Who the hell is Wildman

@@markedmanmist fucking samsung keyboard thats who

@@markedmanmist the co creator of the modern top gear and later grand tour format along with clarkson

He presented the 1977 TG I think for one year(2 series)

That's pretty much correct.

Sounds like Richard Hamond to me and a mix of James May

Yeah, I grew up to top gear. A Comforting bit of humanity through the ole black and white ten Ton Telly box I used to have in the bedroom... There was this one episode I remember from when I was 11 Years old, and couldn't find again where I remember Clarkson doing a piece on cold war era cars, with a three wheeled Car with a Leather body, and he said atleast they were reliable, because they either worked and got you there or you froze to death if they broke down and stranded you. Turns out I just had to use the right words I didn't think to use last time I searched, namely "Top gear cold war cars" Rather than What I used to search for, like "Soviet, Russian ECT" Funny to see this so many years later and see it wasn't Clarkson doing the piece but Andy Wilman, and the whole body being Vinyl over a steel frame, though it does look like leather which is why I remembered it being a Leather car!

I couldn't agree more. If only he would have served steak that time...

Bothe Clarkson and Wilman have been close friends ever since their school days, so there you are then

Luis Garcia r/woosh

@@dandagames6030 r/whoosh to you, op was being sarcastic

And tatra still exists it just make trucks now

yeah in the 90s they were worthless because in former communist countries people wanted modern cars and these old cars were sold on for basically nothing

Almost all of them are now cult classics. The spirit in these cars passes to the young people and their fans are increasing day by day. Servers were good at lying as usual.

@@TSL73 actually, I was the same idea but that was not true. They copied one particular thing but had their designs way before Tatra V570 was created. In 1928 they had small peoples car from Josef Ganz (but Hitler didnt want to support jewish inventors) so later they carried on with Porsche Type 12 in 1931. Even Mercedes had 130H model that was a small car but not peoples I suppose. The 1934 Mercedes 150H Sport Limousine had extreme resemblence to the VW. Then later after czechoslovakian takeover they took the blueprints - but they were accused from 3 points which only 1 they actually stole. On the other hand - all Tatra aerodynamic design came from german Zeppelin. Their design of Tatra T77 was kinda copy of John Tjaarda design from 1931. He didnt have any luck with US investors and no one bought his design. Until 1936 when it was re-developed into Lincoln Zephyr

These cars were the Nomenclatura's (Communist feudal overlords) joke against the people of the USSR and it's Communist empire. A globalist social experiment.

@@Isochest So, Russia was always an Oligarchy. It went through a series of rebrandings.

You can by a Volga for like 3k. Moskvich 2140 costs 3-10k

also contains imperial french music

I saw no USSR cars. Tatra, Zastava, Trabi are all from other Warszawa pact countries

Even now Skoda is not exported to Canada because of American export laws. Our VW's are assembled in Mexico, but Mexicans don't have a work-culture quality comparable to Germans, so the cars end up as shit (even though components arew delivered from Germany). But US does not allow us Canadians to import Skodas, even though we know they are cheaper and better than VW!

So the velorex is like the british invacar, we gave them to disabled people

It was most certainly NOT made for handicapped people. It was made for farmers. @@ambivalentonion2620

1968 603

those tatra 603s cost a fortune in todays world

@AlexGRFan97 let us know when that is done.

@AlexGRFan97 well i am glad you are preserving history youtube is good for that, where normal people can preserve history that others won't touch or have forgotten about summed up best in this tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/KZfaq

@AlexGRFan97 that’s amazing! Did you have a chance to post it?

basically any ZIL limousine car would get you starting somewhere at 500k to 1,2k since each piece was driven by a high ranked soviet person.

Tatra had an air-cooled V8, not a V6.

It's one of the best cars ever built in czech

Vaz 2105 (and so on) are really good cars Also the Warszawa is excellent car.

It was based on a 30 year old Packard automatic transmission that was well past obsolete by the late 80s but hey.

@@MrWolfSnack Chaika was first designed and built in 1950s when Packard was brand new, not 30 years old.

Yeah, well British Layland was also run by the British Government. Lesson: Governments don't know how to run industries (any industry), and should leave that to the private sector. The thing about the private sector is that it MUST serve its customers. Government only serves itself, and almost never the customers.

Yeah but British Leyland was de facto communist. Also they were seen as equally bad in the west as the cars from the Eastern Bloc. Communist cars were build for conditions and a philosophy that didn’t exist in the west. I saw many eastern bloc cars when I was growing up in the 80s, now they are very rare cars in the UK.

Also British Leyland was practically a 16 year long civil in the British car industry between Management and workers going out on strike, so the awful cars were an inevitable result. This and the rise in foreign imports mainly from Germany and Japan are why only 4 of the 17 brands that made up BL currently exist.

Yeah, so you can roll it over going in reverse instead.

@@Metal-Possum Also it has centre of gravity much lower...

@@Metal-Possum You don't mess around with a Velorex in reverse. One little-known feature is that due to the engine and gearbox coming from a Jawa motorbike, they fitted it with a reverse gear that engages with all of the forward gears, not just first. So you can actually shift all of the gears in reverse, and a Velorex driving in reverse can beat a Porsche 911 driving in reverse.

Indeed, that was what he was relating to. But for example in czech (and we use kaput for broken too in spoken language), it also means "kapota", which is another expression for the bonnet.

@@AlejjSi I'm from Czechia and I've never heard anyone use the word 'kaput' for a car hood. But I can confirm that it means 'dead' or 'broken'.

@@martinhroch344 I did a lot when I was a small child, my granddad used it. I live near Mělník, which back in the days of the 30s and 40s was close to the Sudetenland and then the Third Reich, soprobably a fair amount of Germans in here.

@@AlejjSi Now I get it.

kapota in Slovak is car hood

And not Russian - they're Czech.

Definitely obtain Tatra. Unique design, unique V8 air cooled engine, appearance of a limousine.

Well, they last long, very long.

Why? It's slow, uneficent, loud, uncomfortable and didn't even have seatbelts until the late 80s. It was awful. A Moskvich 412 is superior in every way possible to the Trabant. Many Germans (including me) agree that the Trabant is awful.

@@WarCrimeGaming Idk, I just like the little simple engine, The simple design. And it's all around a nice little car if you maintain it well enough.

@@WarCrimeGaming Can you reasonably explain why the Trabant sucks?

@@woolly3603 Never believe the idiots who claim that the Trabant is a bad car, I hope you get the Trabanta of your dreams. In fact, they are of good quality, noiseless, smoke-free, fast enough and comfortable. But I saw 3 very smooth cars that are in very good condition and are hard to find completely refurbished. They were sold for more than 20,000 Euros. I think it's a car that deserves the best.

I wouldn't want to daily a trabant but I would drive it for the novelty

Can't break when there is nothing to break

In what country do they still drive lada's?

@@viktorshevchenko3888 Seen em throughout the CIS and some in Eastern Europe

These depressing communist cars are certainly reliable and are still driving in large numbers, but GOD, are they underdeveloped and slow. These Communist cars are good in tougher lands but terrible on streets.

@@WarCrimeGaming If You compare them to western cars of the same epoche, they are not worse. Only that the western cars were further developed, while the eastern ones were produced unchanged for decades.

@@WarCrimeGaming So what you're saying is that you've never driven, or even taken a ride, in a Tatra. Because it's anything but underdeveloped and slow.

Why ?

A westerner talking about the USSR. Love that

Yeeaaah, boy!

Dzis is a Rushian seagull, Russian seagulls eat bears! :D

The travelling comfort likes a seagull, because it like flying on the road. 🙂

GAZ Chaika

FSO Polonez, a depressing, underdeveloped and terrible car, yet very far away from being the worst...

@@WarCrimeGaming Where are u from ?

@@SillyUwUBilly Germany.

@@WarCrimeGaming Then why do u have Romanian communist dictator as prof. pic. ? Just asking tho .

@@SillyUwUBilly Well, I think the picture fits perfectly for a PFP.

They talked about European Communist cars

@@WarCrimeGaming oh..

@@alpzepta Still, good that you mentioned the Chinese ones

@@alpzepta don't forget saic

That's true These depressing communist cars are still driving in large quantities.

@@WarCrimeGaming how are they depressing?

@@abbanta3002 Everytime I see a Trabant, Oltic or Polonez, it reminds me of the failure of the communist regimes in Europe, except Yugoslavia, which wasn't bad. These cars tell more than a thousand words about the communist Regimes in Eastern Europe (expect Yugoslavia and maybe Czechoslovakia), where the people had problems buying better cars or were forced to have these awful cars. Not just that, but in some of these the people barely even could afford basic things like food, electricity or water. In fact, the damage is still visible in Albania, Romania, parts of East Germany and Poland.

@@WarCrimeGaming These cars were good; what r u on about? XD.. USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia were great. i can tell that You know nothing about communism in Eastern European

@@abbanta3002 "These cars were great". What? The Trabant had a 2 stroke motorcycle engine, uneficent, was slow, sluggish, uncomfortable and didn't even have seatbelts. The FSO Polonez estate didn't even have back seats that could be folded up DESPITE being an estate. It also was rusty, slow and just awful. An dthe Olctit was like a Austin 3 - Litre awful in every way. Most of the communist continues were awful to live in. My Grandfather lived in East Germany back then and he constantly said that it was "awful or" hell in place".

This is a cell for suicides. Once in accident, the driver and passengers have poor chances to survive. Small weak engine with huge consumption and noise level with acceleration like in a lorry. Lada is a sort of a vehicle, you don't fell sorry, when something happens with it.

Фан факт: в предложку это кинул я

*worse

It's some caucasusian accent, armenian/georgian most likely.

No, he isn't.