See why a Fiat 126 is the BEST car for driving in London!

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  • čas přidán 13. 07. 2019
  • Join me for a tour round the busy streets of London in my Polski Fiat 126P. Also know as Maluch in Polish, which means Little One, you'll see why the car's small dimensions make it great for nipping through traffic, squeezing through width restrictors, slipstreaming other vehicles and parking pretty much where the heck you like.
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  • @pawelichwaa895
    @pawelichwaa895 Před 5 lety +7345

    If you refuel the Maluch, you will double its value.

    • @mosca3289
      @mosca3289 Před 5 lety +65

      Paweł Lichwała 😂

    • @BigBodyRacing
      @BigBodyRacing Před 5 lety +55

      Brilliant

    • @dkpheonix339
      @dkpheonix339 Před 5 lety +60

      you are polish right? great!

    • @dkpheonix339
      @dkpheonix339 Před 5 lety +21

      @Karol Szymon Wiśniewski what does "tak" mean. i dont actually speak polish, i just like poland

    • @OkOk-ic8yn
      @OkOk-ic8yn Před 5 lety +49

      @@dkpheonix339 "tak" means "yes"

  • @Przemo-c
    @Przemo-c Před 5 lety +2834

    - Maluch is a quiet car.
    - Sure but that's only because your knees are blocking your ears.

    • @750kv8
      @750kv8 Před 5 lety +8

      😂

    • @ArtUniverse
      @ArtUniverse Před 4 lety +63

      classic joke in Poland :-)

    • @hmxstrx
      @hmxstrx Před 4 lety +3

      Ha ha Ha! Good one

    • @mozart983
      @mozart983 Před 4 lety +12

      - What is the most silent Car?
      - Fiat 126p, because you are blocking your ears by your knee, when you sit..
      [I know that joke in this version..]

    • @flepix
      @flepix Před 4 lety +1

      @@mozart983 Me too.

  • @MM-hh5nz
    @MM-hh5nz Před 4 lety +1747

    Difference between Maluch and Maluch Sport model?
    - Maluch Sport comes with a tennis ball on the tow hook

  • @Poki3
    @Poki3 Před 4 lety +343

    When I was a kid, the belt in the engine snapped when we were driving on vacation. My dad used my moms pantihose as a substitute and it worked.

  • @SzalonyZibuch
    @SzalonyZibuch Před 5 lety +2237

    Maluch can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 2.74 seconds ...
    ... when in free fall.

  • @gpi715
    @gpi715 Před 5 lety +1918

    Maluch doesn't rust! It is only fully biodegradable.

    • @07filipb
      @07filipb Před 5 lety +51

      g pi active weight reduction 😂

  • @samma995
    @samma995 Před 4 lety +236

    Thank you Mat for reminding us about the participation of the great Polish 303 Squadron in defending England. Brave guys.

    • @thenurae.3315
      @thenurae.3315 Před rokem +5

      Such an amazing story, hadn't heard that before. Props to Mat for the history lesson and an absolute salute to those heroes!

  • @Donata1
    @Donata1 Před 4 lety +214

    This sound! The sound of this Maluch’s engine. The sound of my childhood:)

    • @m.m14433
      @m.m14433 Před 3 lety +5

      Haha i remember visiting grandma in poland and seeing these things everywhere. I love them.

    • @rogerhudson2814
      @rogerhudson2814 Před 3 lety +1

      The can be well soundproofed, at only a small cost in performance. My 126 had ONE aftermarket electric window (passenger side) and runflat tyres (which were horrible). GREAT CAR. The engine will take Abarth tuning parts.

    • @kevinwtf4637
      @kevinwtf4637 Před rokem +1

      @@m.m14433 in cuba you can also see many, in fact my father has one :)

    • @m.m14433
      @m.m14433 Před rokem

      @@rogerhudson2814 runflat tires on any car are garbage and overpriced

    • @m.m14433
      @m.m14433 Před rokem +1

      @@kevinwtf4637 awesome. I only visited camaguey for 1 wk. Never saw one.

  • @TriplePavel
    @TriplePavel Před 5 lety +2183

    Why does Maluch have a heated rear window?
    For the comfort of people pushing it during winter.

    • @lorakovaty
      @lorakovaty Před 5 lety +26

      Dobre 😂

    • @TheKenjoje
      @TheKenjoje Před 5 lety +30

      another 'yugo' joke :)

    • @Nele_BiH
      @Nele_BiH Před 5 lety +26

      our yugo owns that one stay away pols XD

    • @galbraith69
      @galbraith69 Před 5 lety +2

      @@Nele_BiH well this saying is traveling around for years mate :D But it is true Yugo share it XD

    • @pauljamesshellabear50
      @pauljamesshellabear50 Před 5 lety

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @yaroslavic1473
    @yaroslavic1473 Před 5 lety +1136

    Here is one polish joke about maluch:
    When does the Maluch reach its highest speed?
    During towing.

    • @wojtek_sanitarnik
      @wojtek_sanitarnik Před 5 lety +5

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @mareczek00713
      @mareczek00713 Před 5 lety +12

      Had a maluch, actually managed to push it to 75 mph, 52s 0-60, still funny to drive though ;)

    • @Wok_Agenda
      @Wok_Agenda Před 5 lety +2

      Oh Kurwa

    • @dodgers89
      @dodgers89 Před 4 lety +5

      Back in late 90's, we were doing around 120-125kph with four people on board, so it wasn't that bad ;)

    • @yme4me
      @yme4me Před 4 lety +1

      Ziom Polish zawsze kurwa zawsze z duzej. Z malej piszesz polerowac.

  • @kosipisakii
    @kosipisakii Před 4 lety +62

    For almost entire video I was like: damn why is he constantly blocking the left lane. Until I realised it is in England.

  • @mordapl1641
    @mordapl1641 Před 4 lety +573

    Film o Maluchu: ma malucha
    Polacy: *allow me to introduce myself*

    • @adrianjagielak
      @adrianjagielak Před 4 lety +36

      Dowolny film: jest po angielsku i ma w tytule Polskę/coś polskiego
      Polacy: *allow me to introduce myself*

    • @mshkvtz
      @mshkvtz Před 4 lety +8

      Jakikolwiek film na YT, nawet nie po polsku: *istnieje*
      Polacy: "przejmujemy ten film"

    • @balalaika1233
      @balalaika1233 Před 4 lety +1

      *allow us to introduce ourselves**

    • @oliwiergraczyk5319
      @oliwiergraczyk5319 Před 4 lety +1

      Jeszcze jak byczq +2137

  • @SiemaZiomek
    @SiemaZiomek Před 5 lety +707

    The Maluch is the quietest car- if you are sitting in it, your knees will cover your ears.

  • @mrheyfuckoff1
    @mrheyfuckoff1 Před 5 lety +1232

    New title: *Matt Watson doing illegal things for 13 minutes* lol
    Keep up the great content!

    • @Nathan.150
      @Nathan.150 Před 5 lety +3

      Did you notice the weed symbol

    • @kris856
      @kris856 Před 5 lety +1

      Matt Watson - I love you :) BTW - in this car resembling thing you don't need the side mirror, so it doesn't matter it flops down all the time. In this "car" all you need is being bold/crazy enough to get in and make it drive - as you can get canned in it very easily really.

    • @caulkins69
      @caulkins69 Před 5 lety +19

      @@Nathan.150 That's a maple leaf.

    • @kaiznpl
      @kaiznpl Před 5 lety +22

      nathanwashere 1 - It is green maple leaf sticker, which was obligatory in communism times for 2 decades (since 70’s). Every fresh driver was obligated to put it on their rear window for about 1 or 2 years (don’t remember exactly) to warn others about lack of his driver experience. There are plans to bring this law back again in Poland.

    • @lukkruk6904
      @lukkruk6904 Před 5 lety +2

      It is back, ma boy...

  • @bendin11
    @bendin11 Před 4 lety +174

    The Maluch has full approval of Vatican: it is impossible to sin in it.

  • @marcinbiskupski7507
    @marcinbiskupski7507 Před 3 lety +21

    This was my family car and we drove if from Poland over the Alps into Italy. Great workhorse and easy to fix. It was only when I got older and when we came back Poland for a visit that I realized how small it truly was. Upon our escape from Poland in 86’ we gave two nuns a ride when we got into Italy, it was tight. But looking back it must have been a scene 4 adults and two children getting out of the Maluch. Good work Mat for getting yourself one and in the process allowing me to remember my journey and allowing me to show my son what the car looked like.

  • @edsebert
    @edsebert Před 5 lety +234

    12 minutes of Matt breaking the rules in his fiat 126

  • @Lipasny
    @Lipasny Před 5 lety +849

    Mat, I suggest you unscrew the driver's seat, bring a tall friend and have him drive the car from the back seat.
    It's doable and hilarious, I've seen it happen.

    • @sebbe5004
      @sebbe5004 Před 4 lety +19

      blipinsk haha Ed China can do that i can bet

    • @trashcarfj45
      @trashcarfj45 Před 4 lety +1

      @Eryk Borczuch TV that's where I remember something like that happened

    • @aadi8568
      @aadi8568 Před 4 lety +4

      Jeremy clarkson did it in an old insignia

    • @gartekk1987
      @gartekk1987 Před 4 lety +8

      I had a PE teacher at my high school who was driving Maluch do exactly this. The guy was over 2m tall weightlifter. :D

    • @xxxxxxxxxx4879
      @xxxxxxxxxx4879 Před 4 lety +2

      Now imagine this in Polonez!

  • @OsinskiMateusz
    @OsinskiMateusz Před 4 lety +65

    The Fiat 126p used to rust already in the catalogues - that's an old saying my dad used and he owned a 126p in the 80s (fun fact, also in Katowice)

  • @marcinotto2085
    @marcinotto2085 Před 4 lety +309

    Childhood memories: dad, mom, grandma, sister, dog, me + laguage going 400km to the sea 😕
    Or my dad overtaking at 100kmh, noise, Everything shaking 😳😅 like warp4 space thing
    Now: modern car 200kmh, Poland-Chroatia or Warsaw-Moscow booooooring

    • @joseanl
      @joseanl Před 4 lety +12

      we had a clone licensed car build in Spain, SEAT 126, the experiences are the same, I drove a slightly upgraded version. It vibrated like a MF when you got it going...at 100/110km hour, it was a bit scary!

    • @joseanl
      @joseanl Před 4 lety +1

      actually I drove the Panda, a generation older from this one I think, a bit bigger too but not that big and still very slow

    • @gurozawa
      @gurozawa Před 4 lety +11

      i had a similiar story, i was 4 years old and there were five of us, my parents and two older sisters and luggage was packed in trailer and we travelled from warminskomazurski to zakopane. police stopped and told us this is not a 5 people car, but my parents just said "if you want you can take him (they meant me) with you" and they let us go

    • @Techie1224
      @Techie1224 Před 3 lety

      @@gurozawa lol

    • @torstenscholz6243
      @torstenscholz6243 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, bringing back the good ol' days when cars had character and emotion and car driving was fun and adventurous. Today it's as exciting as toast.

  • @Furokanal
    @Furokanal Před 5 lety +551

    Another funny polish joke about Maluch is that is already started rusting in the catalogue 😂

    • @rafjcee6619
      @rafjcee6619 Před 5 lety +17

      No no opel rust in catalog ;)

    • @Furokanal
      @Furokanal Před 5 lety +9

      Raf Games thats why we dont see no maluchs, kaddetts or astras F anymore on the streets... Its good to save the ones who survived 😀

    • @jmfjcas6014
      @jmfjcas6014 Před 5 lety +7

      Its joke about Opel , not 126p.Where do you see any F 126 p catalogue ?

    • @Furokanal
      @Furokanal Před 5 lety +2

      JMF JCAS i used to see one in Panorama "newspaper" from 92

    • @jmfjcas6014
      @jmfjcas6014 Před 5 lety +2

      @@Furokanal :D...it's only newspaper commercial , not catalog.126p, he never had any catalog

  • @PinkyPinkee
    @PinkyPinkee Před 5 lety +298

    I'm a simple Pole - I see Maluch, I upvote ;) Greetings from PL! :)

    • @lukkruk6904
      @lukkruk6904 Před 5 lety +3

      Nie jesteś tu sam...

    • @keithmartin1328
      @keithmartin1328 Před 5 lety +16

      I work with a lot of guys from Poland. And when we've talked about our first cars, 9 out of 10 owned a 126 as a first one.

    • @Evxeo
      @Evxeo Před 5 lety

      Thanks

    • @BasterZG
      @BasterZG Před 5 lety

      Widzę że Isamu jest wszędzie!

    • @marceltoszeff
      @marceltoszeff Před 5 lety

      @@keithmartin1328 yeah because there were a lot of them in Poland and Price was like really low one bottle of vodka etc XD

  • @radium86
    @radium86 Před 4 lety +141

    "Just for the opportunity to exact revenge on the Germans...."
    *Camera pans up to show behind Mercedes in traffic*

  • @lunareclipse-
    @lunareclipse- Před 4 lety +30

    My dad would drive me around city in his maluch when I was a baby, because apparently I wouldn’t shut up and go to sleep the other way xD.

  • @grzegorz8129
    @grzegorz8129 Před 5 lety +194

    The flopping down mirror is actually a feature. They were designed that way so they'd fold down after certain speed to improve aerodynamics.

    • @tobiasleiminger5920
      @tobiasleiminger5920 Před 5 lety +3

      Really? Sorry if I sound naive, but car engineers back then were a lot more creative so I must ask.

    • @grzegorz8129
      @grzegorz8129 Před 5 lety +9

      ​@@tobiasleiminger5920 Nah mate, it's one of those common Polish jokes about Maluch. ;)

    • @tobiasleiminger5920
      @tobiasleiminger5920 Před 5 lety

      @@grzegorz8129 alright thanks for that still ^^

  • @Notyourdaddy83
    @Notyourdaddy83 Před 5 lety +353

    „...hold my Żubr” lol

  • @MormoCs
    @MormoCs Před 4 lety +28

    Mat, grettings from Poland and thank you for spreading Maluch history around the world! :D Good job!

  • @CoolDudeClem
    @CoolDudeClem Před 4 lety +17

    i remember when I was young, my mum said you always need two of these ... one for each foot!

  • @robertlloyd4851
    @robertlloyd4851 Před 5 lety +624

    Love how people struggle to reverse cars with cameras and sensors. And here's matt in an old Polish cardboard box reversing through a narrow drive through 😂

    • @EvilTurkeySlices
      @EvilTurkeySlices Před 4 lety +31

      Modern cars are often awful for visibility. My 97 Accord has so much more rear visibility than my family’s 2018 Equinox.

    • @blauebiene7028
      @blauebiene7028 Před 4 lety +2

      Same here. My peugeot 106, build 2001 is much easier to drive backwarts than the new octavia from my mother

    • @ChallengerV8
      @ChallengerV8 Před 4 lety

      I had 1999 Mitsubishi Galant Avance and it was super easy to reverse, couldn't say the same about 2005 Ford Mondeo which I got later.

    • @mann318is
      @mann318is Před 3 lety +1

      it's not - cardboard box- It's made from steel. Cardboard box is a german TRABANT...

    • @smithers4420
      @smithers4420 Před 3 lety +2

      mate a fiat 126 is one of the easiest things you could ever reverse. Definitely easier than a modern big car even with cameras

  • @maciejszyszko7430
    @maciejszyszko7430 Před 5 lety +176

    Great that you mentioned Polish Squadron 303. Good work Matt, greetings from Poland :)

  • @graenicholls4657
    @graenicholls4657 Před 3 lety +7

    I drove an FSM Niki in 1991/2 for a few months and loved it.
    I found 70-kph ( 42-49mph) ok, 90kph (55mph) thrilling...
    I once wound it out to 112 kph (68mph) on a flat and that was thrilling too, but in the "I'm 19 and nothing can hurt me!" sense...
    but the time that taught me about being lucky was beyond any thrill and also terrifying.
    down a very long hill that little Niki got out of hand. it engine braked well enough for the less steep section and then once the steeper remaining decline had begun those little drum brakes went for a holiday.
    no idea how accurate that speedo is but I turned the engine off after it hit 125kph around a sweeping right hand bend. I figured the engine was the only brake I had and I had two choices. let it spin hard and maybe go beyond redline to destruction, or use the stopped engine's internal inertia to hold it back. I chose pulsing the clutch to spin the engine up then release it to allow the engine to slow, hoping that friction, inertia and compression slowed it.
    It worked, we got to the bottom of that run (there were 3 on board!) and took a break.
    I'm sure it would have went much worse if I'd let the motor spin as it wasn't really holding the car back once the thing sounded like hell in a bucket.
    The damn thing was hurtling down one section of that decline at about 147kph ( too fcuking fast) before it thankfully levelled a little.
    Yet I have wanted one ever since, and still do to this day.

  • @jkengland832
    @jkengland832 Před 4 lety +32

    6:34 Hold my Żubr, hahaha good one mate, for that you get a like, you even said the beer's name correctly

  • @dante1440
    @dante1440 Před 5 lety +172

    I remember the day they were ceasing the 126 production, Polish Radio 3 had a special about it with a phone in. The listeners were very nostalgic about that funny little imitation of a car. One guy said he and a mate, on student holidays, had travelled vast swathes of Eurasia in it, usually carrying some spare parts and tools with them. Best thing about it was its level of complexity - or rather - lack thereof. One time it broke down somewhere in Kazakhstan, they took the whole engine out and fixed it in a public toilet. He said he was over 190 cm tall and had since had numerous "normal" cars, he still felt very emotional about the Maluch in which he'd travelled so much. Nearly everyone in Poland who remembers the 126, has some stories about them...

    • @jockwhisky1
      @jockwhisky1 Před 4 lety +16

      Dante Allen
      Some decades back I drove mine to my in laws from Warsaw to Suwalki some 300km. There was something not right with the engine, like there was ever anything right with it. My father in law told me that he should still have an old spare engine and swapped it in the morning before we departed.

  • @radas92
    @radas92 Před 5 lety +249

    Hey Matt. True story . Maluchs at one point were so cheap that my friend bought it for 50 zloty which is roughly £10 back in the day .

    • @timorgano
      @timorgano Před 5 lety +2

      Well you know what they say... Zagrevev min zlotny dev

    • @missingremote4388
      @missingremote4388 Před 5 lety +8

      My first car was a 1976 Cadillac coup'dville. I paid $45 USD

    • @ewancameron9922
      @ewancameron9922 Před 5 lety

      If the hole car cost £10 i wonder what one of the wheels would cost

    • @r3h4n786
      @r3h4n786 Před 5 lety

      Damn nice 😂

    • @pawelnotts
      @pawelnotts Před 5 lety +3

      That's how much I sold my '84 125p in 2001 :D

  • @BartekRyder1983
    @BartekRyder1983 Před 3 lety +16

    Once, during a polish university student's holiday (Juwenalia - you can wiki it ;)), me and my friends saw a guy in Fiat 126p trying to move across a river of young people celebrating their holiday. Since everyone was too busy to leave a gap for the guy, me, my friends and couple of friendly students (6 men in total) lifted up the Fiat, moved with it above our heads across the human river, and delivered the car safely on the other bank :D Glory days :)

    • @zolnte996
      @zolnte996 Před 5 měsíci

      That mustve been so fun holy shit

  • @zofiakawa9031
    @zofiakawa9031 Před 4 lety +15

    The level of chaotic energy in this video is just... and the laugh!

  • @jano8559
    @jano8559 Před 5 lety +120

    Drag Race Idea:
    Maluch vs running Yianni

    • @lennon992
      @lennon992 Před 5 lety +2

      Jano He makes me the day hahaha

    • @MrKleru
      @MrKleru Před 5 lety +4

      Imagine Yanni's face during that race 😡

    • @iarpak
      @iarpak Před 5 lety +1

      Fantastic idea!!!!

  • @TheRutek007
    @TheRutek007 Před 5 lety +986

    Respect for knowledge about squadron 303 not many brits have that knowledge

    • @czaryone
      @czaryone Před 5 lety +32

      10 year in UK , if i told it to any English - they had no clue, or though i was lying - making it up. So sad

    • @jakubjodlowski6453
      @jakubjodlowski6453 Před 5 lety +6

      Respect indeed!

    • @kriskris2479
      @kriskris2479 Před 5 lety +23

      Znowu o tym kurwa dywizjonie 303 xd jedyne z czego polacy mogą być dumni bo reezta to zniszczenie uk przez polską patologie, ale o 303 jak ktoś nie słyszał to biada mu oj biada

    • @1SaG
      @1SaG Před 4 lety +6

      Repeat, please...?

    • @RichardADastardly
      @RichardADastardly Před 4 lety +20

      @@czaryone Plenty of us know about it. You've just been unlucky enough to talk to some ignorant people.
      czcams.com/video/yXf1bhEEXd0/video.html

  • @user-wo1ur5tz9d
    @user-wo1ur5tz9d Před 4 lety +5

    seeing matts shenanigans treating london like a playground has to be the best content on youtube

  • @qbel4255
    @qbel4255 Před 4 lety +96

    What do Maluch and a Mercedes have in common?
    The crumple zone ends in the engine bay

    • @keszelll
      @keszelll Před 4 lety +1

      i get it lol dobry zart

    • @zonk486
      @zonk486 Před 3 lety +1

      it's commonly known joke in poland - it always work, even now :)

  • @dominicpowell9055
    @dominicpowell9055 Před 5 lety +524

    So when is the drag race ?

    • @akusa82
      @akusa82 Před 5 lety +32

      He had the drag race with the little boy 😂🤷‍♂️

    • @ryszardadamski
      @ryszardadamski Před 5 lety +3

      Its very fast car! 😉
      czcams.com/video/9-PJ9m2PzD4/video.html

    • @nibhanbaig6675
      @nibhanbaig6675 Před 5 lety +3

      I dont know that but the will definately be with against a buggati

    • @marcinkienast1134
      @marcinkienast1134 Před 5 lety +2

      Against a Tesla S P100D

    • @rezaulkreza
      @rezaulkreza Před 5 lety

      Against A Ducatti

  • @idiottv6499
    @idiottv6499 Před 5 lety +67

    This doesn't translate well, but here's an actual conversation I overheard a few years back:
    -Ok, so I was driving my Maluch and...
    -I'm sorry, did you say "driving"?
    -Pardon. So I was *walking* my Maluch...

  • @romualdo9871
    @romualdo9871 Před 4 lety +8

    "hołd my żubr" make my day 😂😂👍. 126 is my first car. I love him.

  • @PriHL
    @PriHL Před 4 lety +8

    This is so lovely! I just admire how much fun you've got with the car. My parents used to drive one when I was small. And I saw one in Dagenham last summer. A huge thumbs up for the Polish War Memorial in Northolt!

  • @karlostalmajer
    @karlostalmajer Před 5 lety +165

    Screw the ferrari and lambo car vlogs
    I lile this better

  • @gergelypap1324
    @gergelypap1324 Před 5 lety +183

    Thank god this channel is not dead

  • @jwp8212
    @jwp8212 Před 3 lety +2

    MAD respect for these videos, even though I haven't been born in Poland, you have certainly sparked a feeling of nostalgia, melancholy and pride of my ancestry.

  • @mateuszwesoowski9583
    @mateuszwesoowski9583 Před 8 měsíci +2

    The funny story about the Polish 303 squadron was that the British kept doubting their performance with the kill count of German planes.
    British ministry kept sending officers to observe the Polish pilots in action to see if they are exaggerating. The assigned officers kept going back singing such high praises that in turn they were also mistrusted - resulting in sending another officer to observe... which lead to sending more officers to audit... which brought them back to square one. They had several go before they gave up.
    "A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II" written by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud is a great book on the subject. Reads like an action novel.

  • @CDOES
    @CDOES Před 5 lety +104

    This is the best old school Top Gear review I've seen. I love the content Mat! Keep it simple and classy

  • @TexMexStrada
    @TexMexStrada Před 5 lety +44

    Thank you for bringing back some great memories of my youth! I spent lots of time in a 126p. Here are some ideas of how to enhance your 126p experience: 1. Take it down some dirt/grave/sandy roads, or maybe even on a beach. As it is very light, rear engined, and rear wheel drive, it gets through the loose/sandy stuff surprisingly well, and, in turns with loose surfaces, it is a 911 at 1/10th scale! 2. It is great for chauffeuring a person around: Remove the front passenger seat, and have your distinguished guest enjoy limo-scale legroom without stirring any anti-bourgeois backlash. You can have your luxury cake & eat it too :-). 3. Use it as a nimble in-town transporter: Remove the front passenger seat, slap on a luggage rack, and be the coolest and most effective courier around. The guys/gals from UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. will turn green with envy, as will the bike courier folks. 4. Get a N126 caravan trailer, hook it up to your 126p (don't forget to gap the rear hood for better cooling) and go on holiday! The folks with the expensive teardrop trailers will match colors with the couriers mentioned above when they see you pull into the campground. 5. The 126p is a great car to teach somebody how to drive with (that is how I learned): It requires precision and concentration, and is great at teaching somebody how to drive by feeling. Also, in most cases, a little slip up at the controls can be compensated for easily and doesn't risk a major accident. It is a great at teaching smooth inputs, because, if you can become a smooth driver in a 126, your should be able to manage any other more modern automobile with aplomb. I hope this helps, and thank you once again for the trip down memory lane!

  • @mikoajzarnawski2510
    @mikoajzarnawski2510 Před 4 lety +9

    Hahaha, dude, I just can't believe you actually drove into the memorial ground...

  • @krzysztofkalinski2616
    @krzysztofkalinski2616 Před 4 lety +10

    Greatings from Poland! The motto is: the position of the driver in the Maluch resembles the famous medieval engraving: peasant in pillory.

  • @Skorrigan
    @Skorrigan Před 5 lety +79

    I remember my parents and me aged 10 travelling from Poland to Italy in that one. I also remember how embarassing it was to be overtaken by trucks on a highway...

    • @jurivlk5433
      @jurivlk5433 Před 5 lety

      @Joshua Morgan After 10 km even the driver gets seasick. But they are so cute and have so many special things like the handaccelerator.

    • @mysteriousdoge1298
      @mysteriousdoge1298 Před 4 lety

      @@jurivlk5433 My father was driving us over 500km in it, you pussy.

  • @SrogiJogi
    @SrogiJogi Před 5 lety +103

    You can't even imagine what Maluch is for Poland. This car pretty much motorised most of our families back in the day, in deep f* comunism... My dad had 16 of these in his life. Most used in driving school... Had actually mine as well... They had price like a bicycle in my youth, lol xD

    • @YPO6
      @YPO6 Před 4 lety +20

      I remember seeing a couple of these cars here in Finland in the late 1980s (probably 87-88) when many Polish families traveled around Europe and worked on large farms during the harvest months. It was quite interesting to see how they managed to fit 4-5 people and all their suitcases in the Fiat 126.

  • @grainyday
    @grainyday Před 4 lety +2

    Oh dude - me and 3 of my mates in my green Maluch going for camping holiday with BoomBox playing KAliber44 - summer 1997 I think - we had some problems going uphills but this is when `ssanie` was handy .... amazing you are driving the Legend. good luck !

  • @HUNdAntae
    @HUNdAntae Před 4 lety +22

    The polish pilots be like "i can hear the fritz over there kurwa!"

  • @OllyBaldwin1978
    @OllyBaldwin1978 Před 5 lety +180

    I haven’t laughed that much in a long time lol!! Funny episode Mat

  • @tanmaypathak6060
    @tanmaypathak6060 Před 5 lety +228

    Reversing into the drive-through. Loved it.
    You are a real-life Mr. Bean...Matt Bean

  • @kaminraf
    @kaminraf Před 3 lety

    Love this video! It was my first car actually!!! Welcome back into 90's :) you made my day :)

  • @supercarfanatic2078
    @supercarfanatic2078 Před 4 lety +10

    Greetings from Poland xd you made my day :-)

  • @emmanuelkurek-chomycz8840
    @emmanuelkurek-chomycz8840 Před 4 lety +272

    Thank you for pointing out that the Polish pilots were so brave, sometimes this fact gets lost in history! We all need to remind everyone of how brave our pilots were!🇵🇱

  • @jacekciunczyk9576
    @jacekciunczyk9576 Před 5 lety +271

    Hold my żubr(polish beer) is the best part 😂

  • @movingforwardwithahad317

    I wish I had a friend like you in my childhood who had similar interests as you. This was the first family car and I have so many fond memories of this. Do not have the mechanical know how to maintain a car as such without fuel injection and no oil filter, so the confidence is not quite there considering that most of my local mechanics are also looking to build a receipt and not a relationship.
    I love the simplicity of this car, its engine note, the heat from the engine bay warming the seats, to the lack of a synchro all adds to it's appeal. Someday, I'll find a place where people aren't too busy looking to out-do the person next to them and possibly take part in silly things such as going through a drive-thru backwards.
    Good Luck Mr. Mat

  • @krzysztofsaa2997
    @krzysztofsaa2997 Před 4 lety

    I drove those for many years. Part of my life ..... Thanks for the smile. Greetings from Poland.

  • @dariuszciesielski5104
    @dariuszciesielski5104 Před 5 lety +82

    Mat thank you for a bit of history of 303 squadron !!! History that connect 🇵🇱 &🇬🇧 .

  • @Punzer666
    @Punzer666 Před 5 lety +48

    You can control it like a jet fighter. When you go fast (around 60 MPH in this car), you can turn by opening those small windows near mirrors

  • @reysaj
    @reysaj Před 4 lety

    Mat's accent and great personality makes me comeback and watch cars' reviews even if I can't afford to buy one.

  • @DwainDwight
    @DwainDwight Před 4 lety +1

    Matt - I have a 128 when I was at uni. Great cars. went like the clappers. 1300cc, SOHC and a Weber. awesome.

  • @twylin8423
    @twylin8423 Před 5 lety +32

    I'm Polish. And I was laughing crying watching this😂😂😂. The best episode what I ever seen 👍👍

  • @dimitrijedjurdjevic838
    @dimitrijedjurdjevic838 Před 5 lety +69

    I’m not polish, but in Serbia we call this car ‘peglica’ which roughly means small clothes iron.

    • @hanifchohan8763
      @hanifchohan8763 Před 5 lety

      What is mileage of this car???

    • @dimitrijedjurdjevic838
      @dimitrijedjurdjevic838 Před 5 lety

      hanif chohan apparently it’s 5.3l/100 km or 53.3 mpg

    • @dimitrijedjurdjevic838
      @dimitrijedjurdjevic838 Před 5 lety +1

      tamta ramta yeah, it’s just trabant, but we call the fiat 500 fica or fića

    • @dimitrijedjurdjevic838
      @dimitrijedjurdjevic838 Před 5 lety +1

      tamta ramta I saw some syrenas, but I never saw a polonez. Serbian and previously Yugoslavian car culture was pretty homogeneous, it’s all just german cars and yugos. Thats it. Oh and mybe some ladas too. All polish cars accepted the polski fiat are very rare.

    • @rus84d
      @rus84d Před 5 lety

      We had many polonez cars in Yugoslavia.

  • @emerjay348
    @emerjay348 Před 2 lety

    That was brilliant :D had a laugh, it's nice you got our polish Maluszek, hope you get all the cars you want on your channel, subsribed for new videos.

  • @fillywinks
    @fillywinks Před 4 lety

    Thank you for not just telling jokes about the polish, but also mentioning some things we are proud of. Nicely done.

  • @Al1en_Boy_The_5th_Kind
    @Al1en_Boy_The_5th_Kind Před 5 lety +240

    I have this car in USA 👍😎And I have more attention then those exotic sports cars 🤣😎🤔🤣👍🤐

    • @iamasmurf1122
      @iamasmurf1122 Před 5 lety +2

      What sort of attention ? Like laughing at it ? Seriously what good is it to tow with or load up people with ? It seems a waste putting petrol in it. It should be a flower bed in the front garden

    • @MarcinHRN
      @MarcinHRN Před 5 lety +11

      Wow Tom Hanks here?

    • @zepter00
      @zepter00 Před 5 lety +11

      Michael Wilson Oh shut up. Tom Hanks has car and loves it.

    • @studiocalder818
      @studiocalder818 Před 5 lety

      Incredibile
      A white fly I suppose! Ho did You import it?

    • @Al1en_Boy_The_5th_Kind
      @Al1en_Boy_The_5th_Kind Před 5 lety +1

      studio calderini it’s little bit tricky👍 and bit of money 😎

  • @Remington510
    @Remington510 Před 5 lety +61

    You Sir, are positively bonkers. This car suits you xD
    126p is not a car. It is a mobile story writer.
    When my dad bought it first, it broke down in the middle of a railway crossing on the way home. He bought it when my mom was pregnant, already in the hospital waiting for her term with me :D
    Later he decided to paint it. His friend who agreed to paint it left the car outside at some point and it started to rain... So for some time we had it piebald orange :3

    • @janpiwowarczyk2858
      @janpiwowarczyk2858 Před 4 lety +1

      Nullmaruzero I am sure it was not a big deal anyway- it was so light to push! As well once stopped working there was a need to ask someone else to push and it was going!

  • @JohnCorrUK
    @JohnCorrUK Před rokem

    Brilliant video Matt - great to see 🇵🇱 monument

  • @amshuindia
    @amshuindia Před 2 lety

    Hi Mat, this video was thoroughly enjoyed by me, it is simple yet effective. This car still has a lot of life in it. Cheers

  • @Valhalla_Awaits94
    @Valhalla_Awaits94 Před 5 lety +113

    I once did 110kph in that thing, I would have felt safer on a bicycle.

    • @maxshykhov7518
      @maxshykhov7518 Před 5 lety +19

      That's where your nickname comes from?

    • @1988Demien
      @1988Demien Před 5 lety +1

      One guy from my street did it ages ago and almost got killed. Engine blew up and almost crashed

    • @Valhalla_Awaits94
      @Valhalla_Awaits94 Před 5 lety +2

      @@1988Demien I did it the smart way, with the engine turned off, it would have never reached that speed with the engine on without exploding. Thank God for hills.

    • @scazziraid903
      @scazziraid903 Před 5 lety +3

      phew, beat this: 140kmh on expressway. Right lane driver's face expressions to be overtaken by kaszlak (cough-car) - unforgettable :) but mine was a bit tuned (sporty camshaft and exhaust, lower cylinder head and improved air intake). Great car! I really miss it.

    • @1988Demien
      @1988Demien Před 5 lety

      @@scazziraid903 I wonder what happend with those with Kawasaki engine. What hapend with yours?

  • @Petrik_33
    @Petrik_33 Před 5 lety +129

    Pls do a drag race with this Fiat😂

    • @theCinator
      @theCinator Před 5 lety +10

      Lol against a bicycle would be it's only chance.

    • @Petrik_33
      @Petrik_33 Před 5 lety +5

      Should race the 720S or Yianni's lambo

    • @michacyman8605
      @michacyman8605 Před 5 lety +6

      Fiat 126p vs supercats in reverse gear xd

    • @Petrik_33
      @Petrik_33 Před 5 lety

      @@michacyman8605 the supercars would still win xD

    • @kakadots
      @kakadots Před 5 lety

      I’m pretty sure Mat could outrun it

  • @Zekkoo
    @Zekkoo Před 4 lety

    Why it was recommended to me only now?! Great video! Maluch was the first car I had a chance to drive myself. It's interesting seeing it on the streets of London! Thanks!

  • @veljko6333
    @veljko6333 Před 4 lety

    favourite video on youtube! We need more small cars ❣️

  • @robertzdunczyk
    @robertzdunczyk Před 5 lety +72

    Thanks for paying respect to those who fought and died for you. Greetings from Poland.

    • @stefankusniez9271
      @stefankusniez9271 Před 5 lety +5

      Worth mentioning the UK charged Poland for fuel, ammo, leasing Spitfires and using British landfields during the Battle of Britain.
      And that is fucking far from OK.

    • @SaycoRa
      @SaycoRa Před 5 lety +1

      @@stefankusniez9271 Raison d'être of the government is to look after its own country and its citizens first and foremost.It may not look OK,but it's reasonable.

    • @iamasmurf1122
      @iamasmurf1122 Před 5 lety +2

      Stefan Kuśnież there was a thing called the Warsaw Pact an aggrement that Poland signed with the UK basically a protection insurance , if it was not for the UK and also ultimately the USA stepping in winger you wouldn’t even have had a life to be able to pay or use money the Germans would have continued to send you to the gas chambers so grow up !!

    • @stefankusniez9271
      @stefankusniez9271 Před 5 lety

      SaycoRa
      Reasonable, yes. Afterwards. Next time Poles will not fight for your country :)

    • @stefankusniez9271
      @stefankusniez9271 Před 5 lety +1

      Michael Wilson
      Your knowledge is stunning. Warsaw pact was signed in Warsaw and was another story.
      Thx to assholes like you more and more Poles think it was better to ally with Hitler.
      Imagine squadrons 303 and 304 bombing London and UK airfields. There would be nothing to invade afterwards.
      In Teheran and Yalta UK together with USA sold POland to soviet occupation. Soviets killed more people than nazis.
      Who is stupid, Mike?

  • @michelangeloboldri9893
    @michelangeloboldri9893 Před 5 lety +67

    Nice of you mentioning the 303. It's one of those stories that aren't being told around much sadly.

  • @BIGALB75
    @BIGALB75 Před 4 lety

    Great little car, my friend had one at college! Lovin' your work @Matt

  • @rafamusiccheck
    @rafamusiccheck Před 2 lety

    this is awesome Matt!

  • @VyznR
    @VyznR Před 5 lety +177

    You have a sticker with a green leaf, it means the beginning driver :)

    • @habece1985
      @habece1985 Před 4 lety +7

      in the front leaf in the back leaf...and inside stump(idiot)

    • @xGh0stHD
      @xGh0stHD Před 4 lety

      @@habece1985 Someone becomes an idiot, because they made a mistake? got it xDDD

    • @habece1985
      @habece1985 Před 4 lety +2

      @@xGh0stHD it is kind of joke in poland...

    • @xGh0stHD
      @xGh0stHD Před 4 lety

      @@habece1985 Ohh, my apologies! Sorry, trying my best to understand these cultural differences.

    • @habece1985
      @habece1985 Před 4 lety +7

      @@xGh0stHD i will try to explain You...in the center of cabbage in polish is "głąb" stupid man is "głąb" too...in the center of cabbage is stump and stupid man is an idiot...with green leaf in poland are driving young driver who isn't so clever as old driver sooooo....if leaf is in fort and in the back so the stump in cabbage is inside...hard to translate because differents beetween languages

  • @sleepwalker3130
    @sleepwalker3130 Před 5 lety +51

    Spent some time in Krakow PL last month, saw just 2 or 3 of these beastirettes. I thought they are already dissolved by the sands of time! Iconic!
    More vids with Fiat, please))
    Greetings from Ukraine.

    • @mysteriousdoge1298
      @mysteriousdoge1298 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah, they were still popular in the 90's but since then they're almost extinct.

    • @pawekrzysztof1677
      @pawekrzysztof1677 Před 4 lety +3

      Right. The Maluch is almost gone now. It's rare bird. Pitty.

  • @dawidst16polk
    @dawidst16polk Před 4 lety +4

    Now imagine mom and dad with two children going on three weeks vacation. yep. Thats my childhood :)

  • @blairo15
    @blairo15 Před 2 lety +2

    I've just bought a nice clean one here in Australia. I take delivery next Saturday. I've wanted one since they had them at the royal Melbourne show in the 80s when I was a kid. I've got a white 91 model with an orange interior.

  • @adamnowak1866
    @adamnowak1866 Před 5 lety +91

    Hahaha I can't stop laughing, your pronunciation in polish is so funny :D
    I love your videos and I am waiting for more!

  • @samharwood5372
    @samharwood5372 Před 5 lety +96

    Some of this stuff is so illegal 😂

    • @MeneGR
      @MeneGR Před 5 lety +1

      Exactly, unacceptable.

    • @Jake-vd8os
      @Jake-vd8os Před 4 lety +1

      It’s just a bit of fun lol

  • @pawelrzesny1222
    @pawelrzesny1222 Před 4 lety +2

    You made me laugh so hard Mat :))!!!! When I was a child we had one of this magic car , 4 people in and a huge suit case on top and we were ready to go all around Poland , amazing times :) !!!

  • @lukebryant5362
    @lukebryant5362 Před 3 lety

    Yo please do more on a 126! You made me want one and now I'm saving for one! Please keep doing them!!

  • @jugostran
    @jugostran Před 5 lety +186

    In Croatia we call those "Peglica", meaning a tiny clothing iron!

  • @lukamlinar
    @lukamlinar Před 5 lety +30

    In former Yugoslavia it was a super popular car. It has a nickname "Peglica" [pronounced peglica, not peg-Lica] that means small iron (clothes iron). It is almost exclusively known by this name in that region.
    Original nick name in the region for the car was Tetrapak (Tetra Pak) as it resembled a carton of milk. After the refreshed model came to Yugoslavia under the designation "Polski Fiat 126P GL". Since PeGLa is a clothes iron and the car is small (ica being a suffix for making something miniature), the car got a nickname Peglica.

    • @Tomasz_Piekarski
      @Tomasz_Piekarski Před 3 lety +3

      Did you also have a nickname for DDR's Trabant? :-) We called it "mydelniczka" which in Polish means a soap holder or a soap box. ;-P

    • @horstszibulski19
      @horstszibulski19 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Tomasz_Piekarski Here in western Germany we call the Trabant "Rennpappe" (racing cardboard) for it's body shell made of resin and fibres...
      :-D

  • @kalownik85
    @kalownik85 Před 4 lety +2

    this reminds me my childhood, i was 14 when ive been driving this beauty Maluch:)

  • @RobertP7884
    @RobertP7884 Před 4 lety +1

    lots of memories thanks alot, remember adding remote control central locking to mine!

  • @Lolimaster
    @Lolimaster Před 5 lety +51

    When a smart car looks like a SUV vs an avrg "compact" car from the past.

  • @Bucharski85
    @Bucharski85 Před 5 lety +68

    thanks for saying word about Polish Pilots of 303 Squadron. Greetings from Poland.

  • @MisterBrownJack
    @MisterBrownJack Před 4 lety +1

    Great video!!!

  • @Diaboli-Incarnatus-77
    @Diaboli-Incarnatus-77 Před 4 lety +1

    Hi, I'm Polish and I would like to thank you for a great video about our national law, which is FIAT 126p, I myself "reworked" several models of this car, from the "toddler" from 1982, through FIAT 126 Bis, and ending with the model 126 EL that this is one of the coolest cars I had, in Poland there is such a joke about "toddlers as they are commonly called FIATY 126p, well:" toddler "is perfect but has one drawback, namely, the crumple zone ends on the rear sofa.
    And one more thing in Poland, often "baby" is called:
    lighter
    cough (from coughing engine)
    and my friend was tenderly saying "bee" to him.
    Best regards from the city of Łódź.