Trabant 601 Werbefilm 70er Jahre - Englisch

Hier mal ein Promotion-Filmchen für den angelsächsischen Markt aus dem Sachsenring-Werk in Zwickau.
Werbeslogan: "You can rely on this car: Trabant 601" :-))

[@MetalTrabant]

Still my favourite Trabant-related video ever! With the lively jazz-swing music and optimistic tone, it perfectly captivates the mood of the era it was made in... it shows everything that you could love this little car for! :)

[@senseofstile]

The car might not be top notch but, the musicians are outstanding?

[@tonykirchner5418]

I've been trying for years to find the music on here.

[@quas392]

@@tonykirchner5418 I have a feeling the music is by Gunther Horig and the Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker, same guys to do the soundtrack in the DEFA production video, though I'm not sure what the songs are themselves.

[@iana6713]

Unbelievable! I don't know where this was found, but great to see it here. Such a piece of history, and in English too. Thanks!

[@nlpnt]

It's interesting that the narrator speaks English with a noticeable German accent, leaves the factory name completely in German (not that they'd translate it fully, which would be something like "Saxon Ring Automobile Works Public Trust" but at least say "vee ee bee" instead of "fow eh bay") and calls the car "Trabant six hundred one" when "six oh one" would be how an English speaker would more likely read it.

[@DaveWatts_ejectamenta]

Yeah, like the Lufthansa man, "Zerz, s'no betta vay zu fly"

[@mauricevanmourik1982]

@@DaveWatts_ejectamenta An "extwa" (hycomat scene) , hilarious 😛

[@robfriedrich2822]

The East Germans couldn't travel. What they learned was in the best case from some British communists who lived in East Germany.

[@vitameat]

Elmer Fudd taught him English...

[@VolkerDau]

Toller Film, besonders die Motorsport-Szenen!

[@quas392]

The accent is gold VE MAKE THE GERMAN PRODUCKT TRABANT PLASTIC EAST GERMAN YOU CAN RELY ON. ROBUST, POAWERFÚL, LIEVLI STABEL KOANERING.

[@vitameat]

Or Elmer Fudd defected to the DDR and became a translator...

[@nlpnt]

@@vitameat Like all Toons, Elmer drove Chevys bought from Felix the Cat's dealership in LA...

[@MANSIKKAPUURO-jl9zm]

I WISHD ID HAD 3 601S 2 RED ONES AND 1 GREEN

[@elmoblatch7932]

haben den wirklich ein paar Engländer gekauft?

[@neilfoster814]

Yes! I have a 1988 Trabant P601 Kombi! In the UK now they are a cult car!

[@uzaiyaro]

How come this was even made in English? Did they sell them abroad and/or outside of the eastern bloc? I’m so curious

[@mannequinfukr]

If i remember right there was some western european countries that got them too

[@95thFoot]

They were using English to sell to Scandinavian countries, all of which use English (formerly German) as their second language.

[@uzaiyaro]

@@95thFoot oh, that's super interesting! Europe as a whole is not quite my strong suit, nor st most of the mainland care. It's small British cats from the 50s or bust, for me! Somewhat specific, I know! Thank you for teaching me something I didn't know! I guess my next question would be how many were sold? I heard that the Wartburg sold modestly better in the west, despite being even more impossible for any of the locals to ever obtain one unless your employer happened to be the Stasi. Thanks again, and cheers from Australia!

[@nlpnt]

@@95thFoot Makes sense, I've never seen one with Federalized lighting or with right-hand drive.

[@user-wh2sm6bt9q]

@@uzaiyaro I'm from Bulgaria. Here every ordinary citizen could buy a Wartburg. The problem is that you sign up and wait for it to be delivered. In the socialist countries with planned economies, there was a shortage of consumer goods.

[@robfriedrich2822]

I can rely on many things.... Compared with Zaporojes

[@supertrinigamer]

2:22

[@supertrinigamer]

5:44 trabant racing

[@chillenlikeavillain]

bmw 2002 @ 0:15 ?

[@D091281]

It was an international rallye.

[@-M-511]

@@D091281ja aber dann ist das kein film aus den 70ern

[@-M-511]

@Waldemar Batura 125p but than it is not a movie out of the 70s

[@daniel-ino]

wo hätte man das Gemisch herbekommen. Gabs glaub ich nicht bei uns an der Tankstelle

[@konradfalkner3198]

Kann man selber mischen 🙄😒

[@robfriedrich2822]

In der DDR gab es Säulen, an denen man Gemisch bekam und auch je nach Modell es einstellen konnte.

[@MANSIKKAPUURO-jl9zm]

PRIMA

[@mikeyu3159]

0:15 and 4:19 West German cars

[@pauul-lukaskipping1056]

In my opinion you can see an skoda 1000mb at 0:15 not a west German car

[@robfriedrich2822]

@@pauul-lukaskipping1056 But Skoda was more west, than an outdated car, produced with minor modification from the early 1960's till 1990.

[@jimpanse3166]

The Trabant 601 a piece of crap is gone.

[@uzaiyaro]

Yeah, but it's also a piece of history regardless of how good it isn't.