had just 164 Km on the odometer. The right cylinder had zero compression, which is why it had so low Km. I had always heard that you must take them apart and put them back together again correctly. They were correct! It was imported into the USA in1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I rebuilt the motorcycle and have it running perfectly now. It's now my favorite motorcycle! Part's for it are easy to order and get from Ukraine taking about 3 weeks to arrive. I would love to have a UAZ 452 "Bread" van but they can't be used on the roads here in the USA. They are being imported and used for off road use here. Most owner's replace the engine with a BMW Diesel engine for reliability and easy part's available in local auto parts stores.

[@mihaiilie8808]

It would be a pity to change the motor with a bmw.Keep it original as it is a valuable bike in the original state. In a few years these will be more and more expensive.

[@n4zou]

I'm keeping it all original. I have seen BMW Motorcycle engines fitted to a Dnepr gear box but that changes the frame as well so there is no going back. I think the Dnepr engine is good enough when built correctly. Anyway I like it just the way it is. I don't think it will ever be valuable here in the USA. Over in Russia and Ukraine they could become valuable and collectable because people remember them from their youth. It's simply something different here and collectors here have no real interest in it.

[@BilgemasterBill]

@@n4zou As you likely know already, the similar Ural, also based on BMW's prewar R71 and still made in Russia in the town of Irbit, has a hardy and enthusiastic fan base in North America. The Dnepr, made in Kiev in Ukraine, enjoyed a brief period of exports to the UK in the '70s under the "Cossack" brand. So if you're looking for hard-to-find parts for your Dnepr and "dicey" Ukrainian or Russian vendors on eBay or elsewhere don't satisfy, try those UK vendors.

[@TTromp]

The Dnjepr was à copy of the Wehrmacht Zündapp 750,a military motorcycle with a take-off axle to drive the wheel of the side car. They could also pull a Light field gun or a Pak (antitank gun). It was à rugged, dependable motor cycle. The Rusians copied itbut in a sloppy way. Now onder that you had to take them apart and assemblee it in the right way.

[@madeinsrbua932]

About apartments per parking spot calculation, i dont know about USSR, in Yugoslavia (also communist/socialist) rule was: One parking spot per apartment

[@nondvcordvco4244]

First car I drove was Zaz, second was jiguli and in the beginning I was struglling with shifting to reverse, while I was guessing the how to do it, the stick shifter disattached :)

[@paganarh]

Father got his Lada permit but there weren't any cars in at that point, so he went straight to Tolyatti where factory was, 2000 km trip.

[@paganarh]

@Travis Johnson Soviet times :) You needed a permit to get an apartment, car and later even foodstuffs with introduction of rationing :D

[@thevoid5503]

Ah... the LADA 2105. Some of my relatives had one and they loved it. It was strong, rugged, easy to maintain. Not a bad car all in all (at least the export models that we got here).. They were nicknamed "T80 zonder kanon" (T80 without a gun) or "Russische tank" - Russian tank. Netherlands.

[@axelschurlein8180]

A polish friend's grandparents owned a Citreon Traction Avant, this car had been abandoned by the Axis troops at the end of WWII, his grandparents had kept hidden it for over twenty years. Apparently it was their most prized possession.

[@jaanuspapp1333]

yeah no wonder, anything an i mean anything western was worth more than its price in gold in the USSR. that car was probably worth more than their entire neighbor hood in the soviet market

[@royale7620]

Same in Romania there was a 1938 Chrysler Royal hidden in the wheat, it had like 120 HP and a V8 far better than what the commies were making crappy little inline 4 engines with 50HP

[@laurelrunlaurelrun]

I wondered why the rock star at 25:22 was holding a pair of wiper blades. Even though the Mercedes has them installed, it must have something to do with the theft issue discussed later. "Look how flush I am, I've got an EXTRA set of wipers!"

[@jurisprudens]

He was an acoustic guitar star. )

[@silverrain530]

I don't have much interest in cars but I loved this video. It was really interesting to hear how life was like during the Soviet Union.

[@wolfgang757]

The Chevy NOVA was very popular in Mexico. The people knew it did "go" and it sold very well. That story is just an urban legend.

[@danrook5757]

Wolf Dancer : actually not it’s not. My friend Jose from Mexico told me no one buys Nova

[@giorgibolotashvili6666]

i don't know how it was in other ssr but in georgia many people just bought car instead of waiting in a queue, i just asked my grandfather and he told me that he bought two cars and paid 25000 total, and made enough money to buy two every year and he was just farmer, lots of people made that kind of money as well. you could speed up queue by paing bribes. again i dont know how it was in other ssr but in georgia people usualy robbed collective farms, and sold products all over soviet union

[@StanislavG.]

Georgia was one of the wealthiest republics in the union, a popular tourist destination (the famous Georgian hospitality being an important part of it), so no wonder you grandpa could afford changing his car every couple of years. And of course upper middle class in big cities had it better than the rest of the country, so in Moscow it was common to get a new car every few years. My father had a Zhiguli that he traded for a newer "Petyorka" that he totaled and got a "Devyatka" a few years before we immigrated.

[@giorgibolotashvili6666]

@@Reichsritter georgia is not slavic

[@19ThreeLions97]

Oh yea my mother told you guys had a garage with black volga next to every house. And that it was hard there as an estonian bc you guys offered jus so much food and wine everywhere lmao But in kolhozes, everyone stole. In other countries rather to survive than to sell tho...

[@MrXenon1994]

This is by far my favourite video of the series. I'm so fascinated by Soviet cars and the trials and tribulations of getting a car, and what kind of people had cars in the USSR. I learned a lot. Thank you both!

[@lucimicle5657]

My grandpa told me that in Romania in order to make sure there where not too many cars on the streets they were one day allowed to drive only the cars with an odd number on the licence plate and the next day only the even number cars. I think it was done to save fuel or something. We also had the waiting lists. And the roads were made out of gravel, at least near the village of my grandpa, but mostly carts were going on them so no problem.

[@vladimirkurtovic]

In ex-Yugoslavia was odd-even days system for some time

[@ziroja]

In ex Yugoslavia we had Zastava cars, and many were made using Italian design. In the 70's we started buying western cars, and that was a revelation to everyone. In the late 80's Volkswagen even made a factory in Sarajevo, so we had homemade German cars.

[@seventhson3228]

In the late 70's VW started production.

[@vladimirkurtovic]

Don't forget Opel IDA from Kikinda and Renault & Citroën from Slovenia

[@robervin4384]

Very good. Thanks. My 2 high school buddy's dad was from an Eastern block country ( can't remember which)......he got out 2nd attempt and made it to Toronto, Canada then Flint area in Michigan; was slightly wounded the first time running off on maneuvers (he was a military conscript).......so the story went. He worked skilled trades at GM. He made sure his boys got new trucks at 16 & boy did he love vehicles/mechanical stuff. Neat guy (friggin' hard worker) from what little time I knew him.

[@seed_drill7135]

The ultimate Russian barn find was the only known first generation 1930's Toyota in existence.

[@head22head]

What music score/ song is playing in the background near the end of the video?

[@gregorytimmons4777]

Wow! That's cool. According to a Jay Leno segment i saw when he went to Japan and drove a Toyota 2000 around a parking lot Toyota built a replica of one of their earliest cars. They couldn't even find one to restore.

[@fernarias]

The lada was so successful that it's still prominently featured in russian dash cam videos.

[@CloseUp1961]

A great segment and Sergei is a nice guy.

[@robmclaughjr]

You'll never forget the Trabant if you get caught behind one in a traffic jam (cough, cough!)

[@mihaiilie8808]

Im building mein electric or hibrid chargeable electric. Best car ever made and an insult to consumerism.

[@pw3848]

Back in ČSSR my gradpa took it as personal challenge to overtake any Trabi as soon as possible.

[@andybeckett4340]

With basically a lawnmower engine

[@Artanis99]

Oh yes the engine was as colleague above says barely above lawnmower one but it was possible to stick Wartburg engine into it with minimal modification which nearly quadrupled its horsepower

[@Nikolay_Milenkov]

I remember when I was little like 5 we still had trabant and even on the best roads it felt like you drive off-road like on rally or smt.

[@prytification]

I grew up in Eastern Germany and my parents had a red Saparoshez. It was a great car, in winter a bit slippery due to rear drive, but hell, it took us ANYWHERE we wanted to go. It finally died in 1993, clutch problems that could not be repaired.

[@Mystakaphoros]

This is one of my favorite videos you all have ever done! The bits about the windshield-wipers and seatbelts were especially fascinating.

[@trizvanov]

When it comes to Lada, only the "top spec" model just as 2106 with a 1.6L engine cost almost 9000 rubles. The rest of the line up was between 6000 and 8000. Also, the average salary in the early 80s was around 150 rubles, not 50. Still as you said, it's a lot of money.

[@grimwaltzman]

He did say 150. Though by that time most factory workers made more, around 250-300, so it was a bit more possible for them. Still expensive af though.

[@BoskoBuha99]

Still remember our first family car was a blue Lada. My mom sold it when i was about six and she bought a new red Yugo :)

[@xgamerbih]

Strgar Strgar I’m soon playing to buy a Yugo too. Here on the Balkans you can get for around 500€ in perfect condition.

[@AtomicReverend]

Here in the states yugos are gone, they were so cheaply priced I think everyone drove them until they broke and sent them to the scrapyeard. I few years ago somebody mentioned one and I had forgot about them now I have been looking and there just isn't any left.

[@xgamerbih]

Yeah even here they're getting fewer and fewer by day

[@BoskoBuha99]

@@xgamerbih The old Yugo is a classic but i dont like the new Yugo Florida much.

[@BoskoBuha99]

@@AtomicReverend Perhaps we should start exporting them to the States if the demand get's a bit higher :)

[@kostis2849]

As a poorer country, Greece was full of Ladas and Dacias well into the 90s. At least the ZAZ was considered trash , maybe I have seen one on the road. A few Moskvitch too. Lots of Skodas of course.

[@atsekoutsoube]

Really special episode. Brings me back memories. During the 70s in Naxos island - Greece there were at least two Volga taxis and one Moskvich. Had used all of them. Actually one of the Volgas was the taxi of my mom's village. And if this is not enough, during early 80s a friend of mine owned a Trambant. It was just fine.

[@SRFriso94]

The funny thing to me is that my grandfather owned a Lada (no, he's not from the Soviet Union), and he bought it because it was cheap. He quickly found out why: it's rubbish. But the best part about that car was the toolkit, he always said, which does make sense. If it broke down, which it would, because it's an Italian design built by the Russians, and you're 30 miles from the nearest village, you had to be able to fix it yourself. So yeah, Lada, bad cars, good tools.

[@UshankaShow]

Ouch! But a good story! )))

[@christopherconard2831]

The reason the big ZIL and ZIS cars used by party leaders look like 40's/50's era American cars is because they basically were. Stalin liked the big Packards made in the US, so he ordered the equivalent be made for the USSR. Despite the myth, Packard did not sell the parts or production equipment to Russia.

[@hewhoneverdies001]

I heard that the Soviets simply stole some blueprints and reverse engineered the Packard.

[@xgamerbih]

Jóhann .Fönix how can one steal blueprints and plans? More likely got a license

[@tomfrazier1103]

Other big shots under Stalin were assigned Buicks. Ford A and AA trucks were built from the early '30s into the 1950s. An Opel Kadett factory came back as a trophy after the War, and it was called the Moskvich.

[@MihaiD259]

My dad had a Moskwitch, and we had the carbouraetor on the balcony in our flat every second weekend.... The car was loud, that accelerating my dad described the Moskwitch noise as: "a gypsy girl full of gold rings bellydancing" But he backseat was more comfortable than the living room counch made in Romania

[@klaspeppar5619]

The fun thing is that “Lada” means barn in Swedish and yes they sold Lada in Sweden.

[@UshankaShow]

Zhiguli Lada = Barn Gigolo

[@klaspeppar5619]

@Leo Walzim I have seen one or two, but there are not a lot of them left. They were sold on the Swedish market and Trafikmagasinet tested the "riva" I think it was called on other markets. If I remember correctly, I think it was called Lada 2105 as "Riva" means demolish in Swedish.

[@mrtachanka607]

My grandpa was gifted a Moskovich when he worked for the Cuban government. Beautiful pearl white Moskovich and reliable too. He sold it a long time ago but dang do I miss that car. Also my father used to drive an UAZ when he was in the military! Wish I could import one of those to the US, even if it wasn’t as comfortable as the Moskovich it really had and amazing 4x4 capabilities and Diesel engine!

[@tinatpasselepoivre]

you can if it is 25 ish year old no ? (grey import I think it is called)

[@gregoryosborne4076]

I love hearing from this interviewee, would love to hear his input as we advance to more modern events!

[@StephenSocci]

He has his on KZbin Channel, the UShanka Show. There are a great number of interesting subjects and presentations.

[@okleydokeye2854]

My new favourite Channel. Nice interview, it's always fascinated me far more learning of actual real life experiences rather than high powered ones.

[@nicholaskelly6375]

My late Father Maurice Kelly wrote two books on Russian and Soviet cars. The two books were on pre revolutionary vehicles and luxury cars used by senior officials in the USSR and China. Dad did a great deal of research into the Soviet and Mao Zedong era Chinese vehicles. Regrettably most of his work was never published. He also visited the USSR to carry out research (He also worked in China in the 1970's in the automotive industry) We lived Shoreham By-sea in Sussex, England. The town has significant port facilities. During the 1970's and 1980's large numbers of Soviet ships mainly bringing in timber cargoes visited. Well it was very common to see second hand Lada's loaded as deck cargo when the ships sailed! This was because they were quite cheap on the second hand market in the UK and usually deals involving Soviet spirits or cigarettes etc etc could obtain cars. Only trouble was that they were left hand drive being built for the UK market! The Trabant were perfectly good as they were based on pre war DKW designs. The main problem was the grotty East German 2 Stroke Oil. Stalin had at least one Rolls Royce. Also in the mid 1930's due to the overcrowding on public transport in Moscow Khrushchev suggested that British double deck trolleybuses should be imported. As a result in 1936 an AEC 664T vehicle was ordered. It proved to be successful (A single deck version was also acquired at the same time) As a result of the successful trials with the AEC it was decided to order eleven very similar locally built vehicles the Jatb-3. Dispite being built in the USSR they looked very British! They entered service in 1938-39 all eleven as well as the AEC survived the war. The Jatb-3 vehicles being withdrawn between 1948 and 1953. With the AEC being withdrawn in 1948. Apparently one of the Jatb-3's survived until at least the late 1950's being used as storage in the Fourth Trolleybus Depot. Whilst Khrushchev was very keen on double deck buses apparently Stalin wasn't as he thought that they would easily fall over!

[@sigor2011]

Our family had ushastuiy zaparogetc. After words we upgraded to Model 1 and later model 3 Lada.... those were the days. My grand pa was in military and his line was only 3 years and not 9.

[@manderse12]

This was fascinating! Thanks so much, Sergei.

[@mikehydropneumatic2583]

A Lada Niva is a pretty cool Soviet car imho. What surprised me about the SU is that nobody up in the office thought of that people desire things and made a planned economy around that idea.

[@sanderdejong66]

Funny how rumors can be true. I grew up in Western Europe, in the 70s, and one of my teachers told us the story about the wind shield wipers. He had never been to Russia, there was no such thing as the internet, but this was known in our little town in The Netherlands. And so it turned out not to be propaganda, but the truth.

[@conradsz]

Not many of course but people traveled around to the other side of the Iron Curtain

[@ilyakutsevalov]

Thanks for the great video! Just a very minor correction: the garage seen at 15:07 is actually factory-produced, not a DIY thing (of course you still had to assemble it yourself, but it was a readymade kit). My grandfather bought one for his 2101 back in the 70s and in a slightly modified version it still serves me as a shed in my backyard.

[@olliefoxx7165]

Wow, those customized Soviet era cars looked very cool. I'd love to see more on the cars and the people customizing them.

[@seed_drill7135]

My Latin teacher used to say the Omni Miser window stickers Dodge used to slap on their cars translated to "totally wretched" in Latin.

[@johnadams3038]

I have to say that guy has a really great sense of subtle humor. Really enjoyed this.

[@UshankaShow]

Thank you!

[@hughjass1044]

Very interesting video! Thanks. I'm fascinated by all things automotive. My friend who is from Belarus told me that in the old days, used cars were more valuable than new cars because there was no waiting list.

[@ethanpf449]

Love the Farewell to Slavianka in the beginning.

[@christofschwarz6602]

So, here I am - an Austrian, owning an export VAZ 2107 from grandpa. Oh am SO looking forward restoring it, and driving it around in Austria :D

[@UshankaShow]

Lucky you! Can't believe these cars are such a hot commodity these days

[@christofschwarz6602]

@@UshankaShow Yeah - me neither :D When I got it, everyone told me, to scrap it, and get something better instead. Eventually, I got a bigger car, but the little Lada stayed, and will stay with me until I die :D

[@rosswebster7877]

Great episode and nice break from the serious tone of the last special. I’m loving these collaborations with Sergei!

[@thedreadtyger]

what a pleasure to be able to listen to this conversation!

[@meteor5452]

I was in a former soviet central Asian republic this past summer, it was cool to see so many of these still in use. I have photos of zaphrogets Ladas Volga’s and of course many trucks.

[@user-vh1sh1xl5k]

Thanks of putting this video together, had few burst of laughter! Our family had our first Lada O1in mid '70, my parents had to borrow money to buy it. Apartment, car and dacha - very true observation. And yes, Ikarus bus was very popular, unfortunately sometimes fumes were leaking inside and it was a killer as you can imagine.

[@wtfhlostonparadise8278]

Drove a Lada Niva in Bolivia. Found it to be a well built spartan 4 wheel drive.

[@Jay-ln1co]

I remember mother telling of an acquaintance living in the Soviet Union who, with the aid of some foreign friends bought a Saab or a Volvo with a bunch of spare parts to take back to the USSR, but got it confiscated at the border.

[@JTA1961]

A real Saab story...

[@datathunderstorm]

@@JTA1961 😭😢

[@dzonikg28]

Off overheating.. When I was very young in 70s in then communist Yugoslavia my father had Zastava 750..which was very small car air cooled.. So when we would go to holiday in the summer to see side you need to pass lots and lots off mountains in Montenegro so he drived with open engine hood or engine would overheat

[@Soundbrigade]

My collegue at the small plant where I worked outside St Leninburg had a Zaporozhets and once he had stripped the motor (two MC engines actually) down and laid out all parts in his garage. Then came his mother who needed some space for something and just put all parts in a big pile …. 🤦🤦🤦

[@tomaszskowronski1406]

28:23 Legend says it that the first wipers were stolen by a bunch of kids for a joke. The owner couldn't get new wipers so he stole them from another car. Then the next guy stole them from another. then the next one, then the next one. The rest is history.

[@victorcabanelas]

Even though I'm not really into cars, this was an interesting special. Loved the music! Keep up the great work, people!

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

The music was bloody annoying!

[@MrDruism]

Great video! Thanks for the history lesson and info on life in the Soviet Union. Listening to someone talk about something they lived through instead of learning about it from a 3rd party gives more depth to the subject. plus it helps to put things into perspective about life in America in comparison to life over there. I would love to listen to this guy talk about a variety of topics about life in the Soviet Union. Please make more videos with him!!!! Thank you sir for taking the time to give us this amazing history lesson! BRAVO!

[@kikufutaba1194]

It is odd I grew up in Soma-shi in Japan, my family never owned a car and I had never even ridden in one until I came to the United States for University.

[@TheWedabest]

Wow that's crazy! How old were you when you came to the states and saw cars?

[@19ThreeLions97]

japanese car culture is so weird. Some bring your old used cars to europe, in my country they just sold a 90s audi 100 with only 20k kilometers on clock.

[@demogaming8895]

@@TheWedabest she/he probably saw cars, just didn't sit in one

[@timothytietz9194]

Hemi-cuda.

[@neilfoster814]

I'm from England, and I own a 1988 Trabant P601 Kombi, such a cool little car that gets attention everywhere we go!

[@abdelhamidmetwally2266]

Ladas were quite popular in Egypt up till the early 90s.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Because they were made in Egypt and they could handle bad roads...

[@gregorytimmons4777]

I see Lada cars in documentaries on Cuba. Lada and old U.S. cars.

[@julemandenudengaver4580]

Stil miss the Lada 2104 i had... Such a good wagon i had I would love to have a 2101 My brother have a 1974 Trabant p601.. that's a really fun thing to drive I the start 1990ies sailer's from former ussr brought used Ladas in Danmark for creap in docks to take home and sell

[@Duececoupe]

Back in the day....late 80', early 90's, when I was still living in Sweden, one of my close friends (sadly no longer with us) owned a Lada 4x4 and later a Vaz....didn't matter how cold it was, they always started in the winter, only our own Volvos and SAABs came close! I'd love to get my dirty mittens on a UAZ-452 bus, I've for one or another reason grown fond of that one! 🤨🤔😆😂

[@Duececoupe]

Great video btw, looking forward to see many more like this one! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🥇🏆

[@Dave_Lock]

We still have some Ladas in Mexico.

[@k3kboi665]

I owned a moskvich elite and loved it. Always warm, alwasy started and hella easy to fix. Whit some fuckery you could make these cars go faster than you were daring to drive. Good times! :D