Fiparam

[Kacsaszezon]

But if nobody is allowed to own a car there, for who is it built?

[LuapIbiza]

Productioncapacity : 10.000 per year.

Real production : about 350 per year.

[revolution1917oct]

FIAT sold right for producing this car in the DPRK.Let's wish them good luck!This country must survive!DPRK will overcome!

[sekyunseung]

But do you not find any irony in the fact that a communist nation requires a capitalist enterprise to keep it alive?

[dage0933]

是口哨牌汽车

[songun88]

In fact, these a cars from italy. They are FIAT PALIO.

[CommunistHunter]

retards..it is NOT PRONOUNCED FIPARAM. It is HEE PA RAM

but the H is pronounced very fast.

[liusinger]

i felt so scared watching this

[socalazn168]

Let's hope these N.Korean cars can run better than Hyundai or Kia.

[runescapeaddict4life]

lol it's named after a song in the background you can hear it playing cool

[Bakomhuset]

Haha the Trabant of the 2000:s!

[Depotmaster]

Nobody can produce a non-profit car because the country needs liquidity to import or smuggle goods. I bet in the end the country will have the same soft landing as China had. The problem is that they are dozens of years behind. It will take 20 years till 5% of the people will have access to internet, and the censorship will still be very strinct. I sympathize with this country somehow.

[Depotmaster]

Its creepy, you don't find many useful information on google about the car and the factory. They say the production is not run for profit, and you also could not simply "buy" the car on the common way. But what else? Do they want to use the cars as public goods for the elite members? I heared foreigners in the DPRK could also acquire the car, and that maybe they want to export it to countries around. But you don't hear anything new about this thing.

[gah123gah]

I've heard the government owns over 7000 top of the line Mercedes, so I don't think they're for the elite. Although if by "elite" you mean those fortunate enough to live in pyongyang, rather than a rural village, then perhaps it might be for *some* of them.

Personally I suspect this is either an experiment, or it's done out of national pride while being as much of a farce as their pristinely kept but empty roads.

Don't take me for an expert though. I'm just interested.

[InuyashaFan500]

For a North Korean car. That Hwiparam car looks pretty nice!

I wonder how good they really are.

[wenjinweb]

Hmmm, looks old, will Singapore sell this?

[joefernwright]

It seems to be marketed only within North Korea, you'll find a billboard in NK googling for it.

I guess a different form of spelling is 'Huiparam' or 'Hwiparam' which interestingly translates into 'pipe'.

Market price is 8.000 - 10.000 USD.

But as said before I really liked the filmmaking style.

I guess at some point I will make a sequence by seqeunce list to decode the marvellous structure.

BEST JF

[AspergiaKidd]

His head is actually hiding behind a yellow pole-type thing, it's just ducked down. Perhaps the regime doesn't want to know them individually.

[McHrozni]

Nah, I imagine they just don't really care about showing a mechanic. Hard to blame them in this regard, especially with al the other shit they have on their heads :)

[troublemaker1973]

This is the nearest that DPRK television has ever got to boradcasting a commercial (I think).

[AWV34]

I want one of those! And I want the uncongested highway systems they have. Life is great in DPRK!

[ahbearbear]

that's a copycat of a fiat model!!!

[joefernwright]

Well, it is actually not a copycat but a joint venture with Fiat. The model is the ill-fated Fiat Palio.

Watching the commercial you can notice the FIAT logo on the front of the car. My favorite image comes at 1:07, I'd call it the headless mechanic. The factory couldn't be called exactly 'buzzing' either. But I like the serene look of the commercial with all the attention given to details as the ceiling light (as demonstrated it can be turned on and off).