Trabant production in Zwickau DDR // German Factory

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[@miroslavmilivojevic5684]

Super za vw, ali ruska vozila su vise puta u istoriji dolazila do Berlina a nemacka ni jednom do Moskve. Cija je tehnika bolja?

[@tarikaymelek]

A classic that has grown in popularity over the years. As an automotive engineer, I find Trabant successful, especially the duroplast body panels produced due to the limited metal for the body, a marvel of engineering. Emissions data are lower than many older diesel engines. It is definitely a world heritage, with love to those who keep it alive.

[@edwardhayden4626]

I now know why East Germans waited years to buy a Trabant; they were hand built just like a Rolls Royce.

[@Хрень-Пень]

Просто больше нечего было купить.У меня было 2 Трабанта.

[@nlpnt]

These are Trabant 1.1s on the line. 1990 or '91 models. They went straight to the Sales Bank and the cars waited for customers, not the other way around.

[@Romek830]

🤣JA !!!!!!

[@ZAFARADIL-cd6xh]

❤❤❤❤ I feel so proud,when i saw just "natural" working environment! ! !no "superficial" safety gears and practices ! ! !just wake up and go to your "dream" job ! ! !note: this comment is for every country,no matter what he was Socialist or dirty Capitalist,back then before 1980's ! ! !

[@ilya0073]

The car is hopelessly outdated. But the Germans, with their meticulousness and attention to detail, do it perfectly!

[@sullybiker6520]

It's a car that's definitely been rehabilitated in modern times; it was the right vehicle at the right time for the GDR, and at the time of its design, very modern. It reminds me a lot of an early mini, or pretty much any product out of Leyland in the 70s. Clearly the factory (there's some footage of the 1.1 Kombi here so it must be after reunification) had some contemporary practices, but the regime was not concerned with labour saving and therefore some of the less efficient practices persisted, like the amount of fitting (those panel guys are basically coach-work specialists) and the high number of welds compared to Western practice at that time.

[@valencianiste6451]

Going to buy one the next month. Seeing this going into my uni, thats a hell of fun.

[@CaesarAveCaesar]

Ein Auto das ohne Stress gebaut wurde 👏👏👏heute unvorstellbar 😃

[@ralle3329]

vor allem der Arbeiter, der ohne Lackiermaske mit der Spritzpistole lackiert hat. Arbeitsschutz Fehlanzeige.

[@boehserwolf150]

"The robots where probably a gift from VW before the fall of the wall..." to quote a former boss of mine 25 years ago.

[@sfenodonte]

Ich denke, es war ein ausgezeichnetes, sparsames Auto, um ein Land zu bereisen. Seine Dauer von 34 Jahren ist absurd, die Wartezeiten von 18-19 Jahren, das stellt eine Unbeweglichkeit des DDR-Regimes, der von Moskau beschlossenen 5-Jahres-Pläne dar. Eine Logik bestand darin, zumindest weitere Fabriken an anderen Standorten zu bauen, vielleicht auf der Grundlage des 2-Takt-3-Zylinder-Motors WARTBURG, einem AUTO DER ERSTKLASSIGKEIT für einige wenige, mit Ausnahme der politischen Parteiführer mit TATRA, einem 6-Zylinder-1800-cm³-,2-mal, erhalten von 2-3,Motor Design moderner. Aber seit 1962 gab es die Mauer und daher bestand kein Bedarf mehr an Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ... I think it was an excellent economical car for motoring a country. Its duration of 34 years is absurd, the waiting times of 18-19 years, this represents an immobility of the GDR regime, of the 5-year plans decided by Moscow. One logic was to build at least other factories, in other locations, perhaps based on the 2-stroke 3-cylinder engine, WARTBURG, UPPER CLASS CAR for a few, excluding the political party leaders with TATRA, a 6-cylinder 1800 cc with a design more modern. But since 1962 there was the wall and therefore there was no longer any need for competitiveness... Dann sind wir ehrlich, selbst die Deutschen des Ostens, die es nicht besser machen konnten, waren dazu bestimmt, zu scheitern .......

[@slawekpd2566]

Sicherheit und Arbeitskleidung wurde damals Großgeschrieben... :)

[@haraldschmidt8828]

Korrekte Orthografie offenbar aber nicht.

[@hinREISEND_Ausflugstipps]

Danke für den spannenden Einblick! 😍 Wir haben vor kurzem auf der Rennstrecke in Oschersleben einen Trabi 601 und eine Corvette C8 gegeneinander antreten lassen. Das war sooo spannend! 🤯🎉

[@herberthornig2774]

Wer hat gewonnen?

[@Pintkonan]

@@herberthornig2774 kann man noch nicht sagen, der trabbi ist noch nicht im ziel.

[@shazam6274]

Fascinating! So many interesting details in this video. The beginning is the making of plant fiber and sap into sheets which would form the outer body of the car. "Plant fiber and tree sap?" Yes, basically cardboard. Later in the video a very thin, clear, protective shiny layer is sprayed over the paint. This is not only to make it look shiny, but to keep water from degrading and dissolving the carboard which was called "duroplast". The thin stamped metal inner body structure was riveted and screwed together and then the outer body fitted over it with a few bolts and nuts. Toward the end, workers eventually had production clothing and some electric and pneumatic hand tools, instead of the normal clothes and manual screwdrivers in the beginning. Also notice that at almost every assembly process, adjustment and alignment was done with a hammer. The "door gaps" were milled with a router to fit the individual car! The best way to describe the Trabant is that it is a 4 door cardboard car with a sheet metal chassis and a 1 liter air-cooled 2 cycle oil burning engine based on a motorcycle design. Another way would be: "the cheapest car, which could be made no cheaper and still function". To their credit, when you have nothing, you do with whatever you have. Unfortunately, while many improvements could be had over time, nothing was changed. To the question: "Why did people buy this poor excuse of a car?" The answer is that there were no other choices, other than walking, thanks to the central planning of the ideological government.

[@seandoole6504]

The amount of misinformation in your statement is staggering.

[@shazam6274]

@@seandoole6504 Please point them out in detail. Add the video time marks where they concur.

[@seandoole6504]

Your statement, not the video. The video is fine; Your facts in the pinned comment though... Tree sap? You mean phenol resin. Cotton, not paper fibre. Water does not degrade duroplast, coating or no, as it is not cardboard. Inner body structure is fully welded, the only rivets & screws used in body construction hold the duroplast on, with the aid of butyl rubber and a synthetic adhesive. Engines here are 4 stroke, but you have the displacement correct. Mechanical improvements were made to the cars over the years, they did not stay the same, which is why 50:1 engines, dual-circuit brakes, structural changes, coil spring suspension, and ultimately a VW engine were added. Moskvitch, Lada, Polski Fiat, Wartburg, and Skoda were available to those that had the money, but these cost more than triple in many cases compared to the Trabant, so they bought what they could afford, same as the West. The assemblers did what BMC, GM, and Chrysler did for the panel fitment with regards to that hammer. Poke fun at facts, not myths. It won't make your view count higher, but it will look like you did your homework instead of cribbing from the lowest score in the class. @@shazam6274

[@richyzig]

@@seandoole6504 It's perfectly legitimate to poke fun at this embarrassing car! The vast majority of cars in the "GDR" were Trabants and most could not even afford it. Those that could, had to wait 10 years to get one. Trabant crap is communism on wheels.

[@satishtummala5084]

good for you for correcting the facts.....but the car, and it's collaborator, the GDR, were both still pieces of shit@@seandoole6504

[@valentinova1402]

Perfekt

[@fabricemaurin8065]

Perfekt schweinerei

[@michaelseidel2285]

Bei der Motormontage sehe ich einen typischen Zweizylinder Zweittaktmotor, luftgekühlt, im Aluminiumgehäuse. Beim Einbau im Fahrzeug wird aber ein Vierzylinder Viertaktmotor im Graugußgehäuse, wassergekühlt, mit obenliegender Nockenwelle verbaut. Wie geht das zusammen?

[@thardyryll]

The last Trabant, produced only briefly in 1990-1991, had an engine like you describe. It was, as we say, too little, two late.

[@michaelseidel2285]

@@thardyryll The last Trabant 1,1 SOP, Start of Production with engine developt from VW was in 1988. The Price was very expensive. 20.000 Eastmark.

[@piotrmarcin5123]

Miałem Trabiego. I had a Trabie. :)

[@jorgtungler7348]

Bin von der DDR East Germany

[@1970valtari]

Pozdrav iz Jugoslavije :)

[@TheMidasMD]

I am confused! At 25:30, you mean they even used robotic welders and painters then just to produce Trabants?? Are you serious??

[@MS_Fighter]

Well, from time to time robots were also used

[@iainmclaughlan1557]

Beautiful cars

[@kpii10skykmr]

Excellent 👍... Au moins ça rouillé moins que les simca ou les R5...😂

[@ricksnoddy1701]

Truly one of the most depressing videos I’ve ever watched. It says everything one needs to know about the DDR and why it vanished off the face of the earth. What a total POS.

[@TransAmDrifter]

I've been in Zwickau for a month. Very depressing town. So grey, full of concrete and people with numb faces.

[@terenceskill9526]

I´ve been to Zwickau last summer and got the complete opposite impression...not so much going on there, indeed, but still they have a nicely-rebuilt city center (with some empty windows here and there, I have to admit), parks & recreation absolutelly on-par for the size of the city and busloads of friendly people everywhere. It´s a small town struggling with underemployment, just like Zeitz (which I can also recommend you to visit) and many others...but I really caught a vibe that they´re making the best out of the situation. May I assume that you´ve, at least, paid a visit to the August Horch Museum?

[@TransAmDrifter]

@@terenceskill9526 no, I was working there for a few months. Visited the market square when there was something colorful going on. People are indeed friendly, but there's too much concrete everywhere.

[@MichaelElias-q2z]

What's the problem? A special advanced nation like Germany can't bring Zwickau into the modern era.

[@SuperHammaren]

No big industry left? Fel sad for them. They did do a 4 stroke version at the end. In Swerin I saw a batmobil trabi. It was soo cool!!

[@johnwalsh7256]

The opposite of a Toyota factory 😅😂

[@ابوسارةابوسارة-ز6د]

كانت سيارة فى هذة الايام سيارة سعرها على حد ايد الفقراء وليس الاثرياء فاذن بنسبة لنا ولهم سيارة جميلة وعملية افضل من متوسيكل فى البرودة والثلوح

[@ОлегВасильев-у2й]

Отличные автомобили были в те времена,а в китае в те времена ещё на рикши передвигались и с копём охотились,в СССР жигули собирали.Прекрасное было время.

[@sullybiker6520]

I noticed in the fabric processing areas (in other videos too) this yellow dust is everywhere. Is that the resin in powdered form?

[@АндрейИванов-б4о6т]

Yes😊

[@michaelseidel2285]

Minderwertige Baumwolleabfälle und Kleber, könnte Epoxidharz sein, wurden gemischt, daraus entstand Duroplast als Beplankung. Vorteil :Billig, Nachteil :Fertigung der Teile, pressen, erhitzen, abkühlen dauert ewig lang. Passt, aber bei einem Aufprall fliegt alles auseinander. Da ist Blech was sich verformt besser.

[@ilya0073]

33:38 - Is the engine from a motorcycle or something??

[@AndrewLambert-wi8et]

CUBA SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE PRODUCTION LINE AND CONTINUED TO PRODUCE IT IN CUBA.

[@trabiman26]

26.00 today 90% new cars don't have that good underseal only primer and after 5 years rust everywhere. I have trabant from 1988 and underneath looks like 10 years old modern car.😎

[@schindelschwingerflohheim4945]

Da war die Fertigung des Modell T von Henry Ford moderner.

[@АндрейИванов-б4о6т]

Not

[@ronnyschmidt5924]

Naja der hatte auch mehr zugriff auf Rohstoffe, zb. Stahl. Das war in der DDR GDR etwas schwiriger!

[@januszkszczotek8587]

Ach, hatte Henry Ford schon Kuka-Roboter in Westdeutschland gekauft ;-)

[@franceskeith4934]

great cars would be very popular if sold new in usa today

[@MichaelElias-q2z]

Question: why are the East Germans rust-proofing cars made of plastic and wool?

[@AndreasHertel-g5n]

Mixchael Elias aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen. Not macht erfinderisch!

[@VADOC02]

A little confused The video is assembly is of the 1.1 But engine assembly is 2-stroke engines?

[@KrischanH.]

Die eigentliche Produktion zeigt den 1.1 Trabant mit dem VW EA111 Motor. Der kahm als 1.3 im Wartburg und Barkas zum Einsatz. Die Produktion des Zweitakt-Motors stammt entweder aus einer anderen, früheren Dokumentation oder ist späte Ersatzteilfertigung.

[@alexandrugurgu7126]

O anumită vedetă in devenire ar spune:"Să ne întoarcem la Trabant! Va fi un progres!". Dacă va încerca să vadă lumea din unghiul meu va ajunge cea mai MARE jurnalistă din România! Eu atât am avut de spus! 😮

[@strawloki7133]

coae ce-ai fumat😂😂

[@170Hendrik]

Uit welk jaar komen deze beelden?

[@Pianoman-cb6yz]

Duroplast. The car is a legend.

[@kadersadaoui4581]

DDR. 👍🥰💐

[@hansmuller3683]

DDR💩💩💩💩🖕

[@mauriciogoncalves1717]

Esse modelo é até bonitinho. Nos dias de hoje pegar um desses e adptar um motor mais atual ficaria bacana. O motor de 2 tempos com aquela fumaceira realmente não dá.

[@yogeshkumar7402]

Car body old &new are good,but today,we need new engine &gear box

[@dtzlevelei6059]

In this video, the factory looks much better 25 years earlier. The same machines were then new, and the workers looked out as workers, in working clothes, and not as punks in jeans and shirts in 1990. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGSbY6aPepajn6c

[@MichaelElias-q2z]

The DDR kept it old school, even the assembly line machines are from the reich era.

[@kadersadaoui4581]

DDR. 👍

[@ИпполитМакаров-б7х]

У камрадов вместо шуруповёрта отвёртка типа юла!!

[@Claude_van]

This factory looked like the 50s in the 80s. Dirty, dark, no investments for decades. Communism just sucks.😢

[@thomashorch97]

Wahnsinn dass die mit der Schrottbude fast so etwas wie ein Auto gebaut haben.

[@slavakaminskiy7578]

С какой аккуратностью его делали. И что на БМВ ездить, счастья прибавилось?

[@hansmuller3683]

Да прибавилось. Совкодрочер ты наш обос@санный

[@secarianu]

So, that was an eco friendly car in the manufacturing process, by todays hype, let's say?

[@luisgarza2036]

It was made with the minimal resources available and mostly recycled materials and really old outdated machines to manufacture parts, it was that or nothing. They really made something out of nothing and they are few of those running today. Minimalistic car like citroen 2 cv but with way less resources.

[@АндрейИванов-б4о6т]

DDR forever the best 🚩👍

[@satishtummala5084]

🤮

[@ralle3329]

Schnaps gabs im Konsum immer

[@alessandro8154]

👍👍👍

[@slavakaminskiy7578]

Эта машина опередила время! Японцы запатентовали новый двухтактный двигатель, они недорогие в производстве и мощнее. Время покажет.

[@maffinb]

Die Erklärungen zu den einzelnen Arbeitsschritten, der Fertigung und der Materialherstellung, wären bestimmt für viele Zuschauer interessant gewesen. Im originalen Video sind diese vorhanden.

[@pommesmayo7336]

pappe falten, pritstift ansetzen, fertig. da brauch niemand was erklären

[@Pintkonan]

@@pommesmayo7336 was für ein dummes gelaber, du bist der erste, der erklärungen benötigt.

[@antyrydzokaczka240]

Szpara między błotnikiem i drzwiami nie pasuje,Edek,dawaj diaxa😂

[@MichaelElias-q2z]

I saw some asian faces, didn't the DDR import the Vietnamese to help with East Germany's chronic labour shortage.

[@skipper967]

601 und 1.1 irgendwie vermischt. Trotzdem tolles Video 👍

[@newtonwhatevs]

No respirators, no gloves, no goggles...

[@fabricemaurin8065]

And no respect for the workers : true communism

[@mikeraphone6745]

Straight from the factory and straight to the scrapyard when the wall came down. You could buy a brand new BMW for less than the price of these .

[@maffinb]

Einen brandneuen BMW für 12.000 DM gab es damals auch schon nicht😉

[@reginaldomiltom1004]

Só a música que ficou ruim, estes vídeos tem que ser som original.

[@aluheinzel]

wie im Mittelalter

[@wernerlampe8089]

Min. 29.15 … Spraying without a Mask! … Incredible! … 😮

[@fabricemaurin8065]

Communist systèm !

[@christiansachse6566]

Einfach nur Genial...

[@alexslf3132]

Trabant 1.1 Kombi schon mit VW Motor. Ansonsten halt zu dem Zeitpunkt alles runter geritten. Arbeitsschutz war überall Nebensache.

[@johnfalkenstine8377]

Dont fool yourself with nostalgia. It was a lousy outdated car.

[@MarcusRedfield-b1w]

It was a great car 😮 if your engine failed you could use your lawn mower engine 😂😂

[@simeonsimeonov1751]

@@MarcusRedfield-b1wEngines on this never fail! It was a twin cylinder two stroke turbine air cooled 610cc producing 28 hp. It is definitely a polluting type of car compared to the current standards but extremely reliable and strong.

[@balazs8330]

True. Maybe it was ok until the first half of the 70s. But later it was just crap🤮

[@MichaelElias-q2z]

Heinz Nordorf, the brilliant CEO of WW group, once described the bettle as having more faults than a dog has fleas. But VW continuously improved the car year after year, the DDR did not do that with the Trabant. The last Trabants off the assembly line were essentially the same as the early Trabants. As automobile technology improved, the Trabants' poor engineering was magnified.

[@northerner4913]

но сначала-то? Была хорошей, но ее не улучшали Отдай дань уважения хотя бы той что была

[@quattro4s]

Thankfully to Internet and KZbin to remind us how bad this car was

[@jean-pierresurleraux3060]

Des images qui expliquent un modèle économiquement non viable, avec une technologie de fabrication dépassée pour l'époque, un produit démodé et fourni en quantités symboliques. Outillage démodé, conditions de travail dignes de l'artisanat et non de l'industrie. L'aveuglement des dirigeants communistes de l'époque reste sidérant malgré les plus de 30 ans qui nous séparent de la réunification des 2 moitiés de l'Allemagne. On ne parlait visiblement pas à l'époque en RDA d'économie, mais bien d'occupation des travailleurs. Ce serait presque amusant si on ignorait toutes les conséquences de ce passage historique sur des millions de personnes.

[@MarcusRedfield-b1w]

i had a skateboard will better handling 😂

[@einarsdandens8961]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@Romek830]

Der Müll wurde gekauf !!!!! 🤣

[@fernandojosegarbarino129]

Que horrible vehiculo. Se perdia muchisimo tiempo en la carroceria. En ajustar las partes plasticas y despues en pintura. Un pesimo auto. Tanto la carroceria como el motor. Hicieron un favor en dejarlo de producir.

[@tarikaymelek]

Production was slow but they still produced about 3 million. Today, the number of Trabant on the road is increasing. Neutral writers argue that he was successful. As an engineer, I defend this. A car produced with limited resources and incredible solutions.

[@fernandojosegarbarino129]

@@tarikaymelek ..no hay excusa. Solo querian demostrar que podian hacer un auto en la alemania comunista. Hubiese sido mejor hacer un convenio de produccion con Lada y asi fabricaban en la rda el modelo de 4 puertas.

[@piero3637]

Peggiore machine nel mondo. Tutte! Una peggio del altra. Neanche farlo apposta DDR era veramente anti talento per macchine di ogni genere. Sembrava che giocavano bambini a disegnarli.

[@maffinb]

Haben Sie dieses Auto besessen und gefahren oder beurteilen Sie es nur vom Video her? Sie haben leider keine Ahnung von den Talenten und Ingenieuren der DDR und von der DDR. Schade.

[@sfenodonte]

Um einer armen Bevölkerung ein Auto zu geben, war es ein ausgezeichnetes Auto. Warum nicht auf dem neuesten Stand bleiben oder eine zweite Fabrik in Berlin bauen? Statt 19 Jahren wären es 9 Jahre Warten gewesen.@@maffinb

[@koorosh.p]

​@@maffinbآلمان شرقی عالی بود

[@tarikaymelek]

​@@maffinbNever mind mate, some just want to criticize Trabant was really successful. Those who copy and paste articles from racist sites on the Internet cannot know this.

[@ОлегСачков-я7л]

Хорошие дешовые авто для своего времени.

[@christianvalenzuela225]

Boring video, boring music.....

[@1970valtari]

Die Deutsche Quallitat :)