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Just a correction. The Puma with weird name in South Africa was a failure, the new Puma Luminari with the orange painting shown at the end of the video is actually from Brazil, the car was seen sometimes being tested at Interlagos circuit.
And they have another concept car too, i don't remember the name, but Puma has an Instagram account with pictures of both modern cars
Yes, and thei being developed over a 2.4liter 16vdohc inline 4, opel/gm engine, the car already made some good times on interlagos on teste session in TRS trackdays.
Sério memo ?
@@VictorHugo-pr7fr sss, tem um protótipo dando uns role por São Paulo, acho que ele tem motor de Fox ou Golf
The car looked weird and destined to fail.
You know the rules:
"If you put Brazil in the title/thumbnail, your video now belongs to the brazilians".
VEM PRO BRASIL
Nosso vídeo, camarada kkkk
A horda foi sumonada
@@lucasZr113 Brasil dominou.esse vídeo já
@@marciovinicius6990 como deve ser slskskkss
Brace yourselves, Brazil is coming!
We want the video about Gurgel Cars - the company that designed the first Brazilian electric car! 🇧🇷
Yesss
Only 90s kids remember when the title was “When Mohammed Ali almost SAVED a struggling Brazilian car maker”
Cool story, bros.
Fun fact: Al Fassi sounds exactly like "alface", which means lettuce in Portuguese. So there you go, the Puma Lettuce.
Eu ia escrever isso mas fiquei com preguiça kkk
Puma alface KKKKKKKKKKKKK
Foi a primeira coisa que me veio na mente KKKKKKKKKKKKKK
ALFACE KKKK
Hahahahah, Al fassi, originate from the fact Sheik Al fassi, was from Moroccan city ; Fes
Não tinha pensado nisso akkakakakak
You can still see Pumas over here in Brazil, they're a really awesome car, and they're not the only local manufacturers that crashed when the ban was lifted, well, it is unfortunate, I wish they would succeed in the new environment, we deserve a good local manufacturer.
dude, you gotta thank god every day for the lift of bans!!
why? because believe it or not, we still have this bans in Iran (actually we had the bans since 42 years ago, but since 2017 we got a new ban law which doesn't let any car to import in our country)
so why you should be happy? because all the story I told you about resulted in having 3 major domestic car manufacturers, who make old, low powered, low security and functunality cars with a very high price tag. basically they got a monopoly, and with government become involved with them, they are now as powerful as ever, and wont answer to nobody!
SO, be happy, and don't even think about not having a good domestic car manufacturer. Use brazilian made foreign cars!
@@MadZMax Nowadays the imports suffer from heavy taxation so it’s almost a new ban. Brazil likes to take one step further and then two more back.
@@MadZMax Exactly.
Same thing happened in my country India.
Now we have foreign manufacturers and two Indian companies who make good cars but not at the level of Europeans and Americans.
They could talk about Gurgel as well and talk about our "muscle car", the Opala (had a inline 6 that was sold in the Camaro up there in US)...
@@MadZMax In any moment I said I wasn't happy about it, I just said "I wish at least one of them could do it," if they couldn't, it's their fault, but as @Miami Wave said, the taxation is still fuckin' us up.
Brazilians when they see Brazil in a video: “Hmm... Let’s be cool and stay off the radar”
Literally not a second later: *Watch, comment, like, comment again, goes back to the video... but goes back and answers all comments with Brazilian lore*
I'm a simple man, I see 'Ordem e Progresso', I click.
Também kkkkkkkkk
Brabo, to rachando de rir com esses comentários
kkkkkkk
This history is so cool. Even here in Brazil many never knew about it
aoba brazuca !
Yeah!
Yeah, I know the carmaker but didn't know about its history
@@afrikav8 vamos dominar o mundo kkkk
@@gabrieltenguan4470 Bom dia rapaziada
Make an Up to speed on “Gurgel”. Another crazy brazilian car company
NO MAN! OPALA
Gurgel Itaipu had the polygonal shape before tesla made it cool.. haha
Gol
Miura too, the car could talk! haha
@@acastilhon the most underrated and first eletric car ever
We need more of Brazilian
Domestic Market in Donut Media! We have Miura too, the Vorax and some unique cars like VW SP2
You guys missed a perfect chance for a “your going to Brazil” joke
Não esperava ver a Donut falar da Puma, que orgulho!
Vamo ver se eles fazem um do Gurgel também
Isso sim que é cultura
@@joaopedrosambatti2474 aí já pediu muito
Finalmente! Quem sabe sai um up to speed com o Opala
Daora demais
Here in Brazil few of us known this history, thanks Donut. Its so hard to be a Brazilian automaker, when the ban was still on my grandpa started his own manufacture: SELVAGEM. Until this day, we build buggys, we are located in Natal, Rio grande do norte, its like a postal card, the tourism at the dunes. The Buggys at start used the same VW air cooled base, but now we have we own chassis and uses the vw 1.4l engine. In one of his storys, my grandpa telled me that even arabic shakes wanted to export the buggys, in the auge was a real fever, they are the best buggys ever made hahaha
Hey man same hare! work on a buggy with my dad ever since i was 5 on itámaraca
@@vitorcampos2524 que bacana!! Pra você ver como o momento cria as oportunidades
Caraca, q daora
Ah, quero Buggy kk, tu manda p Maceió?
@@hugeeyes04 manda sim hahah só entrar na fila de espera. Por conta da dificuldade que estamos tendo com o fornecimento do powertrain pela VW, e a diminuição do número de funcionários, a produção está bem lenta.
Nolan: but, did you no he have a car company based on Brazil?
Me, a brazilian: wait, what?
Hey guys, love your program but in this one your editor made a lot of mistakes. Showed the VW Boxer engine when talking about the DKW, same happend when was talking about the begging of the factory, when Puma produces only DKW based cars anda you put a picture of the VW based model...
Also, this $ 1.1 million "Youabian Puma" has absolutely nothing to do with the Brazilian Puma, the company that made this African car is called 'Youabian' and the model is called Puma (like as happened with the "ford puma" ), not the other way around! (btw, happy to see you here Opinião Sincera).
Omg this is Opinião Sincera in Dount vídeo
What? Opinião Sincera aqui num video do Donut.
O motor do DKW era sim um vw a ar com um cilindro a menos hahaha pode contar os cabos de vela, deixa o editor dos cara em paz zé ruela kkkkkkk
Opinião Sincera and Donut Media. That's a crossover that I would never expect.
As a Brazilian it's really refreshing to see a story about automotive history
If there are more stories lie this you should bring them up so donut can make more videos
As a brazilian petrolhead, it's really great to see this history.
@@dmjunqueirarv Mad respect to Brazil and especially the GOAT of F1, Ayrton Senna!
Escutar o Nolan falando do Brasil.....priceless
@@hacatan24 i don't know if it had a good history, cuz it's a forgotten Brand but we had some cars that used to use vegetal fuel, they were called Gurgel
My dad was born in the 1960's here in Brasil, and one day we were walking in a car show and when we saw the Puma my dad said: "This was my dream car when I was your age". Also, although I already knew the car existed, I had no idea that Muhammad Ali and the Gulf War were related to it! Crazy!
What a small world we live in
My neighbour actually has a 1982 Puma GT 1600 with the original H4 1600 air-cooled. I live in Sault Ontario Canada btw.
Thanks to this video, and the trail of history, I was able to find who made the cars, where they began and ultimately helped me find a distributor for my neighbour at my work.
I work at PartSource and because of this video I could do my job better.
Thanks @donut you guys are amazing at what you do, keep it up.
Now that's what we've been waiting! Puma is one of the amazing gems we had over here.
It was also popular in South Africa and they produced it for a lot of time, using the chassis from the Bug.
*spits the coffee *
YOU GUYS WHAT????????
*Brazilian Heart skips a beat *
Br hue
Aight, you guys officially invoked all brazillians to this videos comment section, brace yourselves.
Vai Brasil! 🇧🇷
Vai Brasil!!!! Tmj
VAI BRASIL CARAIO
Vai Brasil!!!..... I'm not Brazillian.
Bora carai
ESSE MOMENTO É NOSSO PORRA
This is great! I'm from Argentina and I have heard little to nothing about this sick story! 🇦🇷💪🇧🇷
But Donut could tell the Ika Torino's history 😁
@@vchicarolli which is just a restyled Rambler Classic... But the Nürburgring part would be sweet as f#ck anyways 😍 ...is there an Up to Speed on Fangio? It should be... 🙌🇦🇷
This was the greatest achievement of south american motorsport 😁
As a brazillian car enthisoast, thank you so much guys for taking the time to make a video about this awesome brazillian treasure! PUMAs are awesome!
Puma still a very desireable car here in Brazil. Thanks, Ali!
I remember when I was a kid and saw a puma, I was like “yooo , so thats what a ferrari locks like?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Puma, Gurgel, Miura, Lobini dentre outras... BR
Todas que, infelizmente, sucumbiram... Inclusive para as americanas!!!
Santa Matilde ❤️
@@georgeaugustogarciabehaker8660 não estavam preparados. Mas querendo ou não antes de Tesla e carros Espertos, tinham esses dai
“To understand how this all started, we have to go back to the birth of Jesus”
Me as a Brazilian watching Nolan try "Araucária" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nem eu consigo pronunciar de primeira haha
Nem é tão difícil assim
Mano, e o sheik Alface? Eu tô desitratando de rir aqui Hahahahaha
Ele tentando falar é fantástico, o mais bacana é ele mostrando uma parte de nossa história, que um parcela da população sequer conhece, resumo eles tem mais interesse pela nossa história que os próprios canais automotivos brasileiros que use intitulam gear-heads, sequer contaram esta história (exceto flatout que é o melhor neste quesito).
exatamente lol
As a Brazilian the only note is the pronounce of ARA-Y-KA-RY-Ah ... amazing history amazing research ... The local media in Brazil can explode of jealousy watching this 💣
I'd love to see an episode/podcast on the Argentinian Torino. It's such a great car with a crazy story and racing heritage
I'm glad to see you guys talking about Brasil, as a Brazilian an a old fan of the channel. You should bring up a video talking about the Puma models (that uses vw beetle and a 4.1 6in line GM engine, from the opala (the Brazilian version of Chevy nova)) and how the puma owners community are active an very enthusiastic. Thank you for the video!
Você disse Brasil?, ok aqui estamos nós Brasileiros
*WE HAVE BEEN SUMMONED*
Hahahaha! Sempre
Sempre forever
Hu3 powaaaah
Huehuehuehuehue
Guys, this video was so cool, as a Brazilian I'm so glad our car history is being reviewed and told by people like you!
bro, not even brazilian youtube channels brig stories like this in this depth. This is awesome
VAI BRASIL, EU ESPEREI ANOS POR ESSE DIA!
TÔ EMOCIONADO!!!
You should make “Ranking All Of The Transformers Cars.” Please make one
hope they listen
Lmao they could do one episode just for all the variations of bumblebee
they should make this it would be the most entertaining video ever
Yes
facts
Here in brazil we say that you have two moments of happiness when you get a Puma. The moment you buy and the moment that you manage to sell it 😂
Suggestion for future video: how the Ford Maverick became popular in Latin America because, unlike here, you could get one with a V8.
Well... The Ford Maverick was a fiasco here in Brazil
@@luccaandrade7460 how so? in terms of sales or quality?
@@MaverickFor44 Both of them I think... The Ford maverick was too small and tight compared to others cars like the Chevy Opala and Dodge Dart, also it had a fame of being slower than the rivals and overheating. The sales were weak and the Maverick was discontinued in 1979 when it's rival continued in production until 1992.
@@MaverickFor44 The ford maverick It just became to be popular in the early 2000's. Today you need to afford lots of money to buy one in good conditions ( Around BRL: 180.000).
Nolan, obrigado por explicar para o mundo como nossos carros eram especiais.
Thanks Nolan you represent!!!
Please say again, Araucária!!!
Now Pumas will shoot up in prices, just as I was trying to get one. Thanks 😂
@Aleatory segue lá o instagram da puma, vai custar algo em torno de 200mil kkk
Os antigos já estão subindo de preço, se prepare para pagar em um Puma GT acabado uns 30k a 40k, hoje em dia ta na moda vender carro antigo caro, ainda mais no nível do Puma...
For real man, now my hopes are gone lol, at least the brand might make a revival and get some love from people.
@@fernandoariasdamasdebarros5950 os GTE de 11980 tão saindo por 25k, mas os de 70 pra baixo tão subindo que nem foguete
@@Aspen071 Eu acabo acompanhando mais por alguns canais de vendas que colocam uma margem um pouco maior. Acredito que no particular de pra achar alguns anos e modelos por até menos de 25k, mas ai precisa de bastante garimpo, tempo e paciência, além de muito conhecimento sobre o carro para não comprar gato por lebre kkk
Saudades do Puma que meu pai tinha, ver a Donut falando sobre é surreal!
:D
Orgulho de ver a Donut falando da história do BR, nós temos muito pra contribuir, principalmente com as marcas domésticas.
Proud to see Donut talking about Brazil, we have so much to contribute, mainly with domestic brands.
Congrats to Donut Media for all this research. Proud to see the history of a humble Brazilian car maker in such a huge car culture page/channel! Please make an episode about VW SP2, the most beautiful air cooled VW!!!
One of the most powerful versions of the puma was the PUMA GTB, with a 4.0 liter straight six chevy engine (borrowed from the Opala). It was a monster. I almost bought one scrapped to restore.
*4.1
@@hemi1970 Vlw patrão kkkkk Valeu por lembrar
When I saw the thumbnail I couldnt believe it! Thanks Donut I really aprecciate you showing a little bit about our history to the world!
How awesome it is to see a Brazilian story told by Nolan Sykes lol! I have just one correction: the Puma brand is alive, but not properly back at kickin' just yet. They're developing some new stuff focused on racing.
Cheers from Brazil!
I have 21 years and my dream car has been a Puma GT 1974 for a long time now. Puma is a great part of automotive history in Brazil and it is so nice having Donut tell this story to the world
"Puma export to Switzerland"
That's a long ass way
Day 365 of asking James to do an Up to speed on his Dad
Day 1 of supporting pagani boy
meh
Wooo a whole year!
LETSSS GOOO 1 YEAR
Day 132 of supporting PaganiGaming (also happy anniversary mate)
Thank you SO MUCH for talking about such an amazing brand that was the puma. Through my entire childhood there has always been one of these little beasts on the garage
"This is Brazil!!!" - Toretto, Dominic
I always wondered why Mike's two-seater sports car needed six wheels.
For mo traction baby
I wondered the same about the G wagon 6x6
Cuz he drives a Tyrrel six wheeler F1 car
Three words: Six wheel drive.
nice to see MIAU (Museu da Imprensa Automotiva) pics in the show :D
An elderly friend of mine has a Puma that he has been rebuilding for a few years, it some of the most interesting and beautiful cars I’ve ever seen. Thank you for bringing these cars the recognition they deserve
Brasil had many crazy cars back then. Miura, Bianco, Gurgel (they made an electric car in the 80's). Puma also had one model with a chevy six cylinder engine. Great to see part of our automotive history here.
R.I.P Muhammad Ali
1942-2016
:(
The greatest
Rip
Thank you for putting Brazil on the map Donut. Big fan of your work.
Thanks for sharing our Brazilian history. You guys are the best ❤️
God i love when people try to pronounce words in Portuguese 😂
Hey guys, from the brazilian market, we had a brand called Gurgel, this brand also have a very interesting history, too sad it died in the 90's. And as aways a nice vídeo!
Make an Up to Speed about "Gurgel", they were making a certain type of cars before it was something to do
I'm a brazilian car guy born in the 80's. I know Puma but didn't know about this Muhammad Ali story. Thank you!
Donut Media should make a video about the Emme Lotus, the Brazilian company that claimed to be building a Brazilian sedan powered by Lotus in the late 90's. The cars had a design suspiciously similar to the Volvo ECC (S80's concept car) and were powered by the same Lotus engine that was used in one of the Esprit versions. The hype for the cars were high in the country, even with the company sending an unit to a photo event at Monaco.
In the end, Emme simply vanished having made only 13 units of their car, rising tons of conspiracy theories and even doubts if Lotus was really involved with the project or had its name attached to the car without permission.
I had the privilege to see one of this rare cars parked in São Paulo. They do exist!
so good to see a brazilian car being recognized
you should do the competitor of the puma the SP2 from Volkswagen its funky and i love it.
As a Brazilian I fell honored to have a episode on wheelhouse dedicated to our automotive history. Please make an episode on Gurgel, this dude was a visionary! Thanks dudes!
Dude, you guys rocked on this video. I wish I could see more Brazilian versions of major cars presented in the show. Wolks have tons of legendary cars.
hey brazilians fans that likes donut , " e aeee suave ? " - From São Paulo / Sp.
Salveee
🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Salve
suave man
Salveee
Float like a Cadillac and sting like a beemer
lol nice
@Hamza Mansoor I thought it was Lightning
@Hamza Mansoor and you call yourself a fan 😂
For some reason and saw that he “Foght” a car company. Instead of “bought” and I was confused and then got really disappointed not seeing him in the ring with a car.... like in Street fighter level.
I am from Brazil and it is always a joy to see a beautiful and well conserved Puma once in a while..
As a 17 year old Brazilian i really like It!
WELCOME TO BRAZIL
Do el "Torino" argentinian legendary car. Competed on the 24hs of Lemans
Rest In Peace, the greatest boxer in history.
Man I’m from Brazil and knew about the Puma brand. But never heard about Muhamed Ali being involved with it! Wow! Great job Donut! You guys rock! Nolan, you should make an episode about GURGEL, it was another Brazilian brand and they made electric cars before everyone. Also my wife who is not a gear head loves Donut and your funny commercials! You guys are awesome!
I love how he tries to pronounce our company names n shit and it's just, hilarious ( if you know portuguese )
Com certeza foi hilário ahsuahusbsus
"Arua Caruiá"
saou palou em ves de são paulo o que diseste e verdade
FURRY
Here in portugal there was a company here called UMM they made off-roaders and sold pretty well since there's a lot of harsh terrain here in portugal.
But then one day out of the blue it just disappear and now the only thing left is some cool old jeeps owned buy some old men
I’m a Brazilian and actually learned more from this video than years of being a car enthusiast
THERE YOU GO DONUT! I watch this channel before it have 1k subs. Such a proud to see you guys looking outside of US. Brazil have a lot of histories like this to be told. PLEASE! Try the Gurgel history. Me as a brazilian never seen someone telling this history and would be amazing to be you guys that have it done! A huge hug from Brazil, we love your channel.
Fun fact: just like the Puma, the latest Renault Twingo also switched from an FF to RR (RMR) layout
Do a b2b on pre-war straight 8 engines.
Great to see Brazil getting love from Donut Media! I'm Brazilian and didn't even know about that story (Puma cars were great though). The at 5:08 was called Wariant btw! And Al Fasse sounds like Alface, which translates to Lettuce :P
Nolan: "(PUMA) was exporting cars to Canada"
Banner in Portuguese: "Puma exports to Switzerland"
As a Brazilian, I must say that... I’m laughing so hard of the Al Fassi name because, in portuguese, the name sounds like “lettuce” (alface)! LOL
Also, it’s so nice watching one of my fav YT channels talking about my country! Love u, guys!
Viewers, always remember to smash the like button so they can do a face reveal of the Founder of Donut Media 😳
Couldn't you just Google it?
Mr. Media
@@SirBroccolingtonIII all I found on Google was Guy Fawkes masks
if we reach 15 likes we'll have a nolan face reveal
3:10 Just a correction, the engine showed on the image isn't the DKW engine used in the Malzonis. It's the VW one. Brazil loves you, Donut! Thanks a lot for made a video of the Puma.
This is amazing! I'm a Brazilian gearhead and had never Heard about this Muahmmad Ali involvement
Monday @ 18:00 CET every week. Love it.
Mohammed Al Fassi part was pretty wild, i'd pay to see a movie about his eccentric life
As a brasilian, I didn’t know this awesome story. I’m a big fan of Pumas and really wanted to buy one but I thought it would be too crazy to own. Great job, guys.
Imagina ver esses caras fazendo um vídeo sobre o Opala! Seria demais!
You guys always come up with great content, this is history I probably would’ve never learned if I didn’t follow this channel. Keep up the good work!
Donut plz make more videos about Brazilian automotive history.
WOOOOOOOW, bro, I’m buying a puma, a GTS model, I really didn’t expect to see a video about this brand so unknown (even here in Brazil) even more on such a relevant channel Donut Media. Thank you very much for telling part of this story here!
I've known about the existence of the Puma but was taken by surprise of Muhammad Ali's connection, bless him for trying.
VAI BRASIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRIMEIRO O NAUTICO VENCE! AGORA O PUMA NO DONUT
E 13 MEMO
"Sã Palo" kkkkkk
SIM KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Im so glad for this episode. Im Brazilian born in the 80s and i didn´t knew all the details, specialy the M. Ali part. Thanks a lot.
Puma also produced from 1974 to 1987 the GTB, a fiber glass body front engine coupe which was powered by a 6cylinder 250 c.i Chevrolet engine. Was kinda fancy at the time! It's biggest rival was the Santa Matilde SM 4.1, which was powered by the same engine and was fiber made as well. Both great (and expensive) cars at the time!