Trabant Car - Factory Zwickau East Germany

[alexdesalm]

...so it is shit...

[doncoro]

the lowest tech ever!

[LoveSwedishGirls]

They look like they are building Trabant in a home garage

[greenseal]

Crap produktion owned and influenced by russians. Meanwhile in west Germany they where building some of the best cars ever.

I actually feel sorry for the Germans who had to live 50+ years in a sovjet regime after WW2.

[Geenimetsuri]

At least you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars for fixing minor things like in western cars.

Think about it, you can just hammer the dent back yourself :-)

[cozmium]

Nothing like the sound of a roaring.... whatever... sparking in to life at the end there

[heathirving]

3:25 ahhh fuck it.....

[thekapitalistis]

1:46 Fucking SLAM!

[driverx241]

I'd laugh, but 70s-80s GM was pretty much exactly like this.

[algasparn]

Mario! -> 1:34

[lxPhilxl]

Hand crafted to perfection!

[cristian39es]

hahaha

[sfenodonte]

Wiederholung, die DDR hatte eine starke Richtung des Schauspielers und Einlassenumdrehung.

[MrWomojo]

@sfenodonte sorry, no one here speaks babelfish

[thefatdic]

man these cars are pieces of shit

[MichuNeo]

We're laughing but the truth is that Trabants could be used for like 20 years and all of these new electronic toys (I can't say "cars") are breaking down all the time and without computer we can't do anything but go to specialized engineers... an pay a lot of cash ;)

[koaron96]

1:28 bad tailights

[Andreee908]

@koaron96

No, its just the parking-light, put on with the blinker, for parking in the dark ... .

[Rallyegucker]

hehehe,heute fassen sie die Mistkarren nur noch mit handschuhen an,und damals gings nochmal mit dem Hammer und Fußtritten drüber :-).

Ach der gute Trabi,der hielt noch was aus,nicht wie die Kisten von heute.

[syndicate711]

Sehr liebevoll. ;o)

[heffeque]

Minute 3:00 : best moment EVER!

[hekasoram]

@heffeque you meant 03:23

[yyoU8s]

Funny and interesing video.

Quality control changed very much...

[fenderosa]

Is it a joke?

[AffigesEtwas]

In this City is a 100 year atomoblie making tradition. it started with Horch and Audi and after WW2 the City was in the east secter and they now builded the Trabant. The engineers constructed newer better cars but the goverment did not allow to build them because they said the Trabant is good enough for the people. After the Reunification VW Golf and Passat and the chassis for Bently and VW Pheaton are manufactured there.

[autospezi]

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[mooony2009]

i wonder what the freinds at Mercedes think when they see this(:

[orsadam]

Mullet:D

[SteHex003]

The same people making BMW's and VW's now... that is scary..

[tuntitommosille]

Tuo ukko on 10x tehokkaampi kuin laiskat ahtaajaläskiperseet ja silti se ei enää raksaa noita trabantteja. Katsokaa tarkaan suomalaiset paskaduunarit, teidän tulevaisuus lepää sossun varassa, jolla ei ole tulevaisuudessa varaa maksaa työttömyyskorvauksia.

[StudFI]

:D and the different between this and todays Chinese Volvo is... :D

[malbert34]

seriously, if communist germany was this bad in 1989, i don't wanna think what shit north korea, china or africa was building at the same time.

[felna]

you can laugh as much as you want, but this is one of most successful cars ever made

[toresbe]

@felna There were made a lot of them because there WAS NO ALTERNATIVE.

It was a nice car in the late fifties - even the early sixties - but then nobody changed anything until 1990!

[TuhtiPeura100]

Made by Hand -and Feet.

[040679kanjavi]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

[coldhandshake]

I get the impression these cars fall apart.

[discocreator76]

yep, just like west german cars

[somberlight]

they did, but the sweet part was that you could mend them with like sturdy wires, bubblegum and ventilation tape

[ilkkavu]

was this music also been played in the factories?

[polterbungy]

Kein Wunder, daß man 10 Jahre auf die Karre warten mußte. Allein die Endabnahme dauert ewig lang

[wtfzsolt]

a szakramentumát..... :D

[censor48]

they do the same when making ford f-150 1998

[uzaiyaro]

@censor48 And they're just as crude as the Trabant, so it's really no surprise.

[pvg100]

Like Jeremy 'Jezza' Clarkson says: "Where are my hammers" xD

[torque234]

at 1:28 one of the brakelights are broken and it hasn't even left the factory

[JFRMax]

@torque234 are your sure? i think the parking light is on, there it is normal, that only the left back and front light are on. or can you see anyone who presses the break???

[JFRMax]

@torque234 Are your shure???? I think the parking light is on, there it is normal, that only the left lights are on! Or can you see anoybody who is pressing the break?????? please first drive a Trabant before posting comments like this next time!

[arospeed169]

@torque234 they were checking it before it leaved, most probably , it was corrected

[MrMichalsky]

@torque234 Daily life in the eastern bloc;)

[Ismaak5]

nothing like a good banging, to straighten things

[radlen44]

:D omg

[jurkanman]

Oh my God... :))))

[eddielung31]

handicraft, good

[milxl]

when nobody cares !!!!

[Wandinha88]

lol

[Scherbenkacks]

well, the technology was outdated. You think it was any different in the 50 and 60ies in the western states?

At least the people had a decent work place, and they built a car that got you from A to B.

It was a "Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat", not a "Konsumentenstaat".

[Phunker1]

na super, du musstest die Scheisskarre warscheinlich ja nicht fahren...

[Scherbenkacks]

musste ich wirklich nicht.

Es gab damals schon bessere Autos, und verglichen mit dem was man heute so bekommt, ist ein Trabant natürlich Mist.

Aber man muss gleiches mit gleichem vergleichen, die Autos waren vor 40 oder 50 Jahren halt nicht so entwickelt.

[cismok]

Is that a show? How customers would react after seeing this?

[Mos6502]

It was actually the typical way to build a car in the 60s when the Trabant was designed. Citroen 2cvs were still built this way in the 90s, and the same for VW beetles, and the old British Mini.

When a documentary was made about the 2cv in the late 80s - Citroen forbid camera crews from filming the factory because they didn't want potential customers to see this kind of thing!

[penner08252]

jetzt weis ich auch warum man teilweise 18 jahre auf sein auto gewartet hatt bei dem arbeitstempo xDxDxD

[diespi83]

I really liked the music. Where can I find those tunes?

[fujioko]

Ha! @ 3.22 the communist worker totally give up on the little Tribant. It appears that no amount of kicking and slamming will make the car perfect. Watch closely @ 3.50 the hood latch fails when the car enters the water spray test area. Government Motors (GM) will offer this type of car when Obama totally kills our economy. Something to look forward too?

[technorobert]

aber auch bei AUDI und VW werden die Fahrzeuge mit einem Hammer getrimmt damit die spaltmasse stimmen.

[pippobl]

Schönes Auto ;)))

tschüß aus Italien

[Bidone1967]

Schönes Video, anbei ein Video mit einem Renntrabbi im Einsatz.

VG und 5*

Bidone

[Shukria123]

Long live Erich Honecker and the SED!

[OniXV250]

the car is built entirely with a hammer...nice

[Coucerbaum]

wie geil!!!

[auschwitzu]

east german wunderwaffe

[roythearcher]

Vorsprung durch technik...... NOT!

PDI= hit it with a hammer if the doors dont close correctly!..........pure class!

[manlyday]

Is it a mass production? Will the customer angry with them? The rear light does work even on the assembly line.

[smorinjo]

those fine adjustments...

[Raune88]

HAHA! Trabi hat Dellen schon ab Werk:D 0:48

[pvtjoker90]

das war cool

[madmanmapper]

I think I speak for all of us when I say: mein kampf. lol but I still want to buy a Trabant just because.

[Patricstone]

idiot shit

[donkristian777]

trabbi for life!!!

[gusomusic]

zu geil!

[somersetdc]

My gosh, this is funny.

[CorrectTV]

was nicht passt, wird eben passend gemacht

[grizeldaaa]

nice mullet :x

[h4xx0rnr1]

beautiful engineering at the top level! i bet this is how they do with beemrs nowadays^^

[voidforpurpose]

Beat it until it works.

[dccwoh]

This is the perfect way to build a car!!

[cupcu]

FUCK YOU

[piancu]

You don't have an intelligent reply therefore you are resorting to swearing. It's just the truth, this car polluted as much as a lawn mower, which polutes much, much more than a modern car. I mean, come on, what car at the time was using petrol mixed with oil??

[cupcu]

Dont you know ??

In DDR theyre was no 4 Stroke Engines because the BRD dont wanna work with DDR and Volkswagen dont want give the 1.1 Engine from the Polo.

The 2 STroke was a not expensive Engine and you repair him in your kitchen.

[armin3773]

Wartburg was built from 1988 with the 1.1. Polo engine.

[TrabantToni]

den Wartburg gab es ab 1988 einen 1.3er Motor.. und nein, das war kein VW motor sondern nur der Lizensbau.. was hier manche für sachen in die welt setzen..

[armin3773]

Achso, der Polo Motor ist kein VW-Motor? Mit den 1,3l hast recht, aber den 1,1er hat dafür der Trabant zum Schluß bekommen. Unglaublich was manche hier

1. für Sachen in die Welt setzen.

2. rechtschreibschwach sind.

3. für ein benehmen an den Tag legen

[TrabantToni]

Googel mal nach dem Wort "Lizensbau"..

[beutelkompost]

did you mean "Lizenzbau"

[TrabantToni]

IDIOT!

[armin3773]

OK, see your logic: The Trabant is almost gone, so in your logic global warming has been set to an end. Let's buy some SUVs their exhaust ist almost invisible, like CO2 is. If a gas is invisible, it cannot blamed for global warming.

Muhaha!

[exeuroweenie]

Oh god they had mullet hairstyles in the GDR? And I thought insidious American imperialism and western decadence were merely catchphrases.

[vipertruck05]

I would really like to have one, go trabi go

[gergely007]

This is a precision final tuning compared to the owners whoes repair theyself this cars at home!

[AdrianoFactory]

not your serius what they do, ore?

LOL

[jamiebridges]

Love the way he kicks it to get the bonnet to fit. That's how I get mine to fit, an the doors... Boot... Windows... seats... LOL.

TOP car !

[EdmDude]

If you put a DOHC 8 valve 2 cylinder engine in there, you would have what? 80HP? :)

That would make it go!

[cristian39es]

hahahhahaha

[uzaiyaro]

I love how nothing quite fits on those cars.

[Glynardo]

Hardcore porn for Trabi lovers :-)

[jamiebridges]

These guys are god's amongst men.

[DariusNSX]

I worked in Uk's car industry. Compare with some cases that I saw there, this video is still hi-tech approach :-) So don't think it is only trabant made that way, most of your cars comes to you same way, especially from usa and europe. Only japanesse are really better in building quality these days

[michelinov]

trabant forever !!!!

[mrspivvy]

no wonder there was a massive waiting list for trabants- look how labour intensive they are to make!!

[JollyRoger1969]

-borat voice- GREAT SUCCESS

[TheSnoopySnoop]

PIMP MY TRABANT :)))

[paulpembroke]

Long live Duroplast !

[lituan0]

high quality products :)))))))))

[lankaat]

Its a nightmare dude.

[masterlee123]

The Ford Pinto was one of Ford worst cars. You can not compare this shit to a Ford Pinto. Pinto got class, and better made.

[MichaelMeier79]

Die haben sich richtig Mühe gegeben mit den Autos. Und das 15 Jahre lang! Aber gutes Video!

[Thinsid]

Amazing film,is it real or a spoof???

[masterlee123]

I think i'll drive a Yugo.

[12valvepower1]

fiat 126 that is a yugo.

[masterlee123]

Hay what can you say, those cars are hand made. costs, $100,000,000 dallors.

[12valvepower1]

brand. ever heard of a ford pinto

[lankaat]

Do u mean the whole factory???

[brandweeremmeloord]

this sucks,fuck it what a (*********) car

fuck your mother

[Deutscheschafer]

Great - I like it

[12valvepower1]

goto hell. the communists could haev crushed us if they wanted.

[alfajock]

that's incredible! Great video!

Has somebody more "episodes"?