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Okay so it may seem a bit mad that I love this little car so much. But when you get to drive all the latest and greatest news cars it's great to come back and remember what cars used to be like. There's something pure and simple about the Fiat 126. And in this video I'm going to show you round my own Polski Fiat 126p aka Maluch.
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[@MatWatsonCars]

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[@jpb2541]

Doug would love this car

[@sameerafokeena2271]

subscribed 2 days ago Luv ur channel and i never forgot to hit the bell icon 😉

[@rayndaimlermotorsports8908]

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[@rakibulhossain7203]

I did

[@chronicallyacute9665]

Hi Mat! You bought a great car! My grandma has got one, but she didn't drove it for 2 years because it is broken.. Are you planning to do something with maluch or no? Maybe some motorbike engine swap or even electric? Then, it would maybe pass the emission test. I don't know how it works in England with engine swaps etc. I'm from Slovakia, neighbour country of Poland! Have a nice day!

[@mcair1991]

When i was 16 i stole that car from my father at the night,to take my girlfrend for the ride. Good that it's so light, becasue i had to push it from the garage without turning it on, so my father won't wake up. Golden times...

[@ImranIsak]

GLORIOUS

[@charonboat6394]

And when you wanted to have sex with her all you needed to do was to remove headlights to make space for legs

[@Eray2007]

Um

[@03gxm3zz9]

Woww😭

[@Eray2007]

Wait, thats illegal

[@Ihbi]

This is very safe car. The crumple zone ends at the engine

[@rumcajs009]

Same like Mercedes.

[@LegwanPL]

Yes. Front crumple zone ends at the engine that is in the back xD

[@dennislucas8745]

LOL !!

[@MichelLinschoten]

Ihbi hahaha you won the internet today

[@deen84]

@@MichelLinschoten In Poland, this text about FIAT126p is as old as the world.

[@GiacoC]

Borring are those channels when they travel around the world in todays LandRovers and Jeeps. Imagine travel around the world in THIS in crew with 2 trabants. Czech/Polish/Slovak crew did it.

[@LiseK_]

there is a guy who travels like that, he's called Arkady Fiedler, his channel on YT is called the same. So far he drove thorugh Asia (Poland -> Wladyvostok, Russia) and Africa in electric and in Fiat 126p car (Poland -> Egypt -> Republic of South Africa)

[@janrendek]

Hey, we had Lada 1200! And it took us only 2 1/2 day to arrive to Bulgaria! Greetings from 🇸🇰

[@TermlessHGW]

Yup my father had one of those in white. Rarely did we get somewhere further than let's say 100km without something going wrong. Also traveling in winter I was in my full plush clothing and under a blanket to keep warm. Ahh those where the days.

[@kobre1149]

Polish guy here, my grandpa used to have one of these, whenever we'd visit poland we'd go on trips in it. such a nostalgic car and such an awesome one at that. I still have that engine sound memorised haha

[@krzysztofpoznan5226]

It has some safety systems like horn, warning lights and brakes

[@frmbeats3672]

:D

[@androidexpert-ar-6074]

Lmao

[@pracakosaipilarka4301]

Seatbelts!😎

[@farmoboy83]

And none of them especially good...

[@huseyinuguralacatli5064]

@@pracakosaipilarka4301 seatbelts can't stand in crash tests

[@arthdenton]

I actually saw them in Poland being driven with 5 people inside. Poles joked that it was the only car blessed by the Pope. BECAUSE IT's IMPOSSIBLE TO SIN IN IT.

[@miskowski1500]

Old joke. BJ is absolutely possible. I scored a few :)

[@michamalawski8749]

Believe me, it's possible. :-) Pope was not informed.

[@ROGERUS31]

80% of the owners have different option about it 💪🤔😁

[@witboj8281]

17 people - thats the present record: teleexpress.tvp.pl/20283641/17-osob-w-maluchu other possibilty: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2Grlolnr62MnsU

[@mlecyk1111]

only 5?, we used it for going dance club, record was 10 :), 3 must drive it, 1 on sterring wheen, person under driver brake, clutch etc and passengers on right change gears hahaha. kaszlak rules hahah (and sin its posible xD)

[@wiktorszymczak4760]

I will never forget this one time when i was like 7 and in front of McDonald, there it was, small fiat (as we call them in poland) turned into cabrio. It was blue, painted with wall paint. And fifth whell mounted on back like some kimd of jeep. Core memory.

[@leonboualag4120]

Maluch 😁

[@wiezyczkowata]

I saw one as well, red one, it looked cool

[@karolbociek9359]

The quietest car in the world, because your knees cover your ears 😃

[@sabiopervertido7704]

Hahahahaha nice one

[@muratveli]

In the late 90s I saw one of these with a sticker at the back which read: _When I grow up, I'm becoming a bus._

[@deanagoes2791]

😅😅

[@KevinMeyerSSK]

Hahaha

[@taalpeter2685]

or "I`ve found it in a kinder surprise egg!"

[@bostjanerjavec4146]

Or: My other car is Porche

[@uvenarbulis1724]

i remember when these stickers was popular and it was easy to find and buy

[@brian_mwaura]

"No airbags, we die like real men..."~ Fiat 126 Yes Matt, make more videos!

[@ludwiks971]

pfff, not only are there no airbags, you dont get TC, ESP, ABS, etc. I am an owner of the Fiat 126p and, I tell you that in this car you really feel that YOU are driving it. It is all your skills that matter.

[@ObviousSpy]

Poland didn’t have any airbags until 2003

[@brian_mwaura]

@@ludwiks971 Most defintely... the simplicity of the car is as endearing as it is astounding. So is the driving... In a way (at least to me), the lack of safety systems are sort of ways of ensuring some safety...who would want to be caught in an accident at 50mph in it?

[@JAnx01]

@@ludwiks971 Yeah, all of this crap + automatic transmissions inflate car prices ridiculously. I've hear replacement airbags alone can cost up to 4K. Soon they're going to take driving from us altogether. All things considered, it's just a terrible industry. Terrible, terrible.

[@justacrlon3963]

Are u saying that real men are stupid?

[@slowmikespace]

my mum had this car from 1979 to 2013, although it was repaired often due to its fragility. i had the chance to do my first drive with it, kinda hard but those cars literally makes you learn how it works, it's like having a kart under your hands

[@MrKotBonifacy]

That "stereo" is actually a "mono", AFAIR... And it is tuned to radio frequencies long abandoned in Poland, as around (mid?)nineties they switched to different frequencies (I believe, higher ones) - so people with expensive tuners in their stereo systems (all of those were "expensive" by "general population standards") had to re-tune them.

[@peterkirgan6850]

Think the radio was made by AWA??? Always wanting another !!! Lol

[@vlu1652]

@@peterkirgan6850 Unitra?

[@fungo6631]

At least it will be able to receive Russian OIRT radio via E Skip.

[@MrKotBonifacy]

@@vlu1652 UNITRA was a major manufacturer (AFAIR) of "all things acoustic" (turntables, tape recorders, radios and speakers), so there's a high chance the radio was made by UNITRA. But then there were other producers of radio sets, so it's hard to tell with certainty. EDIT: Just took another look at the video, and indeed one can alearly see, @ 2:45, that radio with UNITRA name and logo on it (just above the left knob). Model SAFARI 5, of a highest quality, as indicated by a number one ("1") in an inverted "rounded" triangle preceding the model name. Mind you, "highest" is a relative term - like in "highest available" or "possible" (under prevailing circumstances, heh heh...).

[@tucatnev123]

The Hungarian joke is about that this is the quietest car on the world, coz' when you sit in, your knees are covering your ears.

[@slavosahin]

Same joke about this car in Slovakia :D

[@75srbin]

tucatnev Sta ti madjari seru?! Da nisu mozda napravili bolji?

[@andymusicstudio2485]

which is literally true since I had one like that and my ears were just between my knees , I'm 187 cm :)

[@melchizedekful]

@@75srbin pofád befogod usztasa.

[@szczur0192]

In poland it's the same, I guess the joke is known everywhere.

[@petergala2147]

I'm Polish and I'M living in Chicago USA NOW. My father bought and gave me this car in 1986. I drove my 126 Polski Fiat. all over THE place in Europe. I still vividly remember my solitary trip from Istanbul Turkey to Krakow Poland 3 days...2 nights Through TURKEY...BULGARIA....YOGUSLAVIA..HUNGARY...CZECHOSLOVAKIA ...BACK TO POLAND. JESUS CHRIST ...I MADE IT

[@WISHER0]

That requires really big balls actually. You must be so brave

[@amoresperros6241]

You still alive ?😂

[@petergala2147]

@@amoresperros6241 I'm still alive ànd kicking

[@domenicocicchetti7107]

mate ...they dont build strong car like before, 126, 500 and Fiat Panda :)

[@user-fk6bg2yx9k]

sounds like Jalopy...

[@itisorisit]

"Soft touch material" on the dashboard, a.k.a. the airbag

[@duroprem]

Other than in Poland, this thing was also licensed and built by Zastava in the former Yugoslavia under the designaton 126 PGL. Which in turn gave birth to the nickname "Peglica" which roughly translated means "little iron" (as in the iron you do your ironing with). It was decently popular here and it was my mother's first car back in the day. And like in Poland, we still smile every time we see it on the road these days, which is extremely rarely.

[@franfinesim]

Same in the Balkans! We start smiling, when we see Peglica, Yugo, Ficho or Stojadin

[@bandiras2]

And when it breaks down, you can wear as a backpack

[@mantyxxx]

when it breaks you need key nr 10 and a hammer and you're good to go

[@neildavies2276]

I had one as a stopgap when I was restoring my Beetle. One day the accelerator cable broke, so I drove home using the choke cable to get the thing to move. Loved it!

[@ivuldivul]

At school we used to prank people driveing these: 4 guys would pick it up and carry to different parking spot.

[@lucasquattrucci4122]

No airbag, but a picture of Padre Pio on the dashboard to protect the driver 🔥🔥🔥 Italianity level 100

[@Hundseier]

I currently have a Gaz 24 Volga with a picture of The Virgin and baby Jesus on the dash for precisely that reason!

[@christianfelipe7084]

Hahaha

[@wojciechmotkowski4804]

this car is Polish :)

[@Max-uv1js]

@@wojciechmotkowski4804 I'm sorry Polish friend. The fact that FIAT has outsourced some production, doesn't make it "Polish". Otherwise we could say the world is Chinese :)

[@wojciechmotkowski4804]

@@Max-uv1js it is already!

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

This car reminds me of my childhood. When I was a kid, every second car in Poland was this car. It was everywhere!

[@littlebluepanda394]

One of my teachers when I was at school had a 126p and I never knew what the "p" meant. Thirty years later I just found out - thanks Mat.

[@errorelo1774]

126p Maluch = 126 Polish little

[@michalklucz6907]

in the '80s, the most popular SUV, MPV, pickup, and campervan on the Polish market

[@adeelm9028]

haha had to read that twice lol

[@FlorinC1984]

And some Polish families even attached a 2-wheel trailer to it. I remember Polish tourists visiting Romania before the '90s in these tiny cars, 4 people, huge pile of luggage on metallic racks on the roof and a small trailer attached to the back.I was 6 or 7 at the time and I simply couldn't understand how so much weight was pushed along by this tiny little motor.

[@michalklucz6907]

@@FlorinC1984 f126p and niewiadow.. the most common summer combo: mklr.pl/254650 :)

[@crebegea]

@@FlorinC1984 Yeap! Amazing, and I thought they were some sort of super cars back then. Come to look at it, they look worse than our old Dacias. Still the Polish rocked these little things in big style.

[@wino0000006]

Jeez - I remember travaling in this - 3 adults, 2 kids and a dog.

[@sumilidero]

Now it's even rare in Poland and we do smile when we see one on the road :p

[@wolfsokaya]

I rarely see them around here,like the rest of the old east block cars.Most was probably killed by rust and time. :]

[@akseli5790]

There was lots of these cars in Havana.

[@eindein5031]

sumilidero wypierdalaj cebulaku

[@sumilidero]

@@eindein5031 Hahah odezwał sie expert, iq taboretu bez jednej nogi. Schowaj sie jak nic nie masz do powiedzenia na temat.

[@TheGinajekul]

It's same in Croatia! We don't see them very often nowdays :(

[@nathansstuff1547]

I see a DankPods video where he's bought this car, and now I see this.

[@spencercorby4571]

And someday, you might own one!

[@acev1212]

Jeździłem taką maszyną pamiętam😂😂... to były piękne czasy I ten dźwięk i wrażenia

[@Xariod]

RWD, Light, air-cooled engine in the back. Basically a Porsche!

[@Fuckingenius]

ehem... with brakes without a fuckin servo. its so safe and cool...

[@AR15.666]

Xariod and the yougo is basicly a Bentley.

[@Xariod]

Wow so many people can’t recognize a joke nowadays :0

[@AR15.666]

Xariod you don’t reconize the joke have you watched top gear ?

[@Xariod]

@@AR15.666 i was talking to Mind_less. But yes i admit i forgot about that joke. You mean that time they went in Albania to try luxury cars right? And bentley didn't give them permission to film the bentley because they were talking about "cars for mob bosses"

[@zawiszaczarny7876]

All you need now is a sticker that state "no airbags, we die like real man"

[@zawiszaczarny7876]

@Vedran Tonković en.dopl3r.com/memes/dank/meanwhile-in-polska-no-airbags-we-die-like-real-man/656561

[@justenzo6342]

No those are so cringe

[@MrK20000]

@@justenzo6342 No it isnt, its what real men need. Unlike you, you insufferable oaf.

[@z-trip5457]

@@MrK20000 CLARKSON!

[@hansdietrich83]

Pure cringe

[@hatboi_xd]

Its an absolute NUGGET!

[@JacobSilverlake]

Fun fact: this car was also nicknamed "Kaszlak" (from word Kaszel which means cough", due to the sound it's engine is making. As somebody who grew up in Poland in the 90s I can also say that if you owned one of these you were one of the cool kids hahaha. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed watching it ☺

[@Hoodinski]

Fun fact: due to the sound the engine made it was also called 'Kaszlak' - 'the Cougher' :)

[@UpfulWarrior]

In Serbia they were pretty common back in a day, and they had a nickname "Peglica" - The Clothes Iron

[@agrorolatv4897]

@@UpfulWarrior fiat 126 was exported to serbia? I didn't know!

[@UpfulWarrior]

@@agrorolatv4897 In tens of thousands! It was the first thing your parents buy you when you get a driving license back then.

[@bluruckuscrx8124]

@@UpfulWarrior Yugoslavia*

[@bluruckuscrx8124]

@@anabukis.9528 what does that have to do with my comment? I also don't agree with your statement

[@pepikkrul4296]

As a Pole I certainly wasn't expecting that little thing here

[@channeltv6595]

Pepik Krul as a lamppost neither was I

[@stinkypodracer7210]

Pepik Krul same

[@janchojnowski527]

As a Pole you must expecting very little thing.

[@Seele2015au]

Pepik Krul They were quite popular in the 80s and 90s in Australia as well.

[@perezes83]

Wydaje mi się, że Mat ma polskie korzenie. Może stąd pomysł na zakup malucha.

[@kevinbezon3108]

what a beautiful nugget this is, someone's been in here for sure

[@niespiebozwiedzamszkocje]

Im polish and 42 this year, been living in Scotland since 2005 so quite a wee while now:) And what i can tell is you made my eyes wet cos i owned 4 of them back in the 90'. One of them was 1979 then another two from late 80' and my last one was a pure beast after tunning in 1995! :) great film btw :D

[@h00d276]

This car is famous in Poland for being an anomaly in terms of physics - namely bending space. Anyway you try to fill it with luggage, there's always space for some more.

[@the_weeb_lord1017]

My dad would never shut up about how 8 people and their luggage would fit in it

[@amon6109]

WAS popular in Poland not "is" I havent seen one in traffic in almost 20 years Also my grandad used to have one.

[@frmbeats3672]

..i made thousands of miles with this one in the past, and its a "solid piece" :)

[@pyroVoid]

Amon when i went to lezajsk to visit my family 8 years ago i saw a few of them

[@after_midnight9592]

Same in ex-yu countries. Whole families were taking trips to the seaside, but now we can't seem to fit everything in a decent-sized crossover with a roof box.

[@TheBalcerman]

I'm polish and gotta tell you: everything you said, mentioned is spot on. Love it. Excellent review of polish Maluch.

[@HQWagon]

Mate you are charged with Treason, or Sedition..both... you bloody traitor....you're going down pal...sorry bro

[@kombi7826]

H.Q. Wagon why so much hate ? He just gave an honest comment about the video... calm down buddy

[@kombi7826]

doctorwho0077 I’ve driven the fiat 126p 1983 ( The fl version)- I had a problem but with the 1/3 gear, when I was in second gear- a lot of the times when I tried to hop into third it just went back to first- it does get time to get used to it but when you get used to the old gearbox it’s a very pleasant car to drive and defiantly grabs a lot of attention!

[@bonergarage6679]

Kurwa najlepszy samochód stworzony

[@HQWagon]

@@kombi7826 I guess tongue in cheek never works on social media

[@WildFire-pg2ll]

I'm in Poland rn visiting my family, then I saw the 126, my mom said "it's an incredible car, it can hold 11 persons in it !" And alot of other things...

[@SkeetRadar]

this is probably gonna mess up my recommendations, but I love how practical and simple this car is. I feel like it'd be a great one to convert to electric.

[@KayDotG0121]

they already did years ago :D two different people both with different ways but electric :D and it sounds like tesla xD check out these links kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4i2lKqMirWYrrc kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGHZgHp6ZaibbpI its in polish tho and no subtitles. but still very cool. ^^

[@angryboi801]

A polish man actually made an electric one, it straight up looks like it could be put into production

[@mareksicinski3726]

ppl have done it

[@GabrielRodrigues-ej2ul]

Converting it to eletric takes all the soul out of the car

[@waldemarpierzchalski]

It's faster than light, when you drive fast enough the lights are dimming.

[@marcosferreras7772]

Lol

[@GhostOfDamned]

True

[@konstantinosanastassakis453]

My girlfriend in the 90s had one in Budapest and I remember the brakes were amazing! BTW, there is a trick to DOUBLE the value of your Polski: you fill the tank!

[@armaansaumya]

😂😂

[@rxivild]

Let me drink and my tank will be filled, then I am two times more valuable? Wow. True facts, I am Polski Człowiek.

[@Porabany]

Thats the first time in the history of mankind that anyone called Polski instead of maluch o_O

[@notmasterdelectronics]

Yes xd

[@lukkruk6904]

To triple the value you put the banana pack in

[@kitingforlife]

I got the exact model of this car (I was 20) back in 1979 (Including the color). I drove it in some scary conditions, like fresh deep snow and on long distance trips loaded with people and luggage. One of my favorite “features” was the stretching starter cable. After some time, the only way to start the car was to push the starter from behind with a stick. The fuse box was in the hood trunk and the way to get the ignition on was to put a coin between the first and the second fuse, which made it the easiest car to steal. Thanks for the video. It made my day!

[@Depression156]

thats a beautiful looking nugget right there. make sure to always keep your emergency wood in the front trunk

[@SuperMarioPL89]

This brings back memories .. me my parents and my 2 sisters and a dog on a 12 hour journey to the seaside .. 😂😂

[@MashabaZA]

Amazing how a car can bring back so many memories.

[@danish5332]

how can you fit 5 person and a dog on that small car tho😂😂

[@oskar744]

@@danish5332 where there's a will, there's a way 👌🏻

[@Wakeupproductions]

I'm from Italy

[@djviruspl]

@@danish5332 U Dont know the life :) I remember when it was around 6-7 of us inside ;) But record is i think more than 12 ;)

[@timbarito5586]

Click on the top banner to see how much you can save on a new 1982 fiat 126 lolol

[@KNhunterX]

I legit was expecting Matt to say the intro jokes, and have the Carwow intro played, and then Matt explaining how much you can save. I laughed way too hard

[@JohnDoe_Poland]

Hahahahaha

[@mikerelvas]

You win lol

[@ilya.b]

More important question is: Should we avoid it? Shold we consider it? Should we shortlist it? or Should we just go ahead and buy the little Polski Fiat 126p?

[@JohnDoe_Poland]

write2chrome and the answer is! Buy it as a second or even third car if you’re over 35” you’ll appreciate it!

[@MassimoBolognaItaly]

My father used to have this car in the 70s... it's the first car I can remember being into, and this video brings back so many memories.... It was just as basic as it looks, basically metal, plastic and some wiring. I remember pushing that odd gummy button to spray some water on the windows , the hardest you pushed, the more water you got !

[@lechocki]

I spent so much of my childhood in the passenger seat of my grandad's Fiat 126 "maluch".! It was an absolute deathtrap, but I loved the little pop out windows it had. The footwell had a rust hole in it so you could see the road as you drove along. Good memories lol

[@mgecko2959]

Im Polish and I can confirm that this car was worth twice or often three times as much if you wanted to sell it new. But it wasn't exactly a waiting list, in communistic Poland you could only get "a ticket" from your employer that allowed you to buy one. It was like that with everything. Anyway I remember my dad got ticket for one of those in early 80's, we had old 13 year old one at the time and we went to pick up the new one. Two days later my dad and my uncle drove to sunday market with second hand cars to sell the old one and they managed to sell it for 10% more than we paid for brand new one 3 days earlier. My dad even got offer three times the price for the new one but nobody back then was interested in selling it, who knew how many years would pass before we would be able to buy new one as it wasnt simple 2 year waiting list like i said. Anyway this car doesnt even belong to Polish car history, history basically is this very car. We also had licenced Fiat 125p which was a 4 door sedan, Polonez FSO which was a 4 door fastback and Syrena 102 and 105 but no other car came even close to what Fiat 126p made for Polish history. Literally not one person born in Poland before 1980 that wouldnt own that car at some stage, you could repair it with screwdriver and hammer alone, it was extremely cheap and reliable. Even the most recent renewed version from late 90's only costed around 2000 pounds brand new. And in 80-90's this car definitely made over 50% of all cars in Poland.

[@martinrafaj6096]

How much would this car cost in Poland? like in good condition, i want to buy one but there are not much of them in my country which is wierd because a bunch of people had it back then.

[@mateuszkowalski9229]

@@martinrafaj6096 For Polski Fiat in average condition, you have to pay min. 4000-6000 zloty (910-1365€). 2275 € and more for really good condition.

[@mgecko2959]

@@martinrafaj6096 they got pretty expensive compared to where they were 10-15 years ago. Back then you could get one in very good shape for probably 500e and average ones as cheap as 100e or even less. But like I said in last 10 or 15 years the price is constantly going up, you can still buy pretty shitty ones at 150e but one in very good shape can cost anywhere from 2000e up to 5000-7000k which is crazy cause brand new 20 years ago they were retailing at 2.500e LOL. But back then there was more 126p on Polish roads than rest of cars combined, now there are less and less and considering how huge part in history of the country it played it became a must have classic. In all honesty Im planning to soon invest in one and restore it

[@SuperJakur]

bardzo trafny komentarz (informacja)

[@thabomotsoane2246]

This is the longest comment I've ever seen

[@Spencer481]

6:27 adjustable intermittent wipe AND flashing hazards?! I didn't realize this was a luxury car

[@lt1caprice57l]

I mean even my $38,000-in-1990 Volvo 760 station wagon doesn't have adjustable intermittent

[@michagorecki5265]

The memories, awesome xD. Thanks for making a video about this little gem :D

[@Eccentric_Villain]

Imagine the stop and stares people give with a good sound system installed, in Australia. My first manual i learnt to drive in was this very car. It was always a fantastic conversation starter, being a teenager and turning the music up while cruising around town I always got the smile, stop and stare which in turn made me chortle. I will always remember this car with fond memories.

[@hub7569]

Good choice Matt 👌☺️ Best regards from Poland 🇵🇱

[@leothekitten9810]

Huba Popolsku jestesz?

[@hub7569]

@@leothekitten9810 yeap 😎

[@hub7569]

@@dominikkowalski3499 tak wiem że to Włoski fiat ale mieliśmy takiego maluszka kiedys i dobrze kojarzy się z PL

[@dominikkowalski3499]

Patrze i ro polski fl tylko nie napisał 126p

[@kirbs2546]

elo polacy sie gromadzą

[@francoisbadoux625]

My grand-mother offered me, for my 20th birthday, a second-hand, "swimming-pool blue" Fiat 126. I owned it from 1978 through 1982... and loved it! I wish to share an experience I had with it. I was then a member of my university's ski racing team, over here in Switzerland. One beautiful day, following a snow storm which had deposited over a foot of snow, I went up to the mountains for a training day. The road was snow covered... and I had summer tires, as I could not afford changing to winter tires. I was following another car which, just before a turn in the road, suddenly braked for no reason I could have anticipated. I also breaded, but slid. I was able to successfully avoid rear-ending that car by swerving to the left... Unfortunately, a 3.5 ton delivery truck was just emerging from the turn, and we hit... left-front corner against left-front corner. Imagine, some 500 kg of Italian steel against a loaded Mercedes 3.5 ton truck! My front wheels were blocked by bent steel... but pulling on it with my ski-gloved hands, I was able to free them, and to drive away... but not before the police fined me for loss of control, though. Repairs cost me but a few hundred Swiss francs. But the truck didn't make it, and had to be towed away. My little Fiat 126 had warped the truck's whole cabin so badly that its doors coud not be opened anymore, and the poor driver had to exit through a window. I know from the insurance settlement that the truck incurred over 10'000 Swiss francs of damage... Brave, tough little Fiat 126, which won that fight against 20:1 odds!!!!

[@mjtwardy]

We had an annoying neighbor who owned one. He was always complaining about us kids being loud or playing football under his window. We were boys about 13-16y.o. and decided to piss him off. So one summer night we gathered like 8 guys, grabbed the sides of his Fiat and inch by inch we carried/pushed it between a lamp post and a wall. It took him a good hour an a lot of "kurwa mać" to drive it back and forth to get it out. He stopped yelling at us out the window after this.

[@free_gold4467]

Forza Fiat!

[@possibleproblem479]

jesus what damage model did car crashes run back then

[@MrKuncol]

That's because truck had crumple zones designed to take energy from crash and Fiat didn't had them.

[@mjtwardy]

@@MrKuncol Fiat 126p has a crumple zone, from the front bumper to the engine compartment.

[@glendryhurst8234]

We had a 126 and loved it. So easy to use, service & repair.

[@alfpolo29]

I think that this type of video like so much because in many people they bring back memories of the past :)And cars every type ,luxury or not, have some effect.

[@WoWMinGM]

Engine in the back, RWD and straight cut gears? Race car confirmed.

[@radekr1234]

Indeed, kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5Wlpqqwh6Z4d9k

[@bossingtonhillforever4267]

2 door italian car, engine in the back, rear wheel drive, if you get it in rosso red it's almost a Ferrari.

[@Me-eb3wv]

@@bossingtonhillforever4267 sick

[@MrTeusX]

@@bossingtonhillforever4267 its not an italian car ;) Polish

And air cooled ;-)

[@thomasnowotny7616]

My grandparents went to England in fiat 126p 😁 . 1750km from Poland to Nottingham .

[@petrberanek4230]

How about from Guayana to Ushuhaia, Australia to Thailand and from India to Czech Republic ? Sadly, first Fiat was rotten away after two years, therefore theu used second for second and third journey.

[@lukascholaj6842]

My grandparents went on a road trip to turkey in one of these from poland, truly a hilarious car, love seeing them out and about

[@ternf8608]

My parents drove from Tanzania to Cairo - then a boat to Venice and on to Rome in a Fiat 1500. Back in the 1960s.

[@phoenix06aneser24]

szacunek

[@victorstoulm3356]

To musialo byc straszne

[@adamadams8820]

OMG we used to have two of those cars when i was a kid. Indeed it was family car back there. So many trips as a 4-people family we did in this little ladybug. My dad could repair it by himself... and in the winter you had to pud some isolation to the engine vents othervise you could forget about starting this car. It was tough times back then... but believe me or not it was awesome stuff for us. I still love sound of this car, it reminds me of the childhood. Good piece of video you made here man! Good luck with this car! :D

[@dominikjarych6065]

I'm Polish guy living in Germany. Cut the long story short, big respect man. I did my licence with this car, was not so easy because I'm 193cm high. Later on I drove polski fiat 126p with a friend of mine more than a 100km/h in a city. Still have goose bombs thinking of it. Take care.

[@Omar.F87]

Lap it around the Nürburgring! That would be fun to watch 😂😂

[@tomaszbartkow3552]

Been done already...

[@Robertslawno]

Do you have free weekend ^^?

[@stevemarroquin9766]

OA 84 speaking of Lap, his shoulder seat belt... what happened to it???

[@TheSeanUhTron]

We're still waiting for the lap time. It's been 20 years but it still hasn't completed a lap.

[@muzgnasicianie]

It is possible with this driver kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5Wlpqqwh6Z4d9k in this „maluch” kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2bbp2ifjbGBmck

[@gabrieletuzi5411]

I was 5 and my mother had one of those, one day we were on the GRA (Rome highway) at almost 150 km/h and overtook a 355 GTS that was cruising in the right lane, cheering like we won the world championship. Half a km later we had to stop at a service area for overheating, water from the radiator cap was sprinkling like a fountain. 355 owner stopped for refuel and paid us a coffee. I recognize that moment as my petrolhead initiation.

[@wwiertus]

fiat 125p don't have radiator ))) its not water cooled 600 ccm engine (very early models),650 cm (later version) and 700 ccm ( used in 126p bis ,engine made by Lancia) , So your story with fountain of water from radiator is not true))) However speed 120kmh with 650ccm was normal with 4 passangers, with 2 passangers 140kmh was possible

[@gabrieletuzi5411]

@@wwiertus We had the 126 italian version 700 cc light green 4 gears, probably BIS model as you said, it had a radiator, and it did 150 km/h (probably 143-145 with measurement tolerance), at only-god-knows-rpms. Radiator cap was in the upper back on right side when you opened the boot. Was i there that day or it was you? Unbelievable hating these days.....

[@wwiertus]

@@gabrieletuzi5411 126p Bis (700ccm) could get into 150 km-h. 650ccm could get 140 like I said with 2 adult , or 125 with 4 adult . maximum speed 105 km-h was according some long distance test drive. So in fact it was interpolation . not a top speed on this particular moment. 600 and 650 ccm was air cooled, 700 ccm with Lancia engine was water cooled. Polski fiat 126p was development of Italian 126. more power. adaptation to colder climate, service etc. it was all polish development which make this car better then Italian original. same story was 125 127 134 142

[@gabrieletuzi5411]

@@wwiertus I suppose you're right. thanks for the infos.

[@londonfinancial]

the usual version did 105km/h the big one 700cm 115km/h there's NO WAY this thing could go 150km/h unless falling from a high brigde

[@reyhaz]

Owned one of these. Despite it's size it could go the Budapest-Warsaw length. One of it's key features is, because of it's motor situated at the back it can easily climb mountains (even if the road is icy, which I experienced multiple times with it and all it needs is winter tire).

[@nicodipietro]

Oh my goodness! THANK YOU for bringing this old little one back to life in 2024 and getting her known in the cyber universe! I was SO MUCH IN LOVE with this car when I was a little kid!!!! This brings memories!!!

[@jimmihenry]

4:00 back in the 80's in Poland you would have't got enough time to smoke a cigarette, this is how fast someone would stop to help you.

[@madmen2505]

the engine sound instantly transported me in my childhood. Thanks

[@christianobrien4465]

In my years as a young man in Syracuse NY I owned a fiat 134 tc special sedan which was very nice.. and later a fiat strata 2dr hatchback also wonderful. Honestly they were plenty of car for almost no money. Glory days of times gone away. Thanks for this video

[@pazoozoo78]

Superb video! It demands subscription. Greetings form Poland!

[@millaguisan]

I've been living in Poland for the last 10 years, and I've never seen a non-Polish review of a Maluch so nice, natural, and honest about it. Regards from Poland, I'm Colombian btw and getting Polish citizenship soon :) :) :)

[@embl_0]

bring me some cocaine

[@reno.zed1]

@@embl_0 Apparently you can drink Themes water, it's basically cocaine.

[@kilgoretrout6136]

Colombian in Poland. Interesting.

[@NearToTruth]

Good luck with getting your citizenship!

[@spectacular-fj5rm]

@@embl_0 😂😂😂😂😂

[@derpy_blue]

In Poland we always call those cars "Maluch". It means "Small One" or "Kiddo". You can still see them on the streets quite often. Maluch is really near and dear to our hearts :)

[@dixxon28]

it stands for toddler

[@alejandrobencosme4593]

That was our family car where I grew up in Dominican Republic. I remember working on the car with my Dad. It was in our family for decades. So many memories. Thank you!

[@VenetinOfficial]

This car is just adorable..! I wanna own this little thing SO bad, especially since I live in a suburban area where this is still pretty useful. Would be great to just use it and travel down to the mall with or whatever.

[@middle-agedclimber]

You should have bought it 20 years ago. Now they got pretty expensive, oh, the nostalgia :)

[@zorktxandnand3774]

"You do want the stereo to work" Ahem... the Mono!

[@enam98]

Hehe! 😂

[@billl605]

He wouldn't be able to hear it for the road noise.

[@zorktxandnand3774]

@@billl605 It's one of those cars where you can hear that the radio is on, but have got no idea what it's playing. Just one more thing to add to the noise.

[@supreme3376]

More like WHAAAT I did not HEAR U

[@Michas333]

it does a 0 - 100 quite fast, if you're falling off a cliff.

[@pablo7610]

Michaś 😂😂😂😂

[@janpintar5665]

Otherwise its 0-100 is measured with a calendar

[@supreme3376]

@Piotr Otulakowski 29 bbut close

[@Don_Matheo_87]

And that green leaf on back window wow 😍😍😍

[@nutshot_brawler8466]

Love this car, i got a video on my recommended of a Fiat 126 rally car in action and i was amazed

[@ReadyAimFire_]

This car has enough space for 7 drunken students. Tested. And world record is 17 people, mostly girls but still.

[@brianfriedman101]

haha true

[@adrianpiekos4555]

my mother got 12 in there

[@srdjanjanic]

1993.year, place Belgrade - Car: Lada Samara, Inside - 15 guys.

[@zajxperia3983]

@@srdjanjanic So weird I started imagining how to fit 15 guys in a car and nodded when I deemed it possible, lmao.

[@zord0nTV]

Hahhaahahaha I remember Guiness World Record talks in my school about beating next numbers hahaahahhah GOOD TIMES! Maluch all the way!

[@kimsuarez9286]

I grew up in Cuba, our first car was a "Polaquito" little polish like we call them. It was fantastic. Yes they were very sought after. My father earn the right to buy it at work. Yes, that is how the stuff used to be back then. I don't know how it manage but we were able to go up and down mountains with it

[@OlekW]

It was brave car :-) The same in Poland.

[@joyl7842]

My main memory of these from my childhood is seeing them ride around town during summer with their hoods open to help cool the engine (which is at the back). Also they are very uncomfortable to get in and out of due to how low the seating is, kind of like a MX-5 😄

[@dawsonbalencia3119]

Mat, I found this video a bit late, but I'm so glad I did. I love old FIATs and my first car was a 2000 Spider with almost the exact same quirks as your little gem here (the passenger door window winder fell off if you so much as ran over a bug). Thank you for making my day with this video and showing people the joy of old, questionaby built Italian cars.

[@eeervin3]

Sign up for it, then wait for years - basically the same purchasing experience you get with a Tesla but in Poland they had that in the 70's already!!!

[@TheGearhead222]

Same purchase history as the EG Trabant-People waited for YEARS to receive their car, so the used ones were more $ than the new ones!-John in Texas

[@VanlifewithAlan]

As I recall from Poland in the eighties the waiting list was much longer than two years - although there may have been times when the waiting list was 'only' two years!

[@onesandzeroes]

I did my driving course in this thing, including the final test. Back in early 1990s this was still virtually the only car used by driving schools in Poland.

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

Pawel X they stopped in 2002 I think

[@mravg79]

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 quite possible, 1996 still 126p was what I had during the driving lessons as well as during the exam. Two years later I got one it was my first car and with all bad that can be said about it is was fun to drive. I had the "facelift" version. from the outside and partly old partly new in the inside. it was renovated after the crash.

[@Decarts]

I love the smile when he starts the engine and drive. :)

[@lucombo]

My parents had three of them as second car...It was the one I learnt to drive with....Rear traction and super fun doing spinnings!! Unbelievable, I know, but you really can!!

[@fazekaslaszlo]

I grew up in Hungary and used to see Polish families of four plus luggage on top driving 800 miles down to lake balaton in these tiny cars

[@gtarbmx]

love from poland

[@OlekW]

I was at Balaton but with my big Polonez next after Fiat 126p popular car in Poland.

[@SQ8MXT]

My father drove from Lublin to Rome in one of those which is almost 2000km one way back in the 80s ;)

[@mickadatwist1620]

...to see Voytilla

[@MasonJarGaming]

I love this cute little thing!!! It puts a smile to my face. I wish they were more common in the states.

[@feszty]

Had one of these. Loved it.

[@mr.wyrzykowski7522]

my grandmother drove one of these. from the north of Poland. from elblag, to Sofia in Bulgaria. that was in the 70s or 80s. she said this car was amazing

[@januszolx7856]

Ten komentarz jest aby potwierdzić liczbę Polaków przy tym odcinku

[@DRMSLV.]

Nie wywołuj wilka z lasu xd

[@livelongandprosper70]

ENGLISH ONLY !

[@januszolx7856]

@@livelongandprosper70 i see you don't like our country, you shouldn't write that comment then. I do respect all countries becouse they are all important unlike you.

[@Matt-di6nb]

@@livelongandprosper70 There is something called translate on google. I know it might not translate exactly but still

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

rob b -polish people do speak English

[@cmdrTremyss]

From Hungary. In the early 90's, my family's first car was one of these in orange. My little brother and me were kids back then. My father is a very tall man and I remember he bumped his head into the top every time we drove through a road bump. It was so comic We made big holiday trips with it, suitcase strapped to the top, bags around our legs and in your lap too. But the thing I remember most fondly is the moment when he proudly showed us his car. Our car. Me and my brother couldn't believe it our family finally got one. We were in awe. I remember it's licence plate number even today.

[@GiovanniSpitalieri]

😂I remeber these cars all over my place in Italy...funny when you start the engine, reminds me when I was a kid

[@attila840702]

I'm Hungarian, my friend had one of these in around 2004. It was still commonly used back then, but now all of them have disappeared from the roads. There are only 16 for sale currently in the entire country.

[@Midaspl]

88 for sale in Poland. Back at the beginning of 2000's you could get one for 2-3 bottles of vodka. Now they cost more than my current car, lol.

[@robertkukuczka6946]

@@Midaspl Minden jót. Én lengyel vagyok aki Magyarországon szolgálok és tanusitom hogy a lengyel 125 volt a legjobb.

[@goexplorecroatiaadventures7630]

In Yugoslavia we called it "peglica", which means little iron (for ironing clothes) :-)

[@crvenilimun5036]

Ahhahahah jeste i fico ovamo u CG se i dalje voze

[@lieutenantbigz938]

This car looks nothing like Iron :D

[@regularjoe9032]

🤣

[@Milen4u]

And in Bulgaria "сапунерка" which means soap-dish :) maybe that's the car with most nicknames

[@patersul]

My mom had one.Good memories.It could start in the middle of the winter

[@neilsaeroadventures1116]

I'm sure dankpods has been here

[@xMSZx]

4:10 that sticker on windscreen is an old reg plate from my town, Wieliczka city :D

[@nestitv7104]

wieliczka city jebłem XD

[@ZGRAKIJU]

i remember entire families arriving in yugoslavia in this car.....with cargo on the roof.....it was insane

[@Kyrichenko]

"Peglica" was nickname for it in Yugoslavia :D

[@MrNoone-dg2xn]

You forgot the Camping trailer in the back^^

[@jakubukleja5383]

With 23 horsepower. Why do sedans need 150 again?

[@AurioDK]

We had one of these and a Morris at the farm where I used to live, we (the kids) used them to have fun on some old dirt roads no one else used, I was 10 when I tried one of these beasts for the first time, vividly remember the excitement.

[@markblaze10]

We used to have one of these in green before mom and dad bought the Volkswagen Beetle. Broke down an awful lot. Grandma had a little red one as well. Perfect if you live in a small town and all you need it for is to drive down the road for the shopping. Affectionately called "Kis Polksi" i.e. "Little Polski" in Hungarian. Grandad had an old Trabant around the same time as well.

[@Freyu92]

it aint much but its honest work greets from Poland

[@tree9380]

Maluch

[@catamenia8485]

9gag

[@acidlunatic6414]

@KiratCan Kerem Poland is much modern now, but we still have old slav manner. Our present government is a little shitty, but I recommend to go on a short vacation to Poland, we have really nice beaches, mountains, and lakes, but language is hard as fuck XD

[@Borkos16]

We have a saying in Poland about this car "The crumple zone ends at the engine" xD

[@lukaszszewczyk8571]

And it starts on drivers knees😋😁

[@fosterfuchs]

My mom had a Fiat 126 when I was a child. It got rear ended once. I was in the back seat at the time. I was OK. But even though the impact was not strong, the damage to the rear of the car was quite severe.

[@Borkos16]

@@anabukis.9528 bs ? Whyyy

[@artur6912]

@@anabukis.9528 Yes they did, just like they did say that the maluch has heated rear mirror so your hands won't get cold when you're pushing it. Also I'm not sure if you understand this, but it's a joke, that imply it's a deathtrap since you know, the engine is in the rear.

[@jonathanarcher1752]

Loved this video so much😂😂😂 Also didn't know you're so jacked 😏