Why Communists Sucked at Making Cars | WheelHouse

Communism gripped the USSR from the early 1900s until 1991. The people had to get around somehow, so why not build some cars? Join Nolan as he explores Soviet Russia and the strange cars the communists built.
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[@LifeofBoris]

nice music you have there

[@ryanalfe2146]

nice it’s boris

[@jhusty5594]

is it real boris !??!?

[@da_rektor3958]

Hello Boris

[@alrizal8953]

ITSSSSS BORISS

[@5cylinderdreamz]

Hey Boris you should get an rs1000

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"I didn't order a convertable!" "Let me see something, ah yes car was made on friday." "What does that have to do with it!" "Factory only has roofs on first three days of week."

[@gratefuldean69]

Hahaha

[@kylepirko9251]

@Jakub Komárek that's cool to know, my man. Thanks!

[@yeyliz2161]

convertible*

[@atarvhegde5210]

At least , the rich people in ussr had choice of ZIL Limosines, In India , we followed the soviet model and that made importing cars illegal. Due to all this socialist shit , Indians had no options. Only in 90s, after USSR collapsed , liberization happened.

[@garage5125]

chevrolet was making limousines that all of them were convertible. they were all converting to ,, roof of" faster than any todays cars. all you needed to do was crash into lada, and the roof came off in split second:-))

[@paulromsky9527]

I had a girlfriend who grew up in Minsk in the 60s,70s,80s. She was not a techie at all, but she had a great knowledge of automobiles. She told me, because of the lack of repair garages and the poor roads in Belarus (part of the Soviet Union back then), you had to learn how to do basic maintenance on your own car before you could drive. She was taught the basic knowledge of every part of the car in high school - if you wanted to drive you needed to pass that class. Tune up, oil change, change tire, coolant maintenance, brake inspection/replace, inspect wires and ignition, clean and gap spark plugs, chassis lube, clean air/oil filters... they reused oil filters, tighten bolts... the list went on.

[@jonathanng138]

You must be a baby boomer then

[@matthewevans3718]

Wish I had that class in high school

[@BatCaveOz]

It is weird that it took her three decades to grow up.

[@matthewevans3718]

@@BatCaveOz lol

[@paulromsky9527]

@@BatCaveOz ​ She was 5 in 1968, 15 in 1978, and 20 in 1983. So that is what I call growing up (ages 5 to 20), before that you are a very young child, after that you are an adult. So, she grew up in the 60's, 70's and 80's... not weird at all.

[@SiqueScarface]

The Melkus 1000RS was the project of a guy named Heinz Melkus in Dresden, East Germany. His small company was a car dealership, had a driving school, and Heinz Melkus and his sons were racing drivers, building and driving their own cars like the SRG MT 77, an open wheel car with the engine of the Lada/Fiat 124 and the gearbox of the Wartburg 311. The Melkus 1000RS used the 3cyl 2stroke engine of the Wartburg 353 and also its front screen.

[@skulldude101]

cool info

[@adamzalabai]

Do Up to Speed on Lada. We really need it.

[@metallicarchaea1820]

Honestly they need an Up to Speed on Lada before an UtS on Prius like so many people ask for.

[@marcik.8471]

@@metallicarchaea1820 fucking definetly. But the americans don't really know about the magic of Ladas. Especially VFTSs.

[@FluffyL3vy]

@@marcik.8471 Americans don't know about how Moskvitch raped everyone at 68' Rally.

[@weezy1989]

The most bullet proof car ever made.. I'm from Jamaica and have never seen one down n out. The freaking body with fall off around the engine haha #greatness

[@Piotr94L]

@@marcik.8471 VFTS and Rotary too

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

I live in Bulgaria and it's impossible to go to a village without seeing a Lada, Moskvich or a Trabant. Old people genuinely love them and you can get them second hand for dirt cheap.

[@gabrielnascimento1021]

I have half bottle of Vodka Ok it's yours

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

@@gabrielnascimento1021 honestly you could probably buy one for a few bottles of Rakija

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

@@znj4450 well I'm not legally allowed to drink it since I'm 15 but that doesn't stop me

[@rafsccp]

ladas are worthing over 10k euros lol

[@reelne]

​@@rafsccp where are they worth 10k lol? Dunno bout germany and other nice countries, but here in Russia you can get one for literally 300 euros in good condition. It's a shitty car tho, mostly used by teenagers to drift.

[@fraser21]

I know you won't get this from a car channel, but in fairness the cities were also designed to be a lot more livable without everyone needing their own car

[@troyc4841]

In my country the design is that the car is a necessity as there is limited public transport and all jobs are 50 + miles away. you cannot live close to job because you cannot afford.

[@jamesray1439]

I knew I’d find an r/communism nerd. Listen bud, capitalism won the Cold War. Hell had it not been for Lend Lease in the 40’s, communist wouldn’t have survived WW2.

[@jamesray1439]

@@fraser21 communism worked so well it needed the capitalist west to financially save it multiple times.

[@goiabagamer5551]

yes, people lived like 10 minutes of walk from their job

[@urabus5363]

I was gonna say the USSR had really good public transport so there was basically no need for a car.

[@joerobinson69]

For anyone scratching their heads at the plumber joke in the beginning (as I was): it references a joke made by President Reagan in the 1980s regarding how all goods and services took forever to obtain because of the inefficiency of communism. The plumber was going to come the same morning 10 years in the future as the car (not the following day). I got confused because it sounded like the plumber was going to come the following day and the car was going to come in 10 years.

[@Rimonds]

Hi guys, I'm from Latvia. Before 1991 we ware a part of USSR. My granddad got a car after 12 years of waiting in line. When I was 10 he thought me how to drive, it was his beloved LADA VAZ- 21076. It's a light 4 cylinder 1.6L 75Hp rear-wheel drive 5-speed manual car that was simply AMAZING, omg that feel of those cars is insanely cool. I got it as my first car at age of 20 when I got my drivers license. I still have the car as my second car. Great cars but anything above 120kmh/75 mph is scary :D You really feel the speed in that thing and brake are horrible. :D

[@kingpotato7183]

Over 20 years and the car still works

[@j_rivera2007]

Wait ✅-small 1.6 liter engine ✅-manual ✅-rwd ✅-light Yep basically a Miata

[@Darkest_matter]

@@kingpotato7183 yeah I'd expect the car to work 20 years down the line

[@demonrat9667]

Lol imagine having to wait 12 years to be able to get a car... i got my first car before i could legally drive in America lol... my elderly neighbor had a 74 buick electra that sat under his car port for years. I mowed his lawn and other lawns in the neighborhood the summer of my freshman year in high school and bought the car for 600 dollars. Then I worked on the car myself and got it into running order and started driving it just out on country dirt roads to learn how to drive... and when I turned like 14 or 15 i got my learners permit and 16 i got my actual drivers license... in capitalism a child can own a car... under communism and adult has to wait 12 years to even be able to have a car LOLOL

[@nikosk.8216]

@@dougerrohmer So true. Cuba really had balls. Making a country standing on it's own on embargo is serius tough.

[@mishyDism]

Fun story. My grandad from Kiev got lucky and got a Volga without the waiting list because he was a scientist. The day he exited the factory, multiple people were waiting outside to offer to buy it. One person even offered 3 times the original price. But my grandad said no and kept it for himself which I respect :D

[@Nemo7The7Pirate7]

Amazing. I would expect at least somebody in that group offer your granddad's life for it. Crime was very low at those times I guess.

[@skflwphgaawfas7402]

No it wasn't. It was just overlooked or bypassed by the media to make "the more progressive country, which is socialist" look better than others. Fun fact: in today's russia nothing has changed

[@Vivacomunismo]

@@skflwphgaawfas7402 lol russia isnt progressive lmfao

[@julianpetkov8320]

@@Nemo7The7Pirate7 Don't know about Ukraine, but in Bulgaria you could leave your door unlocked, unless you lived next to the Gypsy Mahal, but even that wasn't too risky. Crime was rare because there were no drugs and most people had to be at work.

[@kineticmusiclines]

@@julianpetkov8320 Crime was state run at the time. ...as a Pole I know it well.

[@tepesvoda464]

A Moskwich owner goes to an auto parts store: Hei, can I have a fuel cap for my Moskwich? Store keeper thinks for a moment, then nods and says: Ok. That sounds like a fair exchange.

[@TOFKAS01]

8:55 Funfact: Melkus was one of the few privat companies in the GDR. And its still existing. For example, Ronny Melkus was a teammate of Ralf Schumacher in Formula 3.

[@TheKubyk]

and it was made from Wartburg 353. 51kW, 0-100 12 seconds

[@rainer2810]

A Melkus RS 1000 GTR had 90 -100 HP from a three cylinder Wartburg 2stroke Engine. The car was handcrafted in the GDR.

[@cristianghidireac7628]

“All people are equal, but some are more equal than others”

[@Jent1466]

Animal farm

[@Cofimaslisa]

capitalism

[@szymusu]

@@Cofimaslisa ?

[@Cofimaslisa]

@@szymusu in capitalism, people are equal to each other(poor) and some are more equal(rich bilionaires gaining because we are poor)

[@testaccount4191]

@@Cofimaslisa I don't think you have read animal farm

[@r3b1rth53]

As a Russian, I've never been that offended with something I completely agree with

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

LOL respect to people who lived under soviet lands. but to be fair most people around the world were starving last thing they cared about was a means of transportation.

[@AndreAndFriends]

It was all Polish fault. Only if we tried little harder, the Warsaw Pact would rule the world. Now the USA is the new CCCP. Tovarish Beijing Biden.

[@polentusmax6100]

@@AndreAndFriends Ah yes, poland to rule the world, i guess you had to start another world war to get this

[@AndreAndFriends]

@@polentusmax6100 what?

[@polentusmax6100]

@@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx i would buy a car if a were in those comunist countries too, since food was rationated. You can always find a lot of oportunities where nobody have a car to move stuff around. And the resale value was amazing in those countries, so a car was a investment.

[@mishagelenava2962]

Talking about Volga cars, you mentioned GAZ-21, but there was also GAZ-24, which was newer model. I like the design of 21 better than 24, but you had to mention 24 as well. Another significant model to mention was Lada Niva, the Soviet off road car.

[@CHixon]

Nice presentation. I wanted to do a write up on USSR cars in school back in the '70's but soon discovered that there was no information available at the public library.

[@andrewnardo1021]

It’s 2019 and Igor the machinist is still waiting for his car.

[@brunos6599]

Igor is a pos for not attending the 1969 neighbor's local party leader event. How dare he monopolize his time to help his sick dying mom and starved son? Doesn't he know that his time is the people's time?

[@daihatsumidget2700]

2020 now

[@buildawall5803]

Boi i got some news 4 u

[@Ultrase7en767]

Trust me I'm an engineer

[@IgorsWoodCrafts]

I confirm

[@gabrielmoreira3453]

Designer: My design Communists: our design

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

Our *Stolen design

[@RIVERS2504]

@@ranjanbiswas3233 Someone doesn't know the meme

[@IsaakHunt]

Nope - "people's design"

[@p0tat0boi19]

I know the meme

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

@@RIVERS2504 I know, that's why I told stolen to make it dark humor.

[@tepesvoda464]

How do you double the value of a Lada? You fill it up with gas.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

This video is pretty dense and not stretched out to 25 minutes, which is rare to find now. Thanks

[@moonsapling]

Whatever soviet car you get, you go offroad with it.

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

Yugo offroad with it

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

Get it?

[@lcl0082]

@@nicolapalmieri7344 Get out (jk lol)

[@peteeraste5097]

Wherever you go in Russia, you can call it an off-road journey.

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

@@peteeraste5097 nyet, you call it Group B Rally Stage

[@S314159265358979]

I lived in USSR for 20 years since I was born, but never saw that MELKUS sport car you mentioned. Now I see why: it was produced in eastern Germany. These things never reached the mainland of USSR.

[@Booruvcheek]

When I was a kid in USSR in the 80's, one of my favorite pastimes was to learn and be able to recognize all car models, not just by the way they looked, but by their sound. So I could tell whether it was a Volga or a Moskvich / Izh driving by my window without looking. It wasn't hard. There were about 10 models, I guess, on the street. I remember my own excitement, when newer models, like VAZ 2108/2109, Moskvich 2141 and Tavria started showing up. But I have never, ever seen Melkus. I would probably jump out of my pants, that's how fast I would run to see that car. Nope. All I could see were the usual cars: ZAZ-968 (and, occasionally, older ZAZ-965, I still like how it looks), Moskvich 2140, sometimes a Moskvich 408 or Moskvich 412 would show up (hey! it had fins! I used to like these cars because of their taillights). Then there were IZh cars, this factory was a Moskvich (AZLK) offshoot, so they shared a lot. Like there was Moskvich 412, and there was IZh-412. But there were other models, like station wagon IZh-2125. VAZ cars (Ladas) were numerous, of course - VAZ-2101 (including 21011 and 21013), VAZ-2102, VAZ-2103, (then) newer VAZ-2104, 2105, 2106 and "Mercedes wannabe" VAZ-2107. Volgas, like GAZ-24 (or even older GAZ-21) were far fewer in number, but it surprisingly, they were used as taxis (by state taxi companies, the only taxi companies). GAZ also produced "executive-class" cars, like Chaika ("Seagull") GAZ-M13 and GAZ-14, but those were rare sights on the street. When I was a kid I kept hearing you could rent one for wedding. Can't tell if that was true or how hard would that be (note: not "how expensive", but "how hard would it be to get all the approvals and permissions"). As you can see, not that many models, especially considering that some (like the ever popular VAZ-2101, VAZ-21011 and VAZ-21013) were essentially the same model with different engine options or trim levels. In addition, they were not that much different, like 1.2L or 1.3L engine variations.

[@palpits3729]

wheres the latvia car

[@S314159265358979]

@@Booruvcheek we as kids were betting on certain car model and start counting, there weren't many of them)) and all the same trash

[@Tiger-lg5of]

Theres a good USSR video on YT about SKODA history.

[@gotoban4360]

it was german not soviet

[@harrold.j.marakta.1505]

5:31 you have Finland on the Soviet map even though it was just part of it for 1 or 2 years we became independent in 1917 and haven't been a part of Russia ever since

[@timlatte8302]

I knew 3 guys who bought 2nd hand 4wd ladas they loved them, had no trouble,thought the local dealers had fixed all faults and paid only small money. The 2wd cars had heated back windows to keep your hands warm while pushing them...

[@darius2640]

Imagine being among those 4% who got a car tho. No traffic jams, park in two spaces sideways where you want, thats the life

[@Random-nf7qb]

Not quite, cities weren't built for cars - no parking spots, big fines, narrow streets... Plus parts were hard to find - wipers and mirrors were stolen.

[@Donax695]

meanwhile back in a day my fam in Czechoslovakia had three fiats and nobody found it weird :D

[@MetalTrabant]

You can still get that feeling in North Korea...

[@drumyogi9281]

Eh not really. The black market was very, very high. For instance before the fall of the USSR upwards of 80% of commerce was black market in Romania. Your car would probably be keyed if you were a civilian or worse, stolen and scrapped for metal due to envy.

[@blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602]

*gets sent to gulag

[@IceMan-il7dx]

Soviets best engineers built rockets. The flunkies were sent to build cars.

[@savagetuner2404]

Ice Man their best engineers weren’t from Russia.

[@gabrielnascimento1021]

@@savagetuner2404 their best engineers were probably from Eastern Germany

[@savagetuner2404]

Gabriel Nascimento oy vey, they knew who to get

[@hardworker5588]

And the flunkies STILL just copied western cars. AOCommunist needs to move to Cuba to experience her workers paradise. Why do I think that instead of that she'll just be given her own show on MSNBC pulling down 3 mil per year and living like 18th century European aristocracy.

[@savagetuner2404]

HARD WORKER that sums it up right there.

[@tomo1168]

you should make a whole episode about the trabant 501. the panels are made from plant material (you can say composite), and the engine is a two-stroke, like your lawnmowers. two person can lift it up, so the turning radius is 3m like the car's length :D

[@douglasboyle6544]

1:13 Nailed it.

[@ignignxkt]

"Everyone is equal!.....except for me, this is my special car...........go back to work"

[@TraustiGeir]

While all the animals were equal, some were more equal than others.

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

Capitalism is when the corporations enslaves the state. Communism is when the state becomes a corporation.

[@tony_5156]

TraustiGeir animals vs civilized man Apples and oranges kid Try Try again

[@TraustiGeir]

@@tony_5156 I see you haven't read much of Orwell's work. That was a quote from his book, "Animal Farm".

[@jannadrielcervo7753]

@@TenorCantusFirmus Fair enough.

[@Alorand]

How can you not even mention the Lada Niva? It was winning races and selling like hotcakes in Western Europe. It was amazing for it's time.

[@generalhorse493]

Apparently it couldn't drive over a little sapling without blowing out the oil in it's engine. If Top Gear is to be believed.

[@user-ss6co6vj5f]

@@generalhorse493 They was BS-ing this car. Did you forget - how they was BS about low living battery in Tesla Roadster?!

[@generalhorse493]

@@user-ss6co6vj5f Interesting, considering it was the soviet car they liked the most out of the whole bunch.

[@valerkand9270]

@@generalhorse493 Yeah, they're BSing. Those Nivas are actually really capable of going offroad

[@generalhorse493]

@@valerkand9270 The one featured was doing a great job offroad, it's puny engine just got stopped by a rogue sapling.

[@wojtekpolska1013]

Poland had an interesting story - we imported A LOT of Italian Fiat 126p (nicknamed "Maluch" (means "The small one")), and also licensed it for domestic production, this car dominated polish roads for decades. while Italy ceased it's production in 1980, Poland continued making them all the way to the year 2000! We also had some domestically-produced cars, like FSO Warszawa, FSO Polonez, or even an entirely polish-designed FSO Syrena 105, tho these cars were a bit more expensive, and the average family were all squishing themselves into these small Fiats lol

[@christinazielinskigjftlc8545]

5:55 Country ball

[@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559]

AWD is the communism of engine power distribution

[@bibasik7]

Except it actually works.

[@ignoolio12nera96]

Not to be drivingwheelsnazi that would be 4wd with all diffs closed

[@averageboi5195]

No that would be 4wd

[@samantoniak1657]

Actually I think open all wheel drive is a good analogy. the wheel doing the least work gets the most power.

[@aurandon]

Sam Antoniak this is savage

[@rikkee5157]

In Soviet Russia You don't own a car, car owns you

[@mcbridemotorsports]

100%

[@_Anthony___]

Not True

[@yousefkiller1293]

Generic Soviet stfu

[@giwrgosts2382]

Whaaaat?

[@aperson-ci8nj]

Your joke stink booooo!!!

[@andriy1000]

I used to have 2 Ladas back in the day. 1972 VAZ 2101 (slightly updated FIAT 125 actually) and a later model VAZ 2108 of 1998 which had a nickname Zubilo (chisel) thanks to its wedge shaped body. The main problem with both these cars was their electrical components. They were so unreliable with tons of different bugs and gremlins, it was really impossible to fix them once and for all. Ignition often refused to work especially in the rainy day, so I used to leave them where they stopped and took a taxi to get where I needed, then came next day and engine just started easily like nothing had happened

[@teo2157]

Its so weird that i think of cars past 2010 as old, and you have had cars older than my mother.

[@Linus7671DX]

Latvia had a bus brand called RAF (Rīgas autobusu fabrika, literally, Bus factory of Riga). The RAF-2203 microbus was really popular not only here, but in other parts of the USSR.

[@uzogsi]

I remember those on the roads here in Bulgaria in the 90ties. Were they two-stroke or I remember wrong? edit: two years, dude what is my feed even recommending damn

[@claudiobizama5603]

Funfact: Auto VAZ/Lada made a Wankel Rotary engine for the 2101 and the Samara, some with twin or 3 rotors. But it was exclusive to police or KGB agents.

[@spikespiegel5878]

a VAZda?

[@Piotr94L]

You mean VAZ (Lada) 21018 (single rotor) and 21019/21057 2 rotor. 3 Rotor was only in GAZ 24 Wolga

[@AkeemKerimov]

And they still make those engines. You can buy one for smth like 650 dollars. With carburetor :)

[@eziiii]

@@AkeemKerimov Where can I get one?

[@sneakysnake7695]

@@AkeemKerimov I know where to get replacements for an RX7 lol

[@wiktorjachyra1869]

The joke at the beginning was a joke that Ronald Regan made btw

[@coleprivett9125]

So its basically about plumbers taking a while to come work?

[@wiktorjachyra1869]

@@coleprivett9125 no, it's about how it was making fun of the late timing of the delivery

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

This was a joke that people in the USSR said. Reagan got quite a lot translated for his speeches Another one : Once, Gorbachev was late for a meeting. He asked his driver to sit on the rear seat and drive himself, and started speeding. The car was seen by 2 cops on bikes, one of them starts chasing the car, then comes back to his partner "so, did you fine him ?" "no, no, he's too high profile, too important" "we were told to fine everyone, who was it ?" "I did not recognise him. But his driver was Gorbachev"

[@mrh0ck3y]

@@Duke_of_Lorraine see, I understand your joke. In still don't get the plumber joke.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

@@mrh0ck3y it's about the massive shortages for everything. You need to go through a 10-years waiting list to get your car (it was real give or take a few years, to give you an idea about how civilian car production was unable of following the demand) ? The joke is it's the same even for something as basic as a plumber. This was a joke soviet citizens told, Reagan had them collected and translated. A good way of showing how greater America was compared to the USSR. A man enters the office of a KGB agent "good afternoon, sir, I want to signal the theft of my pet parrot" "sir, we are the KGB here. For a theft, you need to signal to the police" "it's already done, but I want to tell that should my parrot be found, I strongly disagree with anything my parrot might say"

[@emanuell5926]

That was really nice and interesting, thank you for posting

[@davitka_p]

Also with the fact that soviet metro, subway and rail road system was insanely good, just the subways in Moscow transported more people than all of Britain 😳 Ppl didn’t have a dying need to own a car

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

At least they used the metric system.

[@savagetuner2404]

I'm Not Using My Real Name which got them to the moon right Edit: The clowns directly below don't realize they switched to metric AFTER they landed on the moon. Total idiots.

[@steppewop]

@@savagetuner2404 NASA uses metric.

[@astaldo]

Daniel NASA used imperial to get the moon and later switched to metric

[@MrBingping]

Not very well...

[@BaxterRoss]

Go away commie

[@ruscaryt4480]

my grandpa has lada. lada drives good. as comrade Boris once said, "you drive into deer, you make shashlik."

[@mrbiggiecheese312]

He said moose

[@ruscaryt4480]

moose is overrated

[@noone-io4yj]

He also said "VAAADIM BLYAT"

[@darkinstinct420]

@@ruscaryt4480 ты русский? Я азербайджанский

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

Shish Kebab?

[@bikerboy3k]

My father had an m21 when we were living in Italy. 2.3 in-line engine correct, I remember distinctly that it sounded like a tractor when turned on, had flat "bench" in the front that could be laid down and would allow an adult to sleep comfortably by resting the head on the rear "bench" and straighten the legs on the flat front one. It had a hydraulic Shifter pump and this was eventually what made it unusable because the pump's support bracket broke and my father couldn't fix it to the chassis anymore and couldn't find replacements. We became homeless in 2006 and parked the car across a river on the road while we slept in an abandoned trailer we found across that river in a field. One morning some hunters were shooting in the area and we were woken up by projectiles flying over and into the trailer, luckily we didn't get hit. Maybe they didn't know someone was living there. My father said they were doing it on purpose to have fun and scare us but who knows maybe they genuinely didn't know someone was in there. When we went to the car to go to the village and buy some food, as the car was stuck in 1st gear due to the pump being unusable, we saw several shotgun pellet holes in the right side of the car. Maybe the hunters thought was an abandoned car, and you already know what my father thought. Malicious acts. The projectiles didn't penetrate to the other side and to this day when you open the right hand side doors you can hear the pellets tumbling around on the inside of the doors. Before all this, many years before we were traveling through Slovakia and we stopped for a break, but the car wouldn't start back up. The starter was low on juice. So my father took from the back a lever, inserted it into the front grill(you'll see a small recess on the front chrome bumper and a hole when looking at the car from the front), climbed with his feet on the lever and cranked the engine that way. We went along our way just fine after that. It had blue sort of wool interior, the material was similar to those stuffed animals from the soviet Era that had metal wires in them to help them maintain their shape. It's synthetic and coarse, people from eastern europe would know what I'm talking about. The cigarette lighter worked and the radio had all letters in Cyrillic and we couldn't really tell what they meant although my father was forced to learn Russian during the 70s he could at least tell which one was volume, on and off and which one was the heater. The horn was actuated by a chrome ring running on the inside of the steering wheel bolted to the center and could be pressed wherever your hands were on the steering wheel. They were miserable times but this car was very unique and interesting to me.

[@JeffDvrx]

this was a great comment to read, glad you both made it through all that

[@augustsutherland2962]

It's really a totally opposite attitude to the US at the time. These cars are slow and not luxurious but they're built for DIRT CHEAP and are fairly reliable. This makes it the most practical option for a country that had Just gotten out of feudalism 50 years before, and industrialized only 10-20 years after that. It's easy to look at it as bad from a vantage in the US but for the soviets to even be making these by the mid 20th century is a testament to the strengths of a communist government(not that there aren't a good few weaknesses too.)

[@erikcapozzi3425]

America isn't that old and they just had a civil war before 2 world wars..one of which they supplied 75% of allied goods

[@MrPlowboy66]

USSR. Third world living conditions,with a first world military.

[@totalignoranceinc]

And yet we follow their example by spending more than the next 7 countries combined on our military while our infrastructure crumbles. Oh and were also fighting a never ending war in Afghanistan you know the same thing that financially destroyed the ussr

[@MrPlowboy66]

@@totalignoranceinc our infrastructure crumbles bc it's the easiest way politicians can milk money from the system. Obama spent 787 bil. On infrastructure.

[@anthony-li5hp]

@@totalignoranceinc but the commies were there to fight an enemy. were there for profit and political favors from Israel. and we spend more than the next 7 countries because we have to protect all the pussys in the nato because there communist/socialist economys cant afford there own military.

[@timothybennett0313]

@@totalignoranceinc yet our infrastructure is ten times better than there's as well as our military. Also GDP at $19 trillion where we only spend about half a trillion on military. We don't fix our infrastructure because we can't. Communist AOC wants to have 90% marginal tax but that will ruin the country. America is the best military and economy.

[@PaulRudd1941]

@@timothybennett0313 you misspelled "theirs" mate. Plus you provide no sources for your comment. Your credibility is as good as Mr. Trumps

[@gunya0]

RWD Ladas are still popular in Russia as dirt-cheap missile cars for ice drifting. And yeah, we have ice drifting championships here and classic ladas are the one of the best cars for that because of slim 13 inch tires and low weight.

[@blackcountryme]

We get Russian dashcam shows in the UK, Lada's are used as missiles to crash into other cars!

[@2bitmarketanarchist337]

Sounds like a lot of fun

[@alexandrvasilev2865]

@@blackcountryme that is a national sport! Like russian roulette

[@danon7646]

Ladas using everywhere

[@gunya0]

@@2bitmarketanarchist337 Sure it is! Here is a couple of videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2KpdaSeiaesp9E kzbin.info/www/bejne/emenoHmebZiUaZo

[@yegorbeliaiev5437]

the BEST video ever! Love every second of it! You can still find old soviet Ladas on the roads.

[@Istoeumapemba]

Here in Brazil, after returning of car imports, we got three Lada models. The unbeatable Niva, the boring Samara, and the Laika (2101), that was the cheapest car sold in Brazil (Costed 6900 dollars, against VW Beetle's 7200 dollars). Still today, there are Niva Clubs in Brazil.

[@Cooliohenrik]

0-60 in 55 seconds........... what am i complaining about that i have in 8 seconds 0-60

[@ventil9446]

What car?

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

@@ventil9446 the Moskvich 400

[@savagetuner2404]

Evil Morty that’s communism for ya.

[@alterbr33d]

And that's full throttle. What if you want to relax a little and put your foot down halfway?

[@peterpeterson4800]

In that time, going 96,5606km/h is either very fast, or practically impossible due to the roads. The top speed limit is still around 100 km/h in many places around the world today, so most of the time, it makes no differnce. Apart from the car beating itself to death when it's always going at it's top speed.

[@maitsepolitsei]

As somebody who was lived in USSR it is nice to see someone from forign country to have interest about our past and culture. Basic knowledge in this video was correct but I think I should comment some points. The thing is: despite new car with purchase licence via workers union might took really 7-10 years like You said there was many other options as well - and not only corrupted way what You mentioned. 1) used car - both private persons and state owned companies was able to sell their used cars and privat persons typically could buy them freely. 2) all new cars did not required licence for buying - small car zaz was most times available without any restriction, also during 80s there was the same case with other manufacturer Moschvich. 3) there was huge amount of cars what was owened by state owned companies but in reality nobody was banned their usage for private purposes - all kind of micro buses, light trucks, taxies etc. 4) people who had relatives in west or personal access to there (like ship stuff) had possibility to import western car, they was not banned in USSR, just complicated to keep alive without proper servicing. So.. despite there was some limiatations - it was actually like 50% easier to use or own car in USSR than this video points out :)

[@KrotowX]

Thanks about correction. As one who lived in USSR too I can agree with that. It still was very hard to get a car for average guy without connections and some notable amount of money.

[@90boiler]

Ant still 1000 times harder to get a damn car (or a normal washing machine, or a proper TV) than in any normal wester country.

[@YoutubeUser-nd8qv]

@@90boiler Seems we need that now, as we are fucking up the globe with this insane consuming festival we have going on. Nobody should be allowed to buy a new phone every year etc. but the whole economy would collapse if people would not buy new stuff all the time. Failed model.

[@doboziandras8935]

@@KZbinUser-nd8qv You right.

[@1mfilms]

@@KZbinUser-nd8qv You don't have to buy a new phone every year (actually, every other year is the norm). I know plenty of people that hold onto their phone for years. BUT innovative new features and excellent deals makes getting a new phone that more attractive. And it's great we all have the option to buy a new phone easily or just keep the one we have for years.

[@techno-beard]

You forgot about the "Pobeda" (Victory) car. This car has been produced since 1945, and has a revolutionary "pontoon" design, later adopted by all car manufacturers in the world.

[@bamuz]

A few months ago just before the war started I was looking into importing some Russian cars because honestly they’re all pretty cool little cars

[@MrLobsterity]

But now TV shows convinced you these cars are pure evil?

[@bamuz]

@@MrLobsterity lmaooo no. They weren’t shipping them over here then. Hell idk if they are now or not. Ps I’m far from the “Russia bad, Putin bad” narrative. 😉

[@thedandydandyyoutubechanny1847]

that joke was from ronnie regan who got it straight from gorbachev

[@K3mrM]

Mind to explain it? I just dont get the joke

[@thedandydandyyoutubechanny1847]

K3mrM the short version is that the plumber is coming in 10 years

[@sethmurphy531]

Daaang I just got that lol thank you!

[@kwanlinus6999]

Under Communism, wait for everything

[@zejdland]

@@K3mrM it's a joke about communist bureaucracy and the waiting lists

[@LunringNassar]

To anyone who doesn't get the joke that Nolan said on the start of the video: When the guy said there's a 10 year waiting list, "should I pick it up on morning or afternoon" then he said, "The plumber's coming in the morning" meaning he also had to wait 10 years for the plumber to come.

[@GBBWAR]

lol i didn't get it at first

[@LunringNassar]

@Silverio Garcia the car took 10 years to get, the plumber also took 10 years to wait.

[@peterdarr383]

The reason for the explanation is because of the "dumbing down" of America. Keep up the good work.

[@jd_the_cat]

How am I the only one that understands Soviet humor?

[@bluelotusnanebi]

@@jd_the_cat yeah, if you don’t have even a basic understanding of Soviet realities, Soviet jokes would easily fly over your head lol

[@flioink]

Where I live, some people used to refer to "Moskvitch" as "the digger" Trabant was "cardboard box" That "Volga" model has bodywork metal plates with over 5mm thickness at places.

[@mrKozmoz]

I am surprised you didn't use the classic Trabant factory worker clip of the worker bashing parts to fit, and then giving up when it's just ok.

[@deadmansfire]

Damn,no mention of the Lada Niva? The Soviet G-Class (in that that they are still producing it with no big change)

[@Piotr94L]

Niva was soviet SUV true badass was UAZ

[@AkeemKerimov]

More like Suzuki jimny class. G-class is UAZ Hunter (modified UAZ 469 ‘71)

[@emilsbumbieris7810]

True. One of the best cars in Soviet times

[@martintotev4508]

Only its like 30 times more off-road caplable

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

Most hunters in my country are preferring NIVA for obvious reasons..

[@JoMiMi_h]

🙌 *SOVIETCHARGERS!* 🙌 *"The USSR was **_T H I C C_** "*

[@Omar-em7rl]

T H I C C

[@LouisSubearth]

@crazymonkeyboom They were okay, not too thick, nor too thin.

[@EverettdaBear]

@@LouisSubearth Other than the ones who starved, right?

[@LouisSubearth]

@@EverettdaBear There were declassified documents stating the average caloric input between the average Soviet and average American were roughly the same. That's a bit at odds with a starving population, isn't it?

[@EverettdaBear]

@@LouisSubearth blatantly false garbage. Communism is cancer.

[@axeldiaz7441]

Nolan dismantling communism at the end of a video is always a nice treat

[@michaelgahler4729]

Min 3:45. Der Moskwich 400 ist keine Kopie vom Opel Kadett. Er wurde auf den gleichen Maschine produziert. Diese wurden in Deutschland in Rüsselsheim abgebaut, nach Moskau geschafft und dort wieder aufgebaut. Er wurde auf den originalen Maschinen gebaut.

[@attila535]

Many people here in Eastern Europe, especially old folks remember these cars fondly, as they were nearly indestructable.

[@mattcannon8467]

People will be digging these out of the ground and driving them home

[@DjDizzy216]

So these heavy-metal box-cars last forever? That’s a shame.

[@Big.W.]

DJ Dizzy They were made in Tank factories, so they’re pretty much armored cars.

[@JakeTurbine]

@@DjDizzy216 Why is that a shame?

[@hobowizard3124]

@@DjDizzy216 heavy ? most of them don't have over 1000 kilos , and the ones that do were the "luxury" ones

[@grantasyska]

The Volga is like the rolls royce of Russian cars, I get super excited when I see one in my home country, but they are pretty rare now

[@bittegibeinennamenan5576]

What about GAZ-13 Chaika or GAZ-M20 Pobeda?

[@wetlettuce4768]

The Chaika was the Rolls Royce of the Soviet Union, Volga is more like a Merc E class.

[@ashkira2]

@@wetlettuce4768 Rolls-Royce analog was Zil, Chaika's 13 and 14 was cheaper version.

[@David-cy5zu]

Alleyup1994USA us car 400 cubic inches 130 horse’s

[@larsnothnick5736]

The Wolga was the Taxi brand in east germany.

[@HoltAircraft]

Something that most people don't know is that a Lada would not only be a 10 year wait, it would also cost you about $150,000

[@tomr6955]

Q: Why Communists Sucked at Making Cars A: Here are several other topics related to Communist cars.

[@peterpeterson4800]

You are really rating that sexy and indestructable Lada too low. And have you heared of the Lada 4x4? Now that is one all-terrain vehicle.

[@Daedalus-BC308]

Even Top Gear liked the 4X4.

[@TheOmegaozzy]

We used to have on back in Russia. A yellow Lada niva, That car would break once a month but we loved it lol

[@LJ-fe8vb]

Niva😍

[@jrutt0722]

@@Daedalus-BC308 im pretty sure the second they said that, it broke down

[@Eko_Kats]

@@jrutt0722 well still repairable with 2 screwdrivers and 3 more tools anywhere it broke

[@Cabron_fiber]

You forgot about Lada Niva! One of the best cars for off-road. Also, you didn’t mention UAZ. They made couple of interesting cars)

[@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907]

This was about the bad cars

[@COEmotion566]

ZAZ!! Запорожець

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

didn't UAZ make military trucks?

[@yehor25]

@@COEmotion566 свiй хлопець.

[@pel0511]

Мне кажется, что Американцы любят унижать наш и без этого неидеальный автопром. Аж хочется сказать что-то типа: "Your Muscle Cars eat too much gas and their suspension is bad!"

[@CaptainCanuck1975]

"What country is this car from?" "It no longer exists." In the early '80s we got a ride in a Lada taxi. There weren't very many Ladas in North America at the time, so it was pretty unusual to see one. All I remember about the ride was the car's bad suspension.

[@nurifidei4056]

They only abolished classes to create another type of classes

[@maratines]

“Mr. Gorbachev, supercharge those cars!” - Ronald Reagan

[@XSpt1]

Best comment ever

[@brethren111]

Njet

[@JavierCR25]

Your comment sir... your comment is pure freaking gold...

[@constantinandro684]

I laughed so hard

[@jameshartley2302]

Lol

[@simondavid6506]

My grandfather told me when I was little, that he ordered a red Lada 1200, and 8 years later he got an orange Skoda 120L. #takeitorwaitanother10years. 😅

[@filipfilip9717]

Where u from?

[@simondavid6506]

@@filipfilip9717 I'm from Hungary.

[@filipfilip9717]

@@simondavid6506 ayyy im from Slovenia

[@garage5125]

he replaced lada by škoda 120? ladas were better in basically everything, škodas had engine in the back, and they sounded like rally car, but except that they didn t have anything to do with fast cars (top speed was supposed to be 150km /h but the speedometer was saying 140-150 when you were doing like 90-100 . they might have better handling than ladas, but that was caused by that fact than they were so weak, people were joking about them than the absolute dream of škoda owners is to spin the weels of skoda on ice:-)) they were constantly cooking the engine, and when you crashed into lada, you were able to fit that škoda 120 into the trunk of the lada, and still had enough space to fit there some luggage... i disagree with this video, but these skodas with engine in the back were really terrible cars.

[@simondavid6506]

@@garage5125 It might be, but the pure fact is that, people were just happy to get a car at that time. 😅

[@karstenwendler8697]

Melkus is built from Wartburg parts. It was possible to produce 100 units, then it became impossible to get Wartburg parts in the GDR. So the production of the RS1000 stopped. After reunification, the RS2000 was produced, which had a chassis from Lotus. However, it was too expensive for Melkus and did not pay off. After only a few units, production was stopped. However, the RS 1000 is still being made in 2024 from old Wartburgs. I live right next to the factory in Dresden and have been inside.

[@Simoxs7]

My first Motorcycle was a GDR one, they’re definitely extremely easy to repair and quite reliable, but the technology was still from the 60s and after I got my BMW GS afterwards I understood that a suspension can actually absorb bumps

[@claudiobizama5603]

Kinda disappointed they didn't mention the best selling export USSR, the VAZ Niva.

[@davidrobinson3148]

@@DanArnets1492 4:35 :You may know VAZ by their export name, Lada...

[@blackcountryme]

I remember the Lada Riva, a pile of crap it was too... Rust included under the vinyl roof at no extra cost.

[@skaltura]

Yeah, Niva i hear is quite excellent little car. Never driven one tho, but for what it is, and for what it is meant for it is outright brilliant.

[@Konformation07]

Well that's because it was actually a good car. Can't mention that one.

[@BangFarang1]

@@davidrobinson3148 The manufacturer name was AvtoVAZ but the marketing name in USSR was Zhiguli. So Zhiguli Niva in local market and Lada Niva abroad.

[@reneheroux2178]

*takes refrigerator and gives it a 30 HP engine, DA THIS IS GÜÜD!*

[@EpilepsyWarning]

LMFAO

[@gloverelaxis]

how fucking stupid are you that you think Russian uses umlauts. they have a completely different alphabet you absolute dunce

[@hohtari1]

This deserves top comment spot. Imagining this in my head made me look like i had an epileptic shock.

[@randomguyonyoutube6738]

@RockabillyFox your life is a r/woosh

[@sieravirs1107]

@@gloverelaxis cough cough east germany

[@user-po8no1xp6e]

Not only they sucked at making automobiles, they sucked basically at everything because of iron curtains and no competition.

[@prieten49]

You say a car is made in East Germany and then say it was one of the "Soviets" only sports cars. It had nothing to do with the Soviet Union.

[@alexb4339]

Ok, Donut, dats fine, but where are those? GAZ - 13 and 14 executive class sedans (only for party members, sure, but they were there) LADA 2121/Niva (heard this one was very popular among farmers abroad USSR) infamous rotary LADA 2101 Late ussr LADA 2108/2109 (up-to-time hatchbacks with FWD) ZIL limousines (super-high class mammoths for elite) UAZ 462/469 (the real russian G-class) Moskvitch 401, 406, GAZ - 24 and 2402 wagon Cmon, guys, there's so much to tell and you shorten it so hard :( Like this so Donut guys make another one!

[@Random-nf7qb]

@j q fuck you

[@JordanShilkoff]

I'd love to learn about all this stuff, Donut. 90 years of alternate car history deserves more than 1 video

[@alexb4339]

@j q likewise, ma boi

[@ghoulbuster1]

he talked about bad cars, not good ones

[@urdaddywingnut7820]

Alex B -- Wow man, it sounds like Nathan needs to turn this into a three- if not 4- part series to cover all you just mentioned, because I surely found this to be one of their more interesting videos 😃

[@TechShowdown]

The Ronald Reagan joke at the start though lmao

[@elemental9039]

Tech Showdown what did it mean .. could u explain please... thx

[@CarlosJose-yw4mj]

Explain pls

[@E46_Lenker]

Carlos José just search Ronald Reagan funny Moments

[@peter-radiantpipes2800]

Tech Showdown it’s worth googling and watching for sure. The American, polish and Russian joke is awesome!

[@samueljackson856]

I literally am going to click off this garbage video to watch Reagan

[@dullahan7677]

Shit, I'd take an early '80s LADA Niva 4x4 any old day of the week, my friend.

[@Soundbrigade]

In Sweden they were very popular. Compared to other 4x4 they were robust and really in for some off-limit driving, all the extras was INCLUDED (winch for instance) and was just half the price of any competitor. My friends had two of them and now regret they sold them.

[@chrischaf]

@4:04 if a 23hp motor taking 55 seconds to propel this car to 60 sounds bad... I might point out that the car my best friend drove in high school was a mid to late 70's ford ltd with a 400 cubic inch v-8, and it took over 20 seconds to make it to 60. lol

[@fredphilips5320]

Lada-Vaz 2101: I'm the most sold car in the USSR. Fiat 124: *That's me.*

[@neilevans2507]

Fiat was a communist company run by a communist city. It’s solidarity not a copy.

[@nomad27]

My grand-dad finally got a permit to purchase a car after many years of waiting. When he was finally allowed to go get his car from the car lot, it was sitting in the middle, blocked behind all kinds of broken or extremely old cars. He was told he can wait few months or get one of the broken ones right now, spending the permit. This was a hint to get the cash out and start paying the local guys. After a small fortune and few bottles of vodka changed hands, the blocking cars were moved out of the way, only to reveal "his" car didn't have wheels. "All yours" they said. Some time and quite a lot of cash later, he was driving his very own car. He kept that car for more than 25 years, maintaining it by himself. Then, after immigrating to Israel, he had the choice of either owning a car or receiving state "pension". Can't have both, they said. If you own a car, you're doing well enough to get by on your own. So he had to avoid owing one. Governmental laws are shit. Stay away from socialism, kids!

[@nomad27]

@Theodore Marakas Not actually called "Mafia" though.. I think "Putinism" is the word you are looking for.

[@nomad27]

@Theodore Marakas Yep.

[@satchelsatchel]

So, during the process of "a small fortune and few bottles of vodka" changing hands, and the blocking cars being moved out of the way, your grandfather never noticed that the car didn't have wheels? And those other men moved "all kinds of broken or extremely old cars" even when they knew that they were clearing a path for a car which could not move? Cool story, bro.

[@nomad27]

@@satchelsatchel (Feeding the troll) Your first comment is getting into too much detail. It is possible that he didn't see the wheels. Or perhaps he did see the missing wheels but decided he'll deal with that later on, or tow the car without them. Is it THAT important to you? I wish I could ask him. I can't. Your second comment - The point in this kind of behavior is to get some money on top of their very low salary. So in this regard getting payed to clear a path to a car which cannot move is better than clearing a path to a car that CAN move :)

[@KaitouKaiju]

Sounds like a corruption problem not a communism problem (USSR was not socialist). The same sort of ripoff bribery happens in capitalist countries too. Where do you think lemon laws came from?

[@SztirlitzB]

I think it is very important to mention, that first massive automotive plant “GAZ” was built and organised with the help of Ford. Also GAZ M1 was a licensed copy of some 20s-30s Ford model

[@ultrapopcorn6287]

As a 2 21063 vaz owner i can say they are the best cars to buy so far. Easy to work on, super fun to drive and aftermarket parts are cheap.

[@DRAINTVofficial]

Skoda cars such as the MB1000 and Favorit where unique cars made in czsk during communism. those cars were really efficient and reliable for its time

[@Piotr94L]

As we were laughing in Poland " tysiąc Małych Błędów" 1000 small issues. But Czech rally cars like 130RS, 160RS MTX or 200RS were Eastern Block Porsches.

[@niktodt1]

Exactly! Here in Slovakia there were dozens of them on the street like 10 years ago. Very nice cars for their time.

[@penzlic]

not to mention their rally victories in class all over Europe

[@DRAINTVofficial]

TATRA Trucks!

[@MorbidEmpireRD]

Sorry, but Skoda Favorit was not a good car. My dad had one 20 years ago and it was terrible. Yeah, it was easy to fix. But what's the point if you have to fix it every week. And for it's 1.3l petrol engine, it was very very thirsty.

[@johnnywatkins5617]

I own a 1975 Lada 2101 imported to the US from Ukraine. They were definitely made to be simple and easily repairable. The owners manual has detailed pictures of rebuilding the engine, although I can’t read Russian.

[@uis246]

Right to Repair, soviet edition

[@ArcaneCossack]

I'm missing a left leg and I was confused for a moment until I remembered automatic transmissions weren't common in Soviet Russia. I have no idea how I'd drive manual. If you ever need to do a video with someone with a prosthetic to test some sort of driving gimmick and I'm in the state, hit me up!

[@JakobVarming]

9:42 The flying head was a nice feature!

[@definitelyjustcj4148]

0:47 it’s actually the UNION of Soviet Socialist Republics not United

[@EdmontonRails]

Should be the enslaved peoples under the soviet union.

[@justsomeofmyfavs]

@Judson Joist No, it doesn't. The word "soviet" means "council" or "committee" (in this specific context, because it also means "advice").

[@einekartoffel3531]

Always knew unions were evil

[@justsomeofmyfavs]

@Judson Joist No, it's more like "Union of Councils". What "USSR" literally means is "Union of Council-based Socialist Republics". A revolutionary "council" was an assembly of workers or peasants purporting to represent their local community/city/region and deciding on policies within it. Kind of like legislative and executive power all rolled into one (and rarely elected in today's sense, of course). In early days of the revolution, these councils were the ruling power. Hence the expression "Vlast' sovietov" i. e. "rule of councils". A bad idea, of course - legislature and execution should be separated to avoid corruption of the former by the latter.

[@honkhonk8009]

translation

[@F1-Person]

The Background music.. Too familiar. *iissssss B O R I S*

[@ihategreengr4203]

Im subscribet to him lol

[@aperson-wh7kl]

“Hey buddy, still alive?”

[@LifeofBoris]

I have been summoned

[@F1-Person]

@@LifeofBoris HOLY CRAP IT'S THE SLAV KING

[@laksamanasuhendra5868]

@@LifeofBoris boris?

[@TrashQueenRoyale]

My dad had a Lada! He only scrapped it because of rust and erosion but it was comfy and drove like a champ!

[@dand7422]

Though Czech in 1960s to 1990s has a good luxury car named Tatra T603 and T613 it has a V8 air cooled engine and used as a government vehicle

[@ravenouself4181]

That map of the USSR with Finland but without the Baltics

[@agastyanadadhur9485]

and no tajikistan, kyrgyzstan, and turkmenistan

[@blyaticon8190]

I still see Trabants from the 70s driving in Germany, they might not be fast but reliable af

[@bleuebrade3655]

They're super polluting tho, so you probably won't see them for much longer

[@DutchDiederik]

Sure. Over engineered, super simple technology is reliable by design. That's why African dictators are still driving around in Mercedeses from the 1970s.

[@skdKitsune]

@@DutchDiederik A trabant is anything but over engineered... And mercedes is just quality itself. Benz invented the damn car

[@DutchDiederik]

@@skdKitsune I phrased that sentence poorly. The over-engineered part referred to Mercedes, the simple technology referred to the Trabant. Mercs from the 1970s are indestructible. I don't think they are as reliable today as they once were.

[@skdKitsune]

@@DutchDiederik Okay that I can agree with. But nowadays cars are not made to be reliable. Sad truth is they just want you to buy a new car

[@JanBinnendijk]

I miss one car.. one that absolutely doesn't suck.. the Lada 2121 "NIVA" which is in my opinion one of the best 4x4's around.. i'd love to have one.. i once saw one negiciating rough terrain, including some water.. i saw the water rise inside the car when driven through water, but then again, when back out of the water.. the water flushed out of the car just as quickly, that's one way to deal with that "problem" as it saves a lot of seals on all kinds of places..

[@Puzzlers100]

You missed my favoite - Tatra T603. They were V8, rear-engine 4 door saloons designed in czechia and were generally only for government officials. I love the style and don't know of any car that looks quite like it.

[@Sh0Q_]

We may laugh now but these cars would run with a shovel full of gravel in them instead of motor oil

[@TheMuro22]

They even did. That's really the quality of soviet oil

[@5dancingisraelis535]

Mmm gravel and motor oil.. love that communist food

[@NerdyCatCoffeeee]

That is true. Our cars can even run on wood, or coal. We can do anything.

[@kombrug]

@@NerdyCatCoffeeee К сожалению можем делать что угодно кроме инфраструктуры

[@DanE-ew1yt]

@@NerdyCatCoffeeee anything except make a good car.

[@playboicarti881]

9:43 my man literally got decapitated in a car wreck 😂

[@robloxpathe9296]

One like, one respect for the crash dummy

[@beckhanra]

Bah, that was in the 60's. Those crash tests weren't about safety back then, they were about making the most spectacular decapitation.

[@dimarews]

@@beckhanra this was a proto-moskvich crash test, which shown that the safety was inefficient; later they improved that shit and it passed the tests.

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

I'm pretty sure that many people driving the same vehicle had the same fate so RIP we shouldn't make fun.

[@budlewis721]

How do you get figuratively decapitated in a car wreck? Lose your mind? Get amnesia?

[@troyc4841]

Ladas are near bulletproof, not safe in a crash, but the engines are extremely tough. Garage 54 taught me this.

[@WorivpuqloDMogh]

Ever seen a Lada? That thing is built like a tank, compared to the car its based on, which is a fiat