The Cars of Eastern Bloc

[@linnex3561]

I am simple man: I see polonez, I click like.

[@13quinson]

yugo

[@masny_dzik4759]

Polonez ​@@13quinson

[@TheMiksi1]

@@masny_dzik4759 yugo

[@risticcc.9]

I see Yugo, i like

[@type3666]

I see Dacia Liberta click instant , as a Romanian .

[@rasmAn2]

A thing must be mentioned about Skoda. In 1991, just after the curtain fell, the Netherlands was building the Measlandkering. A huge, 2 horizontal Eiffel tower looking storm surge barrier. For this, 2 ball joints where needed, that would have balls of 10m diameter. Obviously, nobody makes those. The government just put the project out to tender, thinking surely there was someone who could. Nobody had machines capable of making anywhere close to a 10m negative sphere, so many companies either didn't put in an offer, or quoted something truly ridiculous. In comes Skoda, a little known car maker from the old eastern block.They want to take on the project, for a price that was well below any others. The Dutch being notoriously sensitive to a good bargain just say yes. A few months later the ball joints arrive, and they are surprisingly well made. Curious, some engineers on the project ring Skoda, and ask if they can come and have a look at the factory. Skoda says sure, but hurry. The engineers hop in the car and start driving. To their surprise, it turns out Skoda just turned one of their buildings in to a one off spherical boring head, whose only job was to make a 10m inverted sphere, and another giant lathe to make the ball itself. They were in the process of dismanteling it for scrap and spares, having finished the project. The engineers come back telling this story. The Dutch, liking bargains, big engineering, and bare faced can do attitude, have bought a surprising amount of Skoda's ever since. While the story is not that well known amongst the general public, it is part of nearly every engineering course.

[@lokasz9]

Although I love Polonez, my dream commie car is a green Skoda 120 with Polish pre 2000 plates

[@iuopunderstandyourjokes9914]

My grandpa had a green skoda 120 with east german plates

[@Payro]

​@@iuopunderstandyourjokes9914 German xdxd

[@iuopunderstandyourjokes9914]

@@Payro got a problem with germans?

[@bmwmanyjak8652]

@@iuopunderstandyourjokes9914 I'm from the Czech Republic, so I salute my East German comrade (I don't mean it in any bad way, but we were together as friends and I still respect that, I even went on exchange stays from the company to the GDR). We all had Skodas, Dad had a 120Le which was the version that had a four-speed gearbox like all the others, but the Le had longer gears on the highway. My grandfather had a 105S wide M and my uncle had a 130GL.

[@iuopunderstandyourjokes9914]

@@bmwmanyjak8652 my grandpa bought it at a black market. The only reason it didn't pass west german inspection was the makeshift trailer hitch. He then tried to scrap it but the scrap yard owner bought the car off of him because it was in such good condition. Now he drives peugeot but he still talks a lot about that car

[@bokexd3173]

the yugo is very reliable, people just don't know to maintain them properly....

[@CoRsaMan]

you are just wrong, the yugo were made destined to break down with how the production quality was

[@tosijjaan]

Well anything is reliable if you maintain them correctly Even BMW's, just barely

[@CoRsaMan]

Comparing a Yugo to a bmw is a long stretch, most bmws get ragged on by teenagers while a Yugo just has poor build quality

[@SoundBlasterAWE64Gold]

The engines started rolling coal after 30000 km. The interior was trash. The body was trash. Everything about it is trash. It was a terrible attempt at making a new "people's car", it was a poor recreation of an already poorly made Fiat. Zastava 750/850 before it was reliable and just worked, though it was an antique. Zastava 101 cost about the same and yet it was like a Mercedes compared to it. Better in literally every way. I still have all the manuals to my father's vehicles. Zastava 750? Perfect condition. Zastava 101? Perfect. Fiat 126p? Perfect. Wartburg 353? Beautiful. FIAT Uno and Tipo? Pristine. And so on. What about the Yugo 45 manual? Absolutely obliterated because the fucking glovebox was soaked in water every time it rained.

[@ens8502]

Reliance, yeah...if used only as a static garden equipment...

[@vladmachedon3191]

what about aro for romania

[@Aygo84]

and Oltcit

[@bobi2612]

And Roman trucks

[@Randomboi2137]

He probably forgot

[@bmwmanyjak8652]

Yes, he completely forgot about ARO. At the same time, in the former Czechoslovakia, these cars were driven by various companies. I also have one, an M461, it used to be used for state forests and a quarry.

[@pxrxlyzed.]

1 of the most informational videos ive seen 2024, 5/5 stars

[@Unidentified-forEVER]

Zastava and lada stays in my heart❤

[@stanciuflorin5328]

And forgotten in Romania by the Olcit brand, a Citroen made in Romania

[@Mihajlo94]

We need the bus version of this video

[@cllm1170]

Dacia 1300 had 4 body facelifts, the mechanical part being the same, with small changes to the engines, from 1999 they came with single-point injection on the same engine from 1969. it also had a 1.9d diesel variant from Renault starting from 2000 only on Pickup variant. It was produced in the sedan and station wagon versions until 2004 and in the Pickup version until 2006.

[@KarolSpinda]

I laughed hard when I saw the ultimate drifting village machine 😂

[@ens8502]

Polonez had nice design (and only design). In 70s and even 80s it didnt look outdated.

[@hellomadetScuffed]

Polonez was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, if his name doesn't ring any bells, he was a designer at: Bertone, Ghia and Italdesign

[@ens8502]

@@hellomadetScuffed looks like Lancia 😁

[@MrKata55]

@@ens8502 there even was a legend that it was a scrapped Lancia Delta design, but it was busted I think. Also it wasn't just the design, it was pretty safe too (the first Polish car with dedicated crumple zones IIRC). There are crashes involving FSO Polonezes to this day (last one was a frontal head-on collision with a semi truck in late June 2024 with a Caro Plus) and it seems to stand the test of time. It is also relatively simple and well-documented(I mean 300+ page A4 service manuals, all in Polish), something modern cars don't have.

[@meganoobbg3387]

Doesn't really if you put it next to a 80's US brick or a Volvo.

[@WacNate913]

my mother's HS Chemistry teacher had a Dacia 1300 (she's pretty sure he was Romanian and brought it to Canada with him)

[@plostinarudragos3973]

Not really, Romania used to export almost everything in the 80’s and a few Dacia’s were exported to Canada

[@CaptHollister]

It would have been pointless to bring his own. Dacias were exported to Canada. They were fairly popular particularly in Québec, in part because the Renault 12 on which it was based had been a popular model in its own right.

[@MrKata55]

A few corrections on the FSO Polonez section (I own one btw and my dad did too), 3:45 Overhead-cam shortens to OHC. It's technically still OHV (overhead-valve), but usually people mean pushrod engines when saying OHV. 4:35 the Audio System was there from the beginning of the production, it's just that: 1) FSO never mounted the radios themselved in production cars in the factory, just the speaker(s) and the respective wiring harness; The dealers then installed the radios on their part. 2) before MR'87 "Aquarium" it was monophonic - a single speaker in the center of the dashboard. Then they moved the speaker into the doors, at the same time changing the fabric/fake leather door pockets into plastic ones, making them stereophonic (one speaker for each side). In MR'89 "Przejściówka" (which would translate to an "intermediate" model?) the rear was completely redesigned, and the new plastic rear shelf sides allowed for two more speakers to be installed, making the whole setup Quadrophonic. Also, all the speakers were 100mm round ones, the factory ones were manufactored by Tonsil and had a GDS 10/15 designation I think (might've messed up the numbers). You can actually still regenerate them on factory parts since Tonsil does offer a refurbishment service. 4:36 The Rally version was there basically from the beginning (1978), by the MR'91 models the rally scene started dying out a little, the last resorts in the field being the early Caro models fitted with the K-series Rover engines (e.g. the all-white 1.6 16V "Abimex") which later entered series production in 1993. But as you mentioned, the FSO Polonez is a topic with no end. Oh and also the design was made by Centro Stile Fiat in 1975 known as Fiat X1/32 and X1/34 for the 3 and 5-door models respectively, and early Italian-made prototypes were shipped to Poland in 1976, so the offical production beginning on 3rd May 1978 was rather symbolic after setting up the whole production line and doing test runs for the preceeding two years.

[@ik2a]

Carmighty, is that you?

[@lancia2785]

The first series Polonez looked really nice

[@hughjass5062]

dude im so happy u mentioned the dacia

[@Alex2K]

Polonez bratan in action 🇷🇴❤🇵🇱

[@burgerowy8606]

Nagrywasz po Angielsku, region ustawiony na polski :D Jeżeli chcesz docierać do zagranicznych widzów ustaw se USA albo UK

[@PotentialGrim]

your profile picture loool it’s great

[@GarbyJeVrloDobro]

Something I find funny about the Gaz-24 is that the V8 you could get in it is basically 2 I4 stuck together

[@ИванКузнецов-щ7т]

на газ 24 ставили v 8 только для машин кгб ,у ивана зенкевича есть видео про этот автомобиль

[@meganoobbg3387]

Rumour - the Volga V8 was an aluminium block ZMZ engine from trucks, no 4 cylinder prior to 1967 was aluminium. Infact the aluminium Moskvich 412 engine was made from cutting a V8 in half - but that was common practice in the West too. Volvo's B18 engine was also a 4 cylinder cut out from a V8 truck.

[@Pretusz]

I own a skoda felicia, i love it that shit is so reliable and so much modification possibilities, and my friend owns a dacia logan van!!!

[@TIC-Skenderbeg69]

Skoda is based, I drive a Octavia 1.4 Litre.

[@FilK79]

YUgo had also an excited model, Yugo Florida. You missed a lot of brands here.

[@zaitsevvadym]

Talking about Tatra and forgetting to even mention The Tram is a crime

[@tymicreator1332]

In poland in the 50 60 s FSM aslo made syrena polish small city car like 126p and in poland we produced aslo trucks or van and buses we had portotypes of new cars too like syrena sport 125p coupe

[@acelvlad3383]

i actually own a 1961 sloda octavia combi, it was my great grandfather’s and it needs a lot of work, but once i get my license and fix it, it will be my own car

[@janpospisil4954]

I lived in East Germany in 1963 and the Škoda Octavia lagged behind terribly. They were dangerous in traffic, the front and rear axle suspensions did not match, and the car sometimes flew off the road. The Wartburg 900 sat lower, had front drive and the three-cylinder 900 was not bad, used by Saab. Back then it pulled 140/h normally, the later W 353 was already great, super disc 4 piston brakes, perfect chassis. I had it for 5 years, it started at minus 30 on the first turn of the key.....no garage, outdoors, driven daily...

[@IPlayKindred]

the lada classic series was and still is very very popular in egypt, can't go a single road without seeing one.

[@szyhau2]

when i see polonez i click

[@gheetza14]

A few words about ARO would've been nice...

[@cannedbeverage7687]

Cool but am bit disappointed by how short the Zastava segment was. Not mentioning the 750 Fićo and 101 Stojadin is a crime worth of being sent to Goli otok. (jk) What not many non-exYU youtubers don't talk about is the Yugo's facelift that was produced until the 2000s, the EV experiment Elektra and the very final Zastava, the 10 (a rebadged Mk2 Punto). The company went bankrupt and the factory was taken over by Fiat. The first thing produced under the new management was the Punto Classic (I think). Anyways, the Balkans have since been taken over by cheapo import diesels (I love pollution) but the Zastavas are still running strong!

[@annurissimo1082]

Yugoslavia wasn't part of the Eastern Block since 1949. So "Eastern Europe" isn't the same as "Eastern Bloc".

[@mamkintascher229]

No way bro didn't mentioned that GAZ focused on making vans and lights trucks

[@sutartlargehorn4585]

Wheres zaz and barkas?

[@danielnigel6920]

Yugoslavia was not eastern block country, it was non-allied

[@deceneudeceneu8908]

You missed a lot romanian things (1 st aeroboddy auto 1909, martha car ) etc

[@Verk2137]

🔥Kurwa Polonez 🔥

[@slawomirkulinski]

8:30 however Trabant's body can be eaten out by rodents. Just a warning, if you want to buy one check the body for signs of rodent activity.

[@MrKata55]

Or by a pig. As shown in the 1998 movie Crna mačka, beli mačor (Czarny kot, biały kot in Polish)

[@dougneon9550]

Me, A Bahamian: 🗣️ IS THAT THE GODDAMN POLONEZ?!

[@idonotknowwhyyoutubeletsyo5893]

The "AC" you mentioned with the Yugo wasn't actually an AC. It was just a radiator with a fan that prevented the car from getting hotter inside than it is outside. No pumps, no refrigerant. Basically just an overcomplicated vent.

[@boyarin2269]

You forgot about that 21st Volga also had v8s and they tried to implement an automatic transmission on a usual versions... And it has a cool folding seats that make a bed when you fold em. I own and love that car

[@rhrynq]

3:51 - new DOHC engines- 1.6, 1.8, 2.0 and 2.0 diesel. Diesel was a Polish engine heavily based on an Italian unit.

[@matyaskalab3176]

FSM was part of FSO and is still in business. Fiat bought it in mid 90s to build the Cinquecento, Seicento and 500.

[@santiagoibarra1137]

In Argentina, the AvtoVAZ 2105 was also called "Laika"

[@WippyOfficialChannel]

6:50 Aurel Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922-1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still rare among modern production cars), depending on the source.

[@autodequ559]

in Yugoslavia they rebranded fiat 125p to zastava 125pz

[@DemoTheDumDum]

As a guy who owns a 2101 i gotta say fun car and oddly reliable for a soviet car

[@obywatelcane6775]

4:58 - Polski Fiat 126p AND SYRENA.

[@lszlpesti]

My thoughts exactly. :)

[@ProjectExMachina]

Yugoslavia was'n in Eastern blok. It was non-aligned

[@SergeantGeorge]

Mój ulubiony polonez to Borewicz. Poprostu sztuka

[@CaptHollister]

Some of these were sold fairly successfully in Canada. When it arrived in 1980, Lada achieved the record for the most successful launch of a new brand. Ladas were inexpensive, they could cope with Canadian winter conditions, and while their quality was not great, they were still completely adequate transportation. Not as popular, but still a common sight, were the Skoda 130 and Rapid, and the Dacia.

[@TheJetJONES]

The only Eastern Car which was NOT successful in Canada: Yugo The price was (a Bit) Higher, than in the US. Also the Yugo Had stiff competition from Japan (Nissan Micra, etc...)

[@CaptHollister]

@@TheJetJONES Yugo's biggest problem was Yugo's build quality. What eventually killed it off, and ultimately all of the Eastern European cars, was the arrival of Hyundai on the Canadian market, in particular the Hyundai Pony.

[@andronalin658]

Why no ZAZ?

[@melterofsnowflakes]

There used to be RV dealers that would give away a YUGO with any RV purchase..

[@harnasabuser5677]

My OHV needs honey.

[@KarolSpinda]

Give the kurwa some honey

[@scrytox6981]

Trabant my beloved

[@TomasGraf-rr6co]

I always liked the Polski Fiat 125p. I thought it was better looking than the Ladas.

[@zoranjanevski3938]

Zastava cars were more than just Yugo 45. Zastava 750 was legendary although modest by performance, also Zastava 101. they were all skipped in this video. The Yugo 45 which was exported to the US was trash.

[@frozenman82]

Zastava was NOT from eastern block. It was Non-Aligned during the cold war.

[@MRD1300]

ARO the best 4x4. Oltcit the most futuristic mecanical solution. All from Romania. Not see in this video.

[@microwaveman456]

great video! wish you said more about the 126p tho.

[@krio1267]

11:39 Hugo is that you?? Why are you blowing up racecars??

[@Estonian_Femboy]

0:19 how tere u to call me gay

[@prikolica3567]

Montenegro strongest and straightest country in the world!!!

[@rriberoo]

make this guy famous

[@melchiorclaromonte4570]

Judging from your accent you're not an Anglo-Saxon eighter. And to put 1 thing in your brain CENTRAL EUROPE is swathe of land stretching between rivers Bug and Rhine.

[@azrifadli8777]

You forgot the Moskvich car brand (Russia car brand)

[@TheJetJONES]

Moskvich got revived recently

[@Nick_K1te]

Мне до сих пор не понятно, почему Polonez не экспортировали в СССР. Отличный автомобиль

[@the8thvictim]

Вики говорит, что в СССР было экспортировано 22 машины, кому-то повезло :)

[@CaptHollister]

Simple, the USSR did not import cars.

[@the8thvictim]

@CaptHollister In fact they did import some cars from time to time.

[@martonbevardi2503]

I've a colleague who had more commie cars than he could count (mostly volga m23s) and the only thing he says about the old Dacias that they could literally break their suspension and engine without even starting them up. Had a friend who had a dacia and he parked it on a friday evening and when he tried to start it on monday morning the timing belt got ripped and a suspension spring snapped. The car didn't even start. Also this colleague of mine only had one Lada in his life that wasn't a Niva and since then has a burning uncalmable raging hatered against all Ladas. The guy is a car mechanic and restores Volgas, so it says a lot.

[@76Schoeneberg30]

I never understood the motor politics back then from the eastern european and asian car makers. Usually in the west you had like for example in a car: Smallest engine 1 Liter 45 HP, 1.4 Liter 75 HP, 1.8 Liter 100 HP or something like that. I mean you saw an obvious increase of displacement and horse power. But the eastern were like. "You can have it with 1.1 50 PS, 1.2 55 PS, 1.3 60 HP or 1.4 65 PS. I mean its just a minimun change and often its odd numbers like 1.7 87 HP. Lada is doing that even to this day.

[@dzonikg]

My family owned one that is not on the list 1989 4 door Yugo Florida

[@the8thvictim]

It's a shame that Polonez never had a real deal coupe version.

[@krystian33100]

4:22 1.5 i4 and 190HP in an polish POLONEZ WT-

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Would be cool to go over car manufacturers from each republic of USSR. A bit limiting to review just two

[@progamingofficialpenguin2601]

You godamn missed a lot for Romania. We had much more car manufacturers

[@MarshallPeck]

I laughed very nice

[@Piotrullo_YT]

Are you from poland??

[@Burztur99]

Polonez is love, Polonez is life ❤

[@SerialDesignationJandthepen]

The fact that Trabant 601 or universal 601 had a same horsepower of a 2 lawn mower 😂😂😂

[@s.t.a.l.k.e.r9149]

naprawdę fajny film

[@kaneto88]

The V8 volga came only with 3-speed automatic and was only for KGB.

[@meganoobbg3387]

An ordinary man wouldn't want to keep it even if he could, cuz of the fuel price. Many people didn't want the regular Volga either for the same reason.

[@georgikolev8700]

No Moskivch or Zaporozhets?

[@boske_77]

What about Albania?

[@chrisbenson3374]

What about Uaz they made and still make cool vans

[@rdza-korozja_sp.z.o.o.]

Nie ukryjesz się. Z video czuć jak wylewa się z ciebie twoje Polaczkowstwo

[@KapiCool]

dosłownie ma na profilu lokalizację ustawioną na Polskę xd

[@rdza-korozja_sp.z.o.o.]

@@KapiCool Nawet nie musiałem tam wchodzić. Po jego angielskim już słychać polską pieśń.

[@Lucas_07-PL]

Lol co ?

[@the8thvictim]

Człowiek robi content po angielsku, co w tym złego?

[@Lucas_07-PL]

Jebany Fajnopolak się znalazł XD

[@fabreezethefaintinggoat5484]

cool dacia and tatra imo

[@ZenkiLights]

why does this guy sound like genesz that one guy who made the game the long drive

[@kucharz07]

Polonez mention what want's my ohv

[@perkisowy]

POLONEZ :OOOO

[@珍島のオミクロン]

Another car for tatra the T613: the T613 is used by communist political party, KGB or the Czechoslovakian StB (Státní Bezpečnosť), police, and many other. it is a large saloon luxury Rear-wheel drive vehicle with a Aircooled DOHC 3.5L V8 capable of producing about 168 PS with the fuel injection producing about 200 PS (190 km/h - 230 km/h), Not bad for a eastern european car. there are a lot of variant in the T613 with the example being: T613 T613-S T613-2 Changes in automotive parts T613-3 1st Facelift T613 RTP/RZP (Ambulance) T613-4 T613-5 T613-4 Mi and Mi Long I have fell in love with this car after playing an indie game named BEWARE because of it's menacing look and always catches up slowly to the player Škoda 120L while still not being able to get out from the woods leading to the Dam as if you're in a corridor with just you and the T613 slowly preying upon you.

[@pozddro1120]

you forget about some cars: ex DDR: Barkas, Robur, Jugoslavia: Yugo, Poland: Syrena ( syrena to nie samochód ), Nysa, Żuk, Tarpan...

[@yafavouriteguy]

Latvija, also one

[@pozddro1120]

@@yafavouriteguy oo, i didnt know... could u give me a name?

[@vukdoesnotexist]

the yugo was in the video

[@liviurosca]

Kurwa Barkas. 😂 My grandfather got one in early 2000, a pickup version. Spent like 3 summers to weld, paint, engine and gearbox swap from a Dacia 1300 (Renault 12) and spent another 2 years to make shifting lever to work. 😂 That gear lever has seen so many versions, adjustments, was a nightmare. 😂 After that him sold the thing, it was looking nice to be honest but finding gears was a nightmare. 😂

[@carkid266]

ah i wuld love some casual skoda forman tho :D

[@andreydarin3662]

WHERE IS ZAZ ?

[@kingsman-co]

you sound like that one the long drive guy

[@neandertalac]

Yugo is not Eastern, as Yugoslavia was Nonaligned. You can add Tata then.

[@TheLemminkainen]

Ukraine Zapparothes?

[@deez8202]

you could have atleast mentioned all the eastern block cars produced under the soviet era

[@YoutubeCommentatorzxcvbnm]

Masz polski akcent w angielskim 😂

[@GabrielTime]

bro if i havent got subtitles on i couldnt understand you. Have you got some depression lately or what?

[@olafkulczycki1998]

Tatra cars looks like batmobil.

[@iamboredascrap123]

you forgot Zastava from the balkans

[@net53.]

Lada gang here

[@DelmaTime]

POLONEZ💪💪💪