10 Communist Cars Western People May Not Know About

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[@VisioRacer]

I like the Volga, it has such a beefy sound. Thanks for watching, wish you a great day!

[@xabierbilbao3974]

you re awesome thank you

[@stephen9869]

Which country are you from??

[@VisioRacer]

I come from Slovakia, Stephen

[@KH-pt4un]

That Volga sounds much more better than those 60s-70s American V8s, by the way nice vid mate!

[@Maxx2k8]

The engine design was based on a Ford Y-block though.

[@StrangeQuark]

not only can the 126 carry 4 people, but 4 people can carry the 126

[@joeaccordion]

LOL LOL

[@topdrives538]

So true

[@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757]

But can 4 people carry the 126 with 4 people in it?

[@tripwire4727]

Who, I wonder has a wrench?

[@juippi420]

funny story, at the time of when i am typing this you can see the fiat 850 in my profile picture, when my mom got her license and started driving the car to school in the late 80s a group of boys lifted the car up in the air, rotated it and almost landed my mom a parking ticket. and then theres the story of my dad's gym teacher, he and his friends lifted his datsun 100a on top of a huge snow pile and the gym teacher couldnt drive the car before early summer.

[@michaelkelm3579]

If only the Skoda 1000 MB had 24MB more, then it'd be a Skoda 1GB

[@computernerdinside]

Glad I'm not the only one who's mind went there XD

[@illdeletethismusic]

the consensus of programmers and manufacturers was for using binary as the basis of the units, until a pretending to be nongovernmental organization decided to rename the consensus units, and make the units with the previously agreed on name smaller, and get this passed as a government imposed standard internationally so, 1024 is the correct definition, unless you are a bureaucrat

[@michaelkelm3579]

I'd always thought that the computer determines each unit (B, KB, Etc.) in multiples 1024 whereas marketing defines it as 1000, which is why the computer always displays less disk space than what's written on the box

[@NLS87]

Only windows uses 1024MB = 1GB, the normal is 1000MB = 1GB, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android uses that, Windows is the minority compared to those OS.

[@michaelkelm3579]

I didn't know that. I use both Windows and Mac, and I've never thought to check the capacity of anything in both. That's interesting.

[@veli-pekkakultanen2353]

As Lada Club member of Finland, I know, Lada will never stop running.

[@fee9687]

“Other honorable mentions include the following 37 Škoda’s and a single Dacia.

[@szymon940]

@Romanian presenter What's that got to do with communist time Dacia?

[@janbojarski004425]

That Bakelite Motor Wagen made me laugh so hard XD. In Poland we used to call them Ford Karton

[@szlatyka]

Hungary: Paper Jaguar.

[@konyina]

Jan Bojarski Serbia- Pig Food

[@WolfRock89]

Polski Fiat in Hungary: Mouse Camion

[@iordachenicolaev]

The Oltcit did not rust easily, My dad's Oltcit rusted after 20 years, 5 of which it sat outside and was no longer driven. And the engine was one of the most reliable among all the cars in the video. It's only reliability problem was with the mechanism that controlled the spark plugs. They addressed that with an electronic controller. It was as simple and as functional as they could make it. It was an air cooled boxer4 with a surprisingly nice sound and a redline at 8000 rpm and could go to 10.000 RPM. The engine used a 2 step carburetor. It had no servo and the disk type brakes and steering never failed. It was a 2 door and the rigid structure of it made it one of the safest cars under the iron curtain. The rigid body also made it a lot more nimble that any commie car. The controls on it were up to par with west European cars of the 80-es. The car could hit 150km/h and that was amazing for any of the cars in this video. Fuel consumption was directly tied to the way it was driven. Eco driving made it use about 6-7l /100 km outside of towns and 10-11 in town. Aggressive driving made it use over 13-15 l/100 km.

[@legeekdechepaou411]

So your dad's oltcit has been blessed by a volvo ?

[@LocalAutist]

Fuel consumption is obviously tied to how you drive it, have you never owned a car? 😂

[@MTNDEWGANG]

Imagine a v8 volga running down the street, chasing down a 26hp trabant. lol

[@williambeglen4771]

There is a volga v8 swap American 5.2 on youtube.

[@daledavies2334]

Lada also copied/reverse engineered the rotary engine. There was 2 and 3 rotor models mainly for KGB use. Only problem was they did their usual and cut corners to save money, so they were not as reliable as the Mazda engines. Also they had a smaller single or 2 venturi carburretor.

[@bslay4r]

Nice list. Here in Hungary in the 80's Lada, Trabant, Wartburg, Polski and Dacia were the most common. In our eyes the Skoda was already a "western" car, not many of that were running here. You left out the Zaporozhets, the Moskvich and the Zastava.

[@melonkat4703]

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[@PomaranczowyKroI]

Maluch used to be the most popular family car in Poland (5ppl + luggage and we're going on vacation cross the country) Now prices of Polski Fiat are incredibly high. Great vid!

[@mokrebuty]

Poldek driver...

[@davidtoth8975]

Is it high everywhere? Was thinking of getting one. Love the look of it.

[@PomaranczowyKroI]

depends, good one in great shape will be expensive (13k PLN +, 3k euro +) but it;s possible to find a cheaper one. PM me if u want some more info, i can help

[@GrimFaceHunter]

It's popularly called "Peglica" in ex-Yugoslavia. It means little clothes iron.

[@Shelby-fq3eh]

I remember when you will able to buy a Fiat 126p for about 100zł, which about 25 euro. This car is a crap, but i guess it was worth couple of dollars. Definetely not worth 3k euro.

[@Punisher9419]

I think this is one of your most interesting video's. I remember a Skoda joke where they put the engine in the rear because when it broke down and you had to push it the engines heat would warm your hands up.

[@jezztech]

Your talking complete bollox, the only reliability issues were VERY occasionally overheating, the Skoda models of this era were of a genuine Czech design and highly contemporary, Skoda, s of this era never had any serious reliability problems, which if you had one you would know.

[@shaneheffernan1293]

Kuddlesworth NA your thinking of the yugo

[@szekelygergely711]

Actually overheating was a common issue, everyone new that skodas are boiling the coolant. However, this was not an inherent flaw: the real cause was the poor maintenance, for the long pipelines and some other factors, the cooling of rear engined skodas is very sensitive, and most owner just never changed coolant fluids, or simply mixed tap water. While other commie cars tolerated such negligence quite well the skoda did not, as the formation of lime and rusty gunk in the radiators and pipes hindered cooling performabce noticably. However, with proper maintenece this is never an issue: the system is actually absolutely not underengeneered: Rapids, Gardes, and even LR replicas tuned well over 100bhp, paricipating in historc rally events are usually running with their stock radiators, without any problem...

[@jezztech]

What your actually saying is that without regular maintenance the skodas would overheat?, my S110r coupe overheated once! rear mounted radiator belt driven fan, My 120L overheated once! front mounted radiator electric fan, tubes going underneath to rear, I had my vehicles serviced regularly, when the 120 overheated it was in winter time and my garage advised me to let the car warm up completly before driving off because the coolant in the front radiator could still be cold whilst that surrounding the engine could be warm forming a thermo bloc, might have been "BS" but took this advice and it never happened again, the S110r just simply overheated after having driven about 2 hundred miles then becoming stuck in a traffic jam, stop- start etc, and couldnt get the temperature down, I dont call these serious issues, rather unfortunate incidents with mitigating circumstances

[@datadaedalus2216]

I had 4 rear engined Skoda's in my youth; 2 x 1984 Estelles and 2 x 1988 Rapid Coupes. Let's be clear, this design did NOT have an overheating problem. This would only occur if the cooling system developed a leak and air bubbles were in the cooling pipes. Replacing leaking hoses or otherwise sealing any water leaks and successfully refilling the system with coolant usually cured the problem. The design was prone to water leaks as it got older, but this could usually be prevented by replacing all the original solutions used for tightening the hoses. I'm happy to say this worked a treat, and made most of my Skodas immune to water leaks. This was a car whose water tank you checked everyday - just in case. And yes, I often carried 2 x 2 litre bottles of water on both sides of the engine compartment - just in case :-)

[@MrMoskvichok]

Where is Moskvich? :))

[@vladimertsuladze7635]

Moskvich is stronger than the smaller car Zaz

[@vinogradsky]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWOQmJmwdp5kqK8 VAZ 2108

[@user-lg8rp4fq9f]

Cosmich!

[@vladimertsuladze7635]

AG exe en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAZ_Zaporozhets

[@juippi420]

moskvitch 411, elite and 412 were legends

[@TheZemun]

And where is ZAPOROZHAC ?

[@alanmalan3819]

It created in Ukraine by groop of ukrainian students

[@Mr.CredOo]

@@alanmalan3819 No USSR

[@racingenraged8019]

@@Mr.CredOo Ukraine was in USSR dumbass.

[@Frittrich]

Dude what about Lada Niva. It is still a very popular car today. I drive one and I know at least two other people driving one here in south Germany

[@VisioRacer]

Another day in another video :)

[@mihkus]

Part 2 would be nice.

[@DeeZeeGR]

Knospe Yeahhh dude still here some ppl use them for the mountains and for other offroad activities

[@finntastique3891]

Yeah, it is a really reliable no-nonsense off-road vehicle. I've seen numerous Lada Nivas in Switzerland of all places! There they have enough money to buy whatever car they want to.

[@eliaskasdorf3485]

bei mir im Dorf fahren 3 Stück rum. sind hier auch gar nicht allzu selten haha

[@ramimsd]

We used to have the Volga as Taxis in Iraq, and they used to have the V6 engine, were highly sought in urban areas as their suspension was considered to be tough and durable on gravel.

[@koyotekola6916]

Rami-Al-Mudafar Could they handle running over IEDs? Now that's rugged.

[@paveantelic7876]

@@koyotekola6916 better question, can IEDs handle volgas?!

[@smitbar11]

My grandfather had a 'Moskovitch' in the 1960's/70's, it was a rare car here in the UK, as were most Soviet made goods, he had a Cistrad Soviet radio too. We could buy Zenit camera's and they were pretty good, reliable and cheap 35mm film cameras, and Soviet USSR made

[@0866aikon]

8:00 i laughed so hard to that hybrid guys face :DD

[@Cypress_green]

"You wstern people may not be familliar with these cars, so let me show you what models were popular on our streets"-then shows a BRZ drifting hahahaha

[@VisioRacer]

The BRZ is from the east too!

[@Cypress_green]

VisioRacer Yes it is xD

[@bignobit905]

no its GT86 ... wait... its FRs

[@breebw]

Yeah, I was thinking, shit, they were really ahead of their time. They had this, while our family had the Hillman Hunter.

[@sonyviva308]

The Western from the far East. :)

[@wetbaloney]

What about the Chaika: it looked exactly like a 1956 Packard.

[@GhostOfDamned]

O I forgot about that

[@wetbaloney]

@@GhostOfDamned It's what all the top level party hacks drove (or more often were driven in). I saw a real nice one in a Moscow parking lot.

[@flugjung]

Excellent video! No cheesy music, just cars and their sounds! I like your English too! I know it is a personal video but i missed the Dacia 1300 (it was more iconic and known than the Oltcit/Oltena) and the Moskvitch 412. Keep on making more of these videos. Greetings from Mexico

[@thepumpkingking8339]

Back in the mid 1990's one of my friends Dad had an old LADA-1200 in a lime green colour, he paid £50. for it as the old guy who had it from new had died . We always took the PISS. With it being a Lada and all the rest. But also because it had a starting handle hole in the bumper. But 95/96 was a COLD winter in South West Scotland ( By Our Standard's ). A time when a lot of modern cars of the time would not even start let alone be able to drive, in the frozen snow. He got his own back as he drove past us all with frozen not starting modern car's.. I must ask him next time I see him. What happened to the LADA 1200.

[@thepumpkingking8339]

Lada

[@maxmustermann-ie6ic]

The Pumpking King Its russian, of course it tolerates cold :-)

[@yrasphong]

Geo Stana lol

[@mlynto]

Where is Zaporozac and Moskvitch? I grew up in ex-YU and Skoda was the most reliable car, Zaporozac was the cheapest, it was ugly but one needed only 6 month salary to buy one. Polish Polonez was good too. Domesticaly made Zastava was piece of crap. We had lots of overpriced British, French and German imports as well. The worst in terms of reliability was British made Austin, then German NSU Prinz breaks down after a year of driving, and French cars were comfy but you don't want to drive it too far. Anyway, the narrative is that eastern cars are bad but Skoda is way better than majority of western cars. Russian Lada was just as good as Skoda but for some reason more expensive.

[@DecaturCentaur]

Don't understand why British cars get a bad rap, it hasn't been my experience.....I've owned a 1974 Triumph TR6 since 1983 and a 1989 Jaguar XJS since new. The TR6 had a new starter in 1986 and new tires in 1999. The V~12 Jaguar now has over 200,000 miles on it and runs and looks great....only real problem has been the GM supplied air~ conditioning, the passenger side electric window stopped working for a few weeks in the early '90's, but fixed itself and has worked fine ever since. I have regretted only one car, a Porsche 911S, sold it at 36,000 miles, truly a horrible automobile, it ran for only 2 months out of a year, and cost a fortune to keep up(plus it was to complicated to work on it yourself). BTW: love the Soviet and E. European cars, being from the S.E. U.S.A., I have never seen one in person.

[@jamesbensch6]

DecaturCentaur they used to be common here in Canada. We had Ladas, Skodas, and of course Yugos. Lada was the fastest growing automotive brand in Canada during the 80s but by 97 the left our market. You still see the odd one but most have been scrapped

[@TheWolvesCurse]

Fićo is life!

[@Ralf5595]

zaporozac and moskvic is a skoda

[@NYC911]

mlynto no the Zastava was not crap at all! Actually in its era it was almost like a western car, way above the average eastern car standard!

[@Duececoupe]

Has to be one of my favourite videos, of those that you've made so far, together with the one about Utility Vehicles....one of my best pals back in my old country of Sweden, used to own a Vaz estate and a Lada 4x4.....

[@drinkpimptea]

I’m from USSR, a part of which now bacame Kazakhstan. We had a chery VAZ 2106 and beige VAZ 21063 Zhigulis, which will always be in heart, as part of childhood. VisioRacer, you rock. Not many people along exUSSR who are not as into cars as you (and me) are, would know many of these cars from other Eastern Block countries! Thanks a lot

[@davidpetrovski6503]

my dad had a green lada 2104 wagon with a v8 289 swap that we did together

[@RGV2300]

SLRR Builds god... that's my dream, since i saw that video of a lada with a rb26dett inside.

[@ruscool7]

If your not lying could you please show me this beast!! :D Big Lada Fan!!

[@mihalydenes2716]

I have a Lada 2106 with 1.6 engine. I want a V8 swap but the car worth so much with the stock engine that I can't allow myself to do the swap.

[@jakubbielu4850]

I'm glad that you mentioned maluch and syrena on this list. My family had a few maluch's and my grandfather had a skoda 100 :)

[@jakubbielu4850]

thanks fo the heart :) and I forget to say that maluch's are quite popular in my area even nowadays

[@menju32]

That sound of the GAZ 24 Volga....awesome.

[@Yoni-G]

Great work, showing those who never visited behind the Iron Curtain, the motor scene there. Some of the models were sold in England in the 1970s as "low cost" alternatives to the West European models. Among these, the Warburg, the rear-engined Skodas, and one you did not mention, the 4-door saloon and station wagon Moskvich. In Israel, many Russian immigrants in the early 90s brought the Fiat 124 style Lada with them.

[@Petidani0330]

Before the start of the first Hungarian Grand Prix in 1986, which has been written to the F1 history as the first Grand Prix on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the legendary Ayrton Senna had an interesting task for the organisers: he wanted to drive around the circuit with a car, that an average Hungarian citizen had in that time. So they gave him a Lada, and he pushed the hell out of it for that one lap. :D

[@timbecile7006]

Haha I'd like to see the second car, the Skoda, or the Trabant do that!

[@TheRichardSpearman]

Rear engine cars, eg Skoda (and also Renault, Tatra, etc) have always had a bad press, mainly for poor handling. Yet F1 cars are all all rear engine, rear wheel drive,.

[@morrismckinnon6047]

You forgot the Moskvitch 412 and the ZAZ 968 Zaporozhet. The Moskvitch sold very well here in the UK and saw successful rallying in the 1970's. The Zaporozhet was probably the most unreliable car ever made due it's engine being fitted with timing gears made from fiber! It was to reduce engine noise but being made of fiber the gears would shed teeth from being softened from leaking oil rendering the car completely un-drivable. The British Ford V4 engine had a fiber timing gear which too made it an unreliable engine.

[@nikadim3972]

Morris McKinnon some Zaporozhets still in use by some hipsrers in Ukraine. it's air-cooled V4 is undestructable pice of crap :) it's never works good, but it always works.

[@one_step_sideways]

They say that if you want to drive to your friend's house, buy a new Zaporozhets and it would be a one-way ticket.

[@ahuman9143]

Morris McKinnon my grandfather owns a 968 zaporozhet from 1994

[@Petroilhead]

you should speak correctly: Zapor

[@Petroilhead]

zapor means disease when you cant shit, but trying

[@lexus8018]

Fun fact: The Škoda 1000 MB and it's counterparts were infamous for overheating, caused by the radiator being sandwitched between the back seat and engine only being cooled by two side wents. To remedy this the 105 moved the radiator to the front, insanely increasing the ammount of coolant needed in the car that caused it's heater in the winter to be almost useless since it used the flow of the coolant to heat the cabin. And due to the long cooling tubes it whould take ages for all the coolant to heat up. Also the Trabant's heating was done by a shroud that was wraped around the exhaust pipe, and used the airflow of the main ventilator to blow the heat into the cabin, so if the exhaust happened to crack (which it did) you had a quick ticket to co2 poisioning

[@sato4kaiba]

That's one sweet bassline sound for your vid. Nice cars, very informative. Thumbs up xD

[@5zym3k67]

You should include FSO Polonez as well

[@ANDREWSAMY562]

Cadit quaestio wasn't it the car that Jeremy Clarkson called it the worst car in the world?

[@kamil707]

Andrew Samy Yes, this car was already in Top Gear :)

[@8Hshan]

Cadit quaestio And Polski Fiat 125p (later renamed FSO 1500), and Lada Samara, ZAZ 966, Tavria, Zastava 750, Zastava 1100...

[@Adrian90GT]

I had Polonez Caro+ 1.6Gli "97 One of my favourite cars. Had 76 hp, rwd no ABS, very simple car but not bad by any means. I had it 7 years, until 2015.

[@camillopesce1694]

Wlasnie sie mialem pytac gdzie Porucznik ;)

[@weiwu1442]

ladas are very popular on Cuban roads thanks to the Soviet alliance they had

[@borderex9993]

Definitely, I was there during winter.

[@helvihautala9267]

Kris A Lada made a great commercial about how tough it was.

[@donaldschmenk4345]

Oh yez! I will bring one back to the us

[@pivkemrzli2297]

great video! takes me back in time when i was a kid, some cars that our family owned are in the video too :) but you forgot to include some Zastava models. they were quite popular and would fit well with the theme of the video.

[@aryehyehudahajzenberg9503]

Dude... I loved this video.... Man... You made me happy.... I wish my late father (of blessed memory) was here with me to watch it ! My father was a car dealer in Brazil and a very big car fan.... He would havbe enjoyed it ! Thanks !

[@emanuilnedqlkov206]

what about moskvich tho :( i even have one

[@marko2993]

Em ...or ZAZ?

[@renetnk]

Many of them missing, but he cant make half hour video.. :P

[@kOSTb19999994]

Москвичи хорошие тачки, только сильно ненадёжные :)

[@emanuilnedqlkov206]

mines got 470k kilometers on it so i think it is reliable enough (used google translate for your comment)

[@marko2993]

AirBasSvk Yeah, but he could've added a pic in the end. They were common cars.

[@GG-nl8xy]

Greetings from Hungary!!! Awesome video, well done Visio Racer.

[@HAPKAH]

Greetings, a man from the land of Ikaruses ;)

[@Zen_atm]

"On our streets" *soviet anthem plays*

[@dosbox907]

I love how all the fancy v8 cars were meant for higher ups. it just goes to show that no matter what system. equality is only for the poor being equally poor to each other.

[@philmoseley2259]

Everyone is equal, but some people are a little more equal than others

[@oiartsun]

Or, you know, maybe just allocate the more powerful cars to those who actually need them. Why exactly does the average person need a V8?

[@hermanmunster3358]

Exactly, communism is designed to suppress only the working classes, and prevent them from moving onwards and upwards. Hence why communist countries stagnate, because nobody has any wealth to stimulate the economy. Nobody that is, apart from the political bourgeoisie, who filter off what wealth there is, into Swiss bank accounts.

[@hermanmunster3358]

@@oiartsun Well by your logic, V8's shouldn't exist at all. Because NOBIDY actually NEEDS a V8, do they? Its all about having the FREEDOM to choose. And if an ordinary working class Joe can afford a V8, then why shouldn't he/she have one?

[@dario62589]

@@hermanmunster3358 They are perfecting it on China, where you have comunism to oppress the people, no free speech, no questions allowed, work 24hrs a day for cents and then invade the world with your low production costs products thanks to your liberal economy. Comunism for the people liberalism for the corporations that's the NWO dream.

[@MArcin91]

8.00 two hybrids car and syrena. It fits perfectly there :D Where is fiat 125p and polonez?

[@grebo121]

My fav part of the video! >:D

[@peterkiss1204]

It was a hybrid. It went on 50% petrol, 50% hope. :D

[@pasivaan9563]

Great video. Lada 1200 0:10 was a good car. It was a real winter car. It started well, it was warm, it moved well in the snow. It was simple, easy to fix, cheap. Okay, it was not Mercedes, but it came from place A to place B

[@MichaelFay63]

Second only to Wolkswagen in sales. Very good car!

[@rvbrexer]

It was basically a Fiat 124, I'm surprised he didn't say it in the video. Are most of you eastern people unaware of this important fact?

[@jwserge]

We the Russians know it from our birth ))) And now i got the best car - the Lada 1500 (VAZ 2103) and i am happy like a baby )) This car has not only engine, body, heater, nice decoration. It has the JOY!

[@doge2483]

It is vaz 2101

[@swissmade4200]

now its real drift winter car ;)

[@raychang8648]

Very interesting video! Subscribed. I love the sound of those 2-strokes!

[@lalalala7708]

Volga is a cool car! Thanks for the neat video on these cars not well known here in the West! Love seeing car guys all over the globe! Thanks again!

[@NenadTrajkovic]

You are missing Aro, Zastava,IMV{Novo Mesto) and TAS(Sarajevo)!

[@bencelaczko9123]

nah, thats yugoslavia

[@badatdota2811]

Still communist.

[@hornoaca]

Thx for saying ARO(random romanian)

[@matic7830]

also Citroen models were made in Yugoslavia ( Slovenia)

[@NenadTrajkovic]

Matija Urbas true in cimos in kopar,my father drove cimos Citroen ami 8

[@robertnicolae1882]

This video is more about Skoda than the other communist cars

[@copperhammer]

None of these cars is a winner by a long shot, but the Skoda would at least come in 3rd in a 2 horse race.

[@Rebelxfree]

Thank you for uploading this video. My coworkers enjoyed watching they come from Masadonian, Serbia ,Bulgaria, Bosnia, Poland . They spoke highly of the Volga .

[@NIKOLAP7]

In my country (Macedonia) during Communism, the Volga was the car of for the important people. For the regular people the Zastava 750, Zastava 101 and Zastava Koral (Yugo) were the most popular. FIAT 126P was also common. If you had a bit more money to spend you could had Zastava 1300 (FIAT 1300) if you could afford to run it. There were also Trabants, Wartburgs, Lada, Skoda. My late great grandfather used to own Skoda 1000 MB.

[@davidporowski9512]

Amazing Variety of vehicles from behind the Iron Curtain. GR8 Video. Thanx for sharing.

[@AggroJack94]

In soviet russia cars drive you

[@KH-pt4un]

AggroJack94 Those cars drives you into accidents or even some mysterious places LOL.

[@taron-armanKasparyan]

Predator XR wtf are you tolking you can't say that every car out sovjet russia is bad

[@KH-pt4un]

I am not meaning to say "bad"

[@taron-armanKasparyan]

Predator XR no but you reference to bad

[@Kanc1erz]

Hah, u forgot about "crazy" :D

[@finno123456]

the skoda 130 was not a bad looking car at all but as soon as skoda made the newer type before vw the design got ugly even skoda back in the 50s and 60s where beautifully designed cars

[@bluesharp59]

I will say some of those cars are actually pretty cool.

[@walterkersting1362]

bluesharp59 Cool in the way long bread lines are cool.

[@bluesharp59]

@@walterkersting1362, I would never buy one though.

[@walterkersting1362]

bluesharp59 my dad had a fiat 128, or whatever it was that was the equivalent of the Russian lada, but it had electric starter not crank. Not too bad a car but depressing to look at. Negative points cool factor.

[@addiehernandez8255]

@@bluesharp59 they got character though, I would buy one.

[@bluesharp59]

@@addiehernandez8255 Cool i will say.

[@royledford5673]

Another excellent video, VR! Thank you very much. I have always enjoyed the Western "orphan" cars, owning something common has never appealed to me. My Grandfather once remarked, "Dayum, Son...everything you got is oblong or obsolete!" That was 40 years ago : )

[@MegaCARS2000]

Eyyy, hello from Romania! Your chanel is one of my favourite. Good luck with your chanel and I wish many more people will subscribe to your chanel!

[@LachinSerdarov]

simple is the best

[@pconstad8674]

Really no need for forced “Closed Captioning”. We hear in the West have the option to turn it on if needed. Thanks for the Great Video’s ‼️

[@JBofBrisbane]

I first saw the GAZ 24 Volga in the TV coverage of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, and liked the look of it straight away. I have a 1:43.5 scale model of one, a souvenir of the Soviet Union pavillion at World Expo '88. If I owned one, I would try to shoehorn in a Holden "red motor" inline six. The Fiat 126 was sold in Australia for a few years, under the make/model FSM Niki. They had a reputation for falling on their sides if you tried to corner too fast.

[@TiborRoussou]

I enjoyed your video. I only recognized a couple of these cars. My brother owned a Lada, but it wasn't a crank start! Thank you for sharing and have a great day :)

[@tomaskusnir2374]

I think the export models were more refined and had features that domestic market cars didn't have. This goes for many of the eastern block cars

[@fartsovschik]

Latest LADAs havent crank start options. I have 2107 made in 1996, it cant be started by crank.

[@HunterShows]

I could watch this and listen to this accent all day.

[@drawingboard82]

I came here because of Spintires! Nice list of cars, only seen a few of them. A friend of mine had a ZAZ 966m but I didnt see that on your list and dont know anything about them :-)

[@AtomicElectronCo]

Wow! I drove one LADA when I was in Slovakia...I had NO IDEA you could hand crank it. The 1000B is so cool. I don't know why....but I love it! I drove a Skoda 120L for 5 years when I was in Bratislava before finally buying an Opel Astra H.

[@dragosditu2176]

Please do "10 Of The Most Popular Eastern Motorcycles Made By Communists" next.

[@sergeisharov710]

Just google it 1. Иж 2. Ява 3. Минск 4. Урал 5. Восход 6. Сова Don't forget to add мотоцикл to each of these words.

[@szlatyka]

Well there's also Jawa, MZ, Simson, Pannónia, and Danuvia/Csepel - to add a little multinational vibe to this.

[@militianulpulii9218]

Mobra...from Romania...

[@HazedLiqz]

The Volga sounds like a Ford Flathead

[@yungfishe]

Chase Watkins And produces half the power sadly lmao

[@HazedLiqz]

compared to flatty? A 3/4 race flatty tends to only make 180whp.

[@gdfhds970]

Chase Watkins I agree they sound similar and both have low compression ratio so the power output is quite low but they can run on low octane fuel. I'm not sure but i think volga engine is pushrod not flathead.

[@ScaryMetalGuy]

It was basically powered by Ford Y block V8, which Russians adapted for their low-quality gas. They had to, the sticks were clogging the carburetor :-)

[@theq4602]

That's why I suddenly thought "ford flathead" as soon as one was shown. Well at least I now know where to get good parts for a rebuild.

[@jhni1]

I had a Lara and it went like a rocket and never used a drop of oil. The problem was the vacuum operated wipers that went slower the faster you were going. Great video

[@EPAGHGDDEXPERTjohnnyboy]

Russians make things to last a very long time. they perfected the art of jet engines , less maintenance and can handle any kind of weather

[@szekelygergely711]

Nice, tho this show was a bit too Czechslovakia-biased. A few more car should've been included, like the Moskvitch, ZAZ, Yugo, Dacia, ARO, FSO...

[@antep6157]

Székely Gergely Well he is Slovak so...

[@LoSpotItaliano]

Székely Gergely i was born in Ukraine and didn't see most of these cars

[@thens83srb]

Yugo was made in Serbia as part of Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia was not a part of Soviet block.

[@irocket]

What about Zastava and ZAZ?

[@obinator9065]

Boner Johnny didn't Yugoslavia had communism too?

[@libed91]

Yes we had a communist system but were not a part of Eastern block since Tito didn't want to be Stalin's little bitch.

[@Mirage2000H]

It was preferred to be called as "socialism". From a market perspective, nearly the same thing.

[@cedavelja6120]

Ma nemaju oni pojma sta je Fica, Stojadin, Jugo i ostali!

[@durodrkafon3569]

ja znam staje .....sranje!

[@walterkersting1362]

Old joke from the Reagan days: guy in the eastern bloc finally received the news that he has been selected and granted the privilege of being put on the waiting list to buy car. Hey says to the bureaucrat handling the transaction when can I pick it up? Bureaucrat says exactly 7 years from today’s date. Guy says what time? Bureaucrat says what difference does it make seven years from now exactly what time of the day do you pick it up? Guy says well, the plumber is coming in the morning that day…

[@roya.cathcartjr.5042]

I loved Ronald Reagan's old jokes about the Soviet Union and always looked forward to hearing them every time he would speak.

[@beadsman13]

Where is AZLK (АЗЛК) aka Moskvich (Москвич или Московец). From where do you come from? Cuz most popular car here in Bulgaria was Lada/Zhiguli and Moskvich. We had Moskvich 408. In winter months just put 2 sandbags in trunk and you have snowmobile :)

[@peterattilakriszt3150]

We shouldn't forget about Zastava 311 alias Yugo, Zaporozec (ZAZ 968M), Warsawa, Polski Fiat 125p - Lada like -, Aro, Moskvits, Tavria,

[@compressionreleasetechnolo4847]

Your videos are always very well made and very informative. You are right about one thing: I had no idea these cars existed. I was surprised to see European fascination with 2 strokes.

[@catjudo1]

Hell yeah, I'll subscribe! I've not seen many of these cars before, and I definitely didn't know that the Volga was ever built with a V8 (that the example shown sounded like a small block Chevy at a stoplight just made it that much cooler!). I want one now, and I REALLY want one of those Tatras, as I've never seen anything production with a rear mounted V8! That is just badass, though I can imagine how twitchy that car could get with that rear engine... You missed one though (and I'm guessing it's because it's hard to find one). Zil! Because any rich slob can ride in a Mercedes...

[@alexbiro262]

I grew up loving most of these cars as a youth in Hungary. Thank you Visioracer for this video, you should do a video on the Zuk and IFA vehicles and trucks at some point

[@PlayingRulezz]

as a skoda 120l owner, i enjoyed watching this video! keep it up pal!

[@user-qw2vo5tg2d]

Volga had V8? ha ha ha ho ho hooo only KGB had V8

[@user-pp9xi1cx8s]

не выебывайся

[@Lincolnator721]

si

[@1m201]

Не для кгб хотели делать V 6 / Not for the KGB wanted to do V 6

[@RayVinyard]

Stasi also had the V8

[@user-nd2zc3um8y]

Омерикавце СтранаКалович легенда брат

[@edmundkonkolich8743]

Cool vid, interesting info! I really didn't know about some of those vehicle's existence. OK, I was aware of the Trabant badge/name & how truly sad they were, but the fact that there were even SADDER examples of "communist cars" that were produced had me taken aback. Cut 'n' glue is one thing, rusting on the assembly line would seem to be worse in my book. The Fiat, I know, is actually what eventually became the Yugo here in the States. My fav joke on them was, "Why did they put a rear window defroster on the Yugo? . . . To keep your hands warm when you had push it during Winter!" I DO remember one of the Yugo print ads published in car mags touting something to the effect that they "made sure to ship over plenty of spare/repair parts BEFORE delivering any assembled units for sale". This, so they wouldn't have to wait for parts to be shipped & be prepared for good customer service in the event you needed repairs. Yeeeeeeah. . . right. If there's ANY group of American voters that would have ONLY ONE SINGULAR REASON to resist the DMC in general, but ESPECIALLY their shift to socialism & its INEVITABLE evolution into communism, it would be. . . THE ENTIRE CAR COMMUNITY! Everybody from the cr*p/bullsh*t spewing ricers & posers, to hardcore builders, to design & engineering geeks should realize that this list is EXACTLY what we'll have to choose from if American goes down that route.

[@Victimesty]

I loved the Syrena, spoutin blue smoke clouds right between hybrid green taxis!

[@sasjadevries]

9:19 Nope, 'they' didn't use cast iron to keep the rear end stable. The KGB had some heavy (radio) equipment in the back iirc, but after the cars were sold to ordinary citizens, they obviously removed that equipment. And people just filled that empty spot with a weight. --- By the way the GAZ 12 13, 20, 21, and zil cars are also worth mentioning... Although they were not a 'popular' car.

[@napalmv8356]

V8 power!! ;)

[@rdallas81]

He said they put weight in the back. You said they put weight in the back. Same.

[@sasjadevries]

@@rdallas81 Well I said they put useful weight in the back. I.e. there is a difference between putting weight in the back to fix a bad suspention design, and adapting the suspention to match the weight that's been planned.

[@NorthernChev]

Bakelite-Motor-Wagen! Fantastic! I laughed so hard.

[@pedrogallegos9545]

NorthernChev WHAT'S so funny?? I guess you laugh at ALL the 1960s version cars...... YOU TYPICAL WESTERN STUPID ASS. ...

[@joonavalkonen3077]

Pedro Gallegos stfu commie

[@michaelkovac2524]

In Turkey too ....

[@slavomir8045]

The Trabant was cheapest car for peoples (only outside panels were from Duroplast) , in France was also produced cheap car the Citroen 2CV

[@user-ro5ho3yd3d]

listen, pedro, the dude's laughing at the name and how poorly the car performs.

[@AlessandroGenTLe]

Nice one mate! MY father, here in Italy, had to buy a Skoda after he built the house in 1975 (money went in the house). He was actually HATING it, but still I've good memories about that car :) Thanks for showing us this world that, here in the so called "western world" was really unknown for us until a couple of decades ago.

[@jeshkam]

My dad owned the Fiat 126 "Bambino" (export version as far as I'm aware) in a beautiful sky blue color. Each year we used to travel from where we lived in the south of Poland to the Polish seaside (around 635 km), we had a bit of stuff in the frunk, some lugguage on the roof plus a small trailer, Niewiadow N250 with the majority of our lugguage. There were four of us and our dog in the car. You may believe it or not, this Fiat broke only once en route (minor issue with the brakes, which my dad fixed in no time by himself). Those were the most enjoyable and fun trips one could imagine, we had a lot of space in the back, my dad got a proper Sharp cassette/radio player and we used to listen to our 1980s mixtapes with Robert Palmer, Robbie Nevil or Hall & Oates. I swear no amount of money or no luxury car could ever match that experience...

[@jhassett2]

The Tatras look very cool....The Syrena is cute too...I like the Volga.....Lots of Skodas on the road in Ireland when I was a kid.Funny how they seem much prettier now than they did then....We had Ladas from the 1980's onwards...We also had Polski Fiats and I seem to remember a few Polonez too...

[@ZerokillerOppel1]

Same here in Holland only more Lada's in the seventies.

[@ExBroSeeYou]

Fiat 126... In my country it´s called Peglica xD

[@rvip8746]

7:57 Fact that hes revving nice old and smoky two-stroke between two hybrid cars👌

[@bernarddelafontaine6747]

In Belgium we were very familiar with your cars. We had concessionaries of Lada: Fiat copy, Samara, Niva; Volga: sedan and break (breaks were indestructible, often driven by people in building industry, they drove up to 35 or 40 years with them (Volga sedan was built according to a plan that was meant for GM, but was refused); FSO (no way to open windows!); Skoda 130, 105 etc (only available in 3 colours: beige, green and orange); Yugo (only 1 model); Wartburg and Zündapp (motorcycles and small vans); Dacia (copy of Renault 18). The Lada Niva was considered as the best small terrain vehicle once all the parts had been replaced.

[@jody024]

This list is very interesting and it was cool get a small insight into your family history.

[@crankshaft7270]

Great video! keep up the good work!

[@eigensinn83]

Wheeee... that takes me back. Thanks for the vid! ^_^

[@johnlannigan9831]

Great video, what version of Life Could Be A Dream is that playing right at the very end?

[@Petruuccios]

Really nice video. Maybe you could upgrade the summary with other popular cars. I miss some of the popular 4x4 models like Niva, GAZ69 or AroThere were many more than 10 unknown models built over the 4 decades, until western brands bought our national factories.Actually some of those you mentioned for sure could be known to western people, because they came from the west and were build here in license. And many others were exported.Like Lada 1200 (VAZ 2101) which is modified italian Fiat 124 (which has won car of the year 1966 in the western press).Fiat 125p, Fiat 126p are polish clones of italian Fiat models 125 and 126Dacia 1300 is licensed Renault 12

[@wtrdogg20]

Very interesting video!!! I really liked it!!!

[@zovanyiattila3558]

Thank you mate it was good to see these cars! We have a lada samara from 1989 still rolling strong

[@Herzogluca]

VAZ 2010/2103 were practically Fiat model 124. The design was revised to adapt the vehicle to the conditions (road and climatic) present in eastern Europe.

[@parvezsheikh8387]

Good work. Keep Going ✌😉

[@BalintStefan99]

Bro where is Dacia 1410 Sport? 1.4 64hp

[@Darx97]

Emanuel TheGamer o aruncat și Dacia aia la final ... am așteptat să o vad in videoclip mai in detaliu ... meh

[@andrebalance6889]

Emanuel TheGamer. Anybody selling Dacia 1300. Platec sa trimiteti in America.

[@stuartwilkie4887]

The UK got many of these cars in the 1970's. When I was a child in our first house, our neighbour had a yellow Skoda 110. In our next house from 1977 there was a guy four doors up who had a yellow Moskovitch 412 eastate. On the other side of the cul-de-sac was a man who had a navy blue Wartburg 353. A friend of mine had a blue 1988 FSO 125p. He took me home in it once. It was comfortable to sit in and had a good heater. It met its end when the wind caught a heavy gate and slammed into it while he was driving. He drove it for a little while after, but soon got rid of it. While at Uni, a flatmate of mine had a white Yugo three door hatch. I believe it used to belong to his mum, and it was very well looked after and never broke down. I believe the Moskvitch was an official import for a time, but the FSO and Lada as well as the Yugo were available for many years. I collected brochures, and believe it or not have these three makes represented there. In 1993 the cheapest Lada "Riva" was an inexpensive car in Britain costing about 4,500 pounds. I liked the fact it had a warranty and I'm sure it would have lasted well if looked after properly.

[@nexoq4914]

Finnaly u made video like this :)

[@nexoq4914]

+rep ,ello VisioRacer ,ur fan from Estonia :)

[@VisioRacer]

Hello, buddy!

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

I am not sure if they still have it but there is a fella here in Jackson Michigan that has a Trabant. They would take it to the Downtown cruise nights and people would stop to look at it.

[@Mark-nu5vg]

Haven't been on in a while good to be back

[@iongaztableta2260]

They made 2 million Dacia 1300/1310, more than any Skoda model you mention in this video. The Aro 24 was in high demand in western countries with most cars being exported. They were also manufactured in Spain and Portugal. The Mercedes G Klasse was inspired by the Aro 24.

[@cs-rj8ru]

My father in law had an ARO for 25 years. 2nd man in his village to own a car. Purchased in in 1980/81. I drove that ARO myself a little. Personally I liked it, especially that it was a diesel. Downsides? Lots....SLOW I doubt his could make 55. Build quality was a little rough, lots of rough welds and poorly aligned parts. The heater never did really work and he had a heater unit of his own sitting on the pass side floor that was plumbed into the coolant lines. They cut it up for scrap a few years ago. looking back I wish I had brought it to the States as an antique and restored it.

[@iongaztableta2260]

I believe you but let's not forget that this is a 1972 model. It's only fair to compare them with cars from the same period. Every day I pass by 2 Golf Mk2 that are a decade younger than the Aro. And to say they did not age well it's an understatement. They are just a pile of rust.

[@peterbelohorec7652]

yes, u r right. but, every skoda lives more then 3 dacias. rust killed them in a very few years... rust all over dacias. dacia is a rusty car. even now.

[@iongaztableta2260]

Renault 12 was a large family car designed for the French middle class and built in Romania as Dacia 1300. Skoda was a luxury brand before WWII but not after. Not at all! They became cheap and brutally ugly communist cars built for people who had no other choice. In my country they were brought by people who could not afford a Dacia. I totally love today's german Skoda's, but without VW they would have followed the fate of the Tatra cars.

[@johnwayne8114]

Oltcit had some issues, but it's also true a lot of owners AND mechanics didn't really know how to keep them in top shape. Plus the usual 80's / early '90 manufacturing budget shortages. Despite that, it's really NOT a bad design, and some series were better than others. The newer design Citroen flat four engine combined with a lighter body would make it somewhat racier than the Dacia at the time.