Still my favourite Trabant-related video ever! With the lively jazz-swing music and optimistic tone, it perfectly captivates the mood of the era it was made in... it shows everything that you could love this little car for! :)

@senseofstile

5 жыл бұрын

The car might not be top notch but, the musicians are outstanding?

@tonykirchner5418

5 жыл бұрын

I've been trying for years to find the music on here.

@quas392

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonykirchner5418 I have a feeling the music is by Gunther Horig and the Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker, same guys to do the soundtrack in the DEFA production video, though I'm not sure what the songs are themselves.

Unbelievable! I don't know where this was found, but great to see it here. Such a piece of history, and in English too. Thanks!

Toller Film, besonders die Motorsport-Szenen!

It's interesting that the narrator speaks English with a noticeable German accent, leaves the factory name completely in German (not that they'd translate it fully, which would be something like "Saxon Ring Automobile Works Public Trust" but at least say "vee ee bee" instead of "fow eh bay") and calls the car "Trabant six hundred one" when "six oh one" would be how an English speaker would more likely read it.

@DaveWatts_ejectamenta

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like the Lufthansa man, "Zerz, s'no betta vay zu fly"

@mauricevanmourik1982

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveWatts_ejectamenta An "extwa" (hycomat scene) , hilarious 😛

@robfriedrich2822

Жыл бұрын

The East Germans couldn't travel. What they learned was in the best case from some British communists who lived in East Germany.

@vitameat

7 ай бұрын

Elmer Fudd taught him English...

The accent is gold VE MAKE THE GERMAN PRODUCKT TRABANT PLASTIC EAST GERMAN YOU CAN RELY ON. ROBUST, POAWERFÚL, LIEVLI STABEL KOANERING.

@vitameat

6 жыл бұрын

Or Elmer Fudd defected to the DDR and became a translator...

@nlpnt

3 жыл бұрын

@@vitameat Like all Toons, Elmer drove Chevys bought from Felix the Cat's dealership in LA...

haben den wirklich ein paar Engländer gekauft?

@neilfoster814

Ай бұрын

Yes! I have a 1988 Trabant P601 Kombi! In the UK now they are a cult car!

How come this was even made in English? Did they sell them abroad and/or outside of the eastern bloc? I’m so curious

@mannequinfukr

4 жыл бұрын

If i remember right there was some western european countries that got them too

@95thFoot

4 жыл бұрын

They were using English to sell to Scandinavian countries, all of which use English (formerly German) as their second language.

@uzaiyaro

4 жыл бұрын

@@95thFoot oh, that's super interesting! Europe as a whole is not quite my strong suit, nor st most of the mainland care. It's small British cats from the 50s or bust, for me! Somewhat specific, I know! Thank you for teaching me something I didn't know! I guess my next question would be how many were sold? I heard that the Wartburg sold modestly better in the west, despite being even more impossible for any of the locals to ever obtain one unless your employer happened to be the Stasi. Thanks again, and cheers from Australia!

@nlpnt

3 жыл бұрын

@@95thFoot Makes sense, I've never seen one with Federalized lighting or with right-hand drive.

@user-wh2sm6bt9q

3 жыл бұрын

@@uzaiyaro I'm from Bulgaria. Here every ordinary citizen could buy a Wartburg. The problem is that you sign up and wait for it to be delivered. In the socialist countries with planned economies, there was a shortage of consumer goods.

I WISHD ID HAD 3 601S 2 RED ONES AND 1 GREEN

I can rely on many things.... Compared with Zaporojes

bmw 2002 @ 0:15 ?

@D091281

6 жыл бұрын

It was an international rallye.

@-M-511

3 жыл бұрын

@@D091281ja aber dann ist das kein film aus den 70ern

@-M-511

3 жыл бұрын

@Waldemar Batura 125p but than it is not a movie out of the 70s

wo hätte man das Gemisch herbekommen. Gabs glaub ich nicht bei uns an der Tankstelle

@konradfalkner3198

2 жыл бұрын

Kann man selber mischen 🙄😒

@robfriedrich2822

Жыл бұрын

In der DDR gab es Säulen, an denen man Gemisch bekam und auch je nach Modell es einstellen konnte.

2:22

@supertrinigamer

6 жыл бұрын

5:44 trabant racing

PRIMA

0:15 and 4:19 West German cars

@pauul-lukaskipping1056

5 жыл бұрын

In my opinion you can see an skoda 1000mb at 0:15 not a west German car

@robfriedrich2822

Жыл бұрын

@@pauul-lukaskipping1056 But Skoda was more west, than an outdated car, produced with minor modification from the early 1960's till 1990.

The Trabant 601 a piece of crap is gone.

@uzaiyaro

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but it's also a piece of history regardless of how good it isn't.