TRABANT FACTORY🚘(Quality control): Manufacturing - Production line - Zwickau factory🏨(Germany)

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  • QUALITY CHECK {control} of TRABANT [German Plant]. Poland, Hungary & car factory in Zwickau about ASSEMBLY PLANT PROCESS of Trabant. How it was made by employees? Retro video📺with low quality (only that exist)...
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    ✍What happened to the Trabant factory?
    The Zwickau factory in Mosel (where the Trabant was manufactured) was sold to Volkswagen AG; the rest of the company became HQM Sachsenring GmbH. Volkswagen redeveloped the Zwickau factory into a centre for engine production; it also produces some Volkswagen Golfs and Passats.
    ✍How much did a Trabant cost new?
    That is when the last one rolled off the assembly line in Zwickau, Germany. Trabants cost about $8,600 new and were coveted for decades by East Germans. The demand evaporated last fall after Germany's unification. East German motorists suddenly could buy any car they wanted.
    ✍Do people still drive Trabants?
    While Germans are known for their love of luxurious cars, in the eyes of many, the Trabi remains a cult car. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, around 34,500 Trabants were registered in Germany at the beginning of 2019.
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  • @CarManufacturing
    @CarManufacturing  Před 2 lety +71

    Trabant VERSUS Tesla Quality control COMPARSION - HERE - czcams.com/video/ZdE3SxTMnoc/video.html

    • @Mihu24
      @Mihu24 Před rokem +8

      Tucson is not a car...has 0 personality

    • @MrSonofsonof
      @MrSonofsonof Před rokem +3

      Grrrr, another video with a misleading busty thumbnail girl!

    • @marceloacosta6005
      @marceloacosta6005 Před rokem +2

      @@Mihu24 no

    • @raphaelhalfon7247
      @raphaelhalfon7247 Před rokem +1

      En France on avait la 2CV s'était équivalent à la Trabant mais le réservoir était pas dans le moteur.

    • @nemec-777
      @nemec-777 Před rokem +2

      Это же реклама.

  • @ccr7712
    @ccr7712 Před rokem +356

    My grandfather had one of those when I was growing up in Prague, I have the best memories riding in that car with him, it newer broke down on us, always got us to our destination, it doesn’t really matter what car you have, what matters is the people, the memories that you create with them, for me this car is connected with joy and happiness thanks to my grandfather 🍀, Rest In Peace my dear friend you are not forgotten 🙏

    • @damirzanne
      @damirzanne Před rokem +14

      exactly

    • @dukeoflakeshore5805
      @dukeoflakeshore5805 Před rokem

      Falsch. Dieser rollende Schrott war andauernd defekt. Wenn man die Transitautobahn befuhr, stand alle paar km ein Trabbi und musste repariert werden.

    • @ccr7712
      @ccr7712 Před rokem +13

      @@dukeoflakeshore5805 that wasn’t my experience at all, we drove it hundreds of times to our weekend house and back, about 80 km each way and this car always got us there without any problems.
      It was very simple car, with noticeable smell from the exhaust pipe, but we didn’t have any issues with its reliability.

    • @dukeoflakeshore5805
      @dukeoflakeshore5805 Před rokem +3

      @@ccr7712 Which is statistically more significant?

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem

      @@ccr7712 romantic nonsense. Any modern car is way better than your romantic crappy car.
      Why don't Chechia drive Trabant if they were so great?
      Because you have free choice and delivery of what's wanted, not what the communist dictators tried to make available!

  • @jannikhylke1511
    @jannikhylke1511 Před rokem +146

    I love the way he kicks the grill to make the hood fit😂

    • @hessuhopo100
      @hessuhopo100 Před rokem +6

      🤣🤣👍👍

    • @randylahey1232
      @randylahey1232 Před rokem +7

      Me too after watching this and how they where made just makes me want a Trabant even more then before.....put it in H🤣🤣🤣

    • @seanconnolly7386
      @seanconnolly7386 Před rokem +8

      This makes the hood fit the grill and then the car fits the hood then the windows fit the body "it's technical"

    • @guido704u
      @guido704u Před 10 měsíci +2

      He was hired at GM after Trabi closed!!!

    • @gyurxi551
      @gyurxi551 Před 8 měsíci +3

      And at 1:10 the gesture "whatever". 😆

  • @frieden9553
    @frieden9553 Před rokem +32

    Was ein tolles Video. Der Trabant war 1986 mein erstes Auto, habe ihn nagelneu auf einem Automarkt gekauft. Vor einigen Jahren habe ich mir wieder einen gekauft aus dem Baujahr 1989, er steht in der Garage und wird nur noch bei Sonnenschein bewegt. Mein ganzer Stolz, er ist original und das seit 33 Jahren!

  • @bogdand5836
    @bogdand5836 Před 8 měsíci +59

    Ręczna robota, prawie jak Rolls Royce ;)

    • @serdarsoydan8772
      @serdarsoydan8772 Před 7 měsíci +2

      El ve ayak

    • @garikporter
      @garikporter Před 6 měsíci

      Это лучший автомобиль в истории человечества, просто произведение искусства! А приз за самый медленный автомобиль в истории, получает польский "Полонез"!

  • @Gavrosh-rnd
    @Gavrosh-rnd Před rokem +10

    Вот это я понимаю ручная ножная сборка. 👍💯 Класс. 👍💯

  • @karlmartell9279
    @karlmartell9279 Před rokem +608

    Because of the perfect quality controls, it took them 15 years before the vehicle could be delivered. :))

  • @GeneralChangOfDanang
    @GeneralChangOfDanang Před 9 měsíci +4

    I was amazed at the level of PPE provided...right up until I saw the paint booth lol.

  • @jack6539
    @jack6539 Před rokem +438

    My father worked on some Belarus tractors which were sent to nz when the USSR couldn't pay their wool bill. The farmers loved those tractors. As dad put it - there was nothing you couldn't fix with a sledge hammer or a welding torch - ideal for farmers. Dad also got a verbatim transcript of the manual which was hilarious with messages like " comrades are reminded that the water holder is not to be used for holding vodka. And citizens are reminded that adjusting the radio to listen to Western radio stations is forbidden.

    • @rambowski2879
      @rambowski2879 Před rokem +18

      Lol, can you tell more about it?

    • @SurajSinghTomarArya
      @SurajSinghTomarArya Před rokem +29

      Soviet-Belarus tractors were also exported to India and are very popular to this day. Indian company Mahindra has become largest tractor company of world though.

    • @jack6539
      @jack6539 Před rokem +15

      @@rambowski2879 just that they were 1950s technology and built like a brick shithouse.

    • @maxfalconi6995
      @maxfalconi6995 Před rokem +8

      That's a cool story

    • @lasskinn474
      @lasskinn474 Před rokem +4

      @@jack6539 but had a radio? Not open sit zetors?

  • @laurentiupacioglu6555
    @laurentiupacioglu6555 Před rokem +25

    In romania we had a joke about trabant:trabant is the longest car in the world:2 meters plastic+ 7 meters smoke from the car engine

  • @HuldraX.
    @HuldraX. Před rokem +11

    I bought one of the early 2 stroke versions for 2 cases of beer while studying in Budapest in the 90's. Super fun to drive and perfect for a starving student! Wonderful city cars and on summer tyres walked around stuck SUV's in the snow! Miss the little monster!

  • @fubartotale3389
    @fubartotale3389 Před rokem +20

    Nothing like a fine German automobile, the pinnacle of of engineering and craftsmanship!

  • @Avilaspb
    @Avilaspb Před rokem +129

    Погодите ржать. Мне кажется, - времена таких автомобилей возвращаются.

    • @nikolajgrebenjuk4651
      @nikolajgrebenjuk4651 Před rokem +9

      Скоро из доширака будут клепать!😁

    • @Avilaspb
      @Avilaspb Před rokem +3

      @@nikolajgrebenjuk4651 экий Вы расточительный!

    • @dimvd
      @dimvd Před rokem +35

      только возвращаются не в мире, в РФ

    • @user-ls4qn1lp4v
      @user-ls4qn1lp4v Před rokem +15

      А чего ржать, они попали под советскую зону влияния, в фрг машины были другие.

    • @user-be6sf4mz3f
      @user-be6sf4mz3f Před rokem +7

      @@user-ls4qn1lp4v абсолютно верно. В ГДР Жигули были за счастье. Ну а Волга- только для олигархов.

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven572 Před rokem +41

    I remember the old joke..
    Its 3rd January 1965.
    Salesman " We have your order and can confirm you will get delivery on 14th February 1978."
    Customer "Will that be in the morning or afternoon, because I've got the plumber coming in the morning".

  • @BenMr77
    @BenMr77 Před rokem +26

    In my eyes and certainly also in others: Very impressed over the whole production lines with advance machines and "robots" 🚗

    • @HECKAKYH-ADEKBATEH
      @HECKAKYH-ADEKBATEH Před rokem

      Using slaves is US/GB thing, soviet people had a lot of real rights and social securities.

    • @adrian.farcas
      @adrian.farcas Před rokem +2

      There is actually a Kuka robot at 9:50-10:00 that does some welding. Same brand of robots used today in Tesla factories :)

    •  Před rokem

      Done by communists in the eighties. Pretty remarkable.

    • @Balrog2005
      @Balrog2005 Před 9 měsíci

      @@HECKAKYH-ADEKBATEH Yeah the right to shut up, don't move from the country and accept any State requirement, or in reality the Party's will...great. Hope you can go to China soon and live the dream.

  • @bombardier2011
    @bombardier2011 Před 10 měsíci +4

    Trabant was ahead of its time. Just love it.

  • @damirzanne
    @damirzanne Před rokem +78

    as a kid growing up in Yugoslavia, I’ve seen , and later owned all kinds of Wartburgs, Zastavas etc … I have to say we had a shit load of fun and couldn’t care less what brand of car we were driving … I have some awesome happy memories thanks to those cars … some people may feel sorry for us , but I wouldn’t change a thing if I could go back … it was a happy , worry free childhood … which I can’t really say for this kids growing up now days …

    • @vueport99
      @vueport99 Před rokem +10

      And you can repair it yourself with simple tools.... Unless you need to replace a part

    • @12123188
      @12123188 Před rokem +5

      Why would some feel sorry for us? We made Opels, Citroëns and VW's. We could also import cars if we had the money and there were people who had plenty of it. There was literally no reason for anybody to feel sorry for Yugoslavs.

    • @Lazar532
      @Lazar532 Před rokem +3

      @@12123188
      100% RIGHT!!!
      👏💪❤️🇷🇸🇭🇷🇲🇪🇧🇦🇲🇰🇸🇮
      ..би га, нема застава Југе 😹

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem

      Romantic nonsense! How many children were forced to live with their parents being harassed by a dictatorship?
      Today you can voice your opinion and still live in peace. You can influence your society, which was impossible and often dangerous those days!

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem

      @@vueport99 then why aren't half the world driving that crap?
      Because it was worthless!

  • @valicourt
    @valicourt Před rokem +16

    I had to wait 5 years even to be able to watch this video!

  • @user-fu7dt5to1y
    @user-fu7dt5to1y Před rokem +7

    Читаю комментарии, какие добрые чувства и воспоминания вызывает этот простой, и судя по отзывам надёжный автомобиль. Добрые воспоминания ушедшей эпохи.

  • @rus1007
    @rus1007 Před rokem +8

    Интересная подгонка деталей, видел такую же на АЗЛК в 1993 году и ужаснулся, автомобили на конвейере были уже ржавые, крыша текла.

    • @user-du5tl6yp4x
      @user-du5tl6yp4x Před rokem +6

      Я думаю что наш сегодняшний автопром собирается точно так же!

  • @duduh83
    @duduh83 Před rokem +32

    Vídeo nostálgico! Fico a pensar, tantos funcionários na época com suas famílias a sustentar. Muitos deles já partiram desse mundo e nem estão mais entre nós.

  • @vulgivagu
    @vulgivagu Před rokem +323

    Here in the UK British Leyland did this years ago. They also left bodywork in field to rust before final assembly. Wonderful times

    • @trainskitsetc
      @trainskitsetc Před rokem +7

      And they want to bring production back out of national pride... quite

    • @roseaneeasculturasdomundo8765
      @roseaneeasculturasdomundo8765 Před rokem +20

      Here in Brazil we have plenty of those Trabants. Thei are able to go from the Amazon Jungle to Copacabana Beach in about 3 hours in very harsh terrain conditions.

    • @peterl3417
      @peterl3417 Před rokem +14

      @Thomas (Thomas) The panel gaps on Tesla and interior solidity is 10x worse than in my brother’s Jetta 🤔

    • @awesomnality
      @awesomnality Před rokem +7

      What rust, I thought the body is made out of some cardboard material. There's a movie "Black cat, white cat" in the beginning of it there's a pig that started eating a trabant, by the end of the movie the car was almost finished 😁

    • @johniksushibar165
      @johniksushibar165 Před rokem +23

      @@peterl3417 there are three man made items visible from space, the great wall of china, trabant panel gaps and land rover panel gaps

  • @lrg3834
    @lrg3834 Před rokem +172

    Some may laugh at something like this in the West, but truth is, any nation that can manufacture a basic car all by itself is fairly advanced. Look at all the countries that are unable to do the same thing.

    • @CarManufacturing
      @CarManufacturing  Před rokem +16

      Exactly! Good point L R G... Romania (Dacia), Czechia (Skoda) etc... it is so good for their economic situation

    • @wageslave387
      @wageslave387 Před rokem +4

      Nowadays with cheap Chinese industrial equipment, any country can easily do it. Even countries like Vietnam is churning out cars that match those of western countries. The new VinFast looks shockingly polished.

    • @lrg3834
      @lrg3834 Před rokem +26

      @@wageslave387 , I respectfully disagree. It's not easy. Countries like China and Vietnam got a LOT of help from westerners/Japan.
      Incidentally, it was the British who taught the Japanese how to build cars. They didn't just hop off their horses and begin churning cars out all by themselves. They were good students, though, and eventually bested their teacher in the low-end/intermediate segments.

    • @Aleksandr74798
      @Aleksandr74798 Před rokem +2

      Россия сейчас делает автомобили так что англичанам и не снилось. Дороговато но наш русский Бентли!))

    • @sc1338
      @sc1338 Před rokem +4

      @@lrg3834 it was actually the Americans that taught japan how to build cars. They also taught them how to use quality control standards. They used to be terrible. Only the US occupied japan. Or are you talking about Britain helping prewar?

  • @JL-yg8gl
    @JL-yg8gl Před rokem +45

    The banging, squeezing, pushing, pulling and tapping is not abnormal. It is done in most assembly plants, be they soviet or western. Only difference is that it is usually done before paint. If done after paint it is not a problem has paint remains flexible for quite a time after application.

    • @Ooorky
      @Ooorky Před 8 měsíci

      Trabant doesn't had traditional paint, the outer part was made out of colored plastic.

    • @jimsmalleimb7709
      @jimsmalleimb7709 Před 8 měsíci +4

      That's absolutely not true. I've been in assembly plants, both Volvo and GM in Oshawa. They never beat on a car that's being assembled to "adjust" it.

    • @Ascania
      @Ascania Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@Ooorky Incorrect. The body panels were painted, just like on other cars. Unpainted ones are a reddish brown colour, which you could often see on Trabants that had to have a panel replaced and were driving around with the unpainted body panel until they got an appointment with a paint shop.

    • @user-zt5sj2bu4z
      @user-zt5sj2bu4z Před 8 měsíci +1

      Muy cierto erto

    • @fl646
      @fl646 Před 6 měsíci

      💯

  • @jaGenau161
    @jaGenau161 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Das der Trabbi immer noch produziert wird, freut mich als Ossi natürlich ganz besonders. Und dass der West-Mainstream erkannt hat, was ein gutes Auto ist. 😂👍

  • @user-sn5tx6rh4h
    @user-sn5tx6rh4h Před rokem +12

    Молодцы немцы из ГДР♥️

    • @user-sb1hi7zf8t
      @user-sb1hi7zf8t Před rokem +1

      СЛУЖИЛ В ЗГВ 91.92Г СРОЧКУ ,НЕМЦЫ ,ЗО ГУД РЕБЯТА, ВСЁ БЫЛО ПУТЁМ :)

    • @user-ei6gz2nq3d
      @user-ei6gz2nq3d Před rokem +1

      Знали у кого учится!!!!

    • @ratcatcher2402
      @ratcatcher2402 Před rokem +2

      Как отличить расеянца от человека в комментах? По глупости, которая из него вываливается. Да, Ололёшенька?

  • @peterhall6656
    @peterhall6656 Před rokem +49

    I know an Hungarian man (much younger than I am ) whose parents owned a Trabant. It had a door "repaitred" but a sheet of painted chipboard. The car broke down in the rain one day and a goat came from nowhere and started chewing on the door. He said it was the ultimate humiliation!

    • @cassiemontgomery45
      @cassiemontgomery45 Před rokem +3

      I'm very sorry for the poor gentleman who had to deal with that, but what a great story for, uh, down the road! I'm sold on one of these. They seem very interesting. What I drive is not so dissimilar......a 2007 Toyota Scion, it is shaped like a box and has shorts in the electrical work. I just tell people I have gremlins!

    • @car4367
      @car4367 Před rokem +1

      @@cassiemontgomery45 Toyota svion? You mean Scion xB?

    • @mrarivv0007
      @mrarivv0007 Před rokem

      @@car4367 Scion is Toyota... 🤯 Scion FRS, Toyota 86... Same with Lexus.

    • @cassiemontgomery45
      @cassiemontgomery45 Před rokem +1

      @@car4367 That's right! I forgot the XB part:)

    • @car4367
      @car4367 Před rokem

      @@mrarivv0007 Yeah I know that. I just meant Scion isn’t a model name lol. I was tryna ask which Scion xB FR-S etc

  • @user-xv1gv9qt6u
    @user-xv1gv9qt6u Před rokem +34

    А все таки это были своеобразные мастера,они знали как всё исправить одной ногой и молотком,сейчас таких специалистов не найти,только роботы,инструмент и техника 😃

    • @user-kr2dz6eo1w
      @user-kr2dz6eo1w Před 8 měsíci

      рассуждения неграмотного.на современной машине,молотком ничего полезного не сделаешь.

    • @user-xv1gv9qt6u
      @user-xv1gv9qt6u Před 8 měsíci +1

      не пиши про себя,зачем так падать духом😉😃

    • @user-kr2dz6eo1w
      @user-kr2dz6eo1w Před 8 měsíci

      @@user-xv1gv9qt6u убогий? или о чем?

  • @denjhill
    @denjhill Před rokem +17

    I've done my share of restoration work on 1950's American cars. I came to believe the assembly men were issued two tools: a hammer and a crowbar. Trabant must have learned their techniques from us.

    • @user-ry2fb6bi9x
      @user-ry2fb6bi9x Před 6 měsíci

      Так збирають на росії і сьогодні

  • @SiamWoodShop
    @SiamWoodShop Před rokem +79

    This is as close to hade made as you get.The factory rectification department (opening sequences)reminds me of my days in the trade during the '60s and '70s. Pull it, twist it, and not forgetting the old wood in the door adjuster. Happy days.

    • @d.t.6060
      @d.t.6060 Před rokem +13

      The Chevrolet Chevette used to come off of the line to finl fit, and they'd beat on em like a redhead stepcild on a Friday payday.. Shutting wood on the lower sills, twisting the actual door in the body to panel fit. And to think the guy on the blue trab, he's done 40- 50 in the past hour, (The Chevette ran one off the line a minute) just by feel he pops the hood latch because he KNOWS it will need a little tweakin. Motion Repeat. Also impressed with the wheel installer. Grabs two, Tosses on about halfway mid car, bounces the tire while lining up the lugs... Stands, grabs the second tire, and just as easily pops it up on the hub..... LOVE IT!!!!

    • @tedecker3792
      @tedecker3792 Před rokem +1

      Pontiac factory had a big wooden 4x4 used to tweak the front clip into place (1970s).

  • @user-vv6lx7pl8h
    @user-vv6lx7pl8h Před rokem +19

    Наши отечественные автомобили собираются и сегодня по этой технологии при сборке)) У каждой смены зазоры разные)

    • @user-fx3nd7xh4n
      @user-fx3nd7xh4n Před rokem

      Интересно они у нас научились так делать

    • @user-vv9yv1bh1s
      @user-vv9yv1bh1s Před rokem +2

      Вот где учились наши собирать авто

  • @hinREISEND_Ausflugstipps
    @hinREISEND_Ausflugstipps Před 8 měsíci +1

    Danke für den spannenden Einblick! 😍 Wir haben vor kurzem auf der Rennstrecke in Oschersleben einen Trabi 601 und eine Corvette C8 gegeneinander antreten lassen. Das war sooo spannend! 🤯🎉

  • @user-ge9kn6jk6m
    @user-ge9kn6jk6m Před rokem +5

    Как красиво.Ручная сборка,ручная работа.Это же великолепно.

    • @user-gr8yt6iy7k
      @user-gr8yt6iy7k Před rokem

      Ну если криво собрали толку там колотить лучше сразу в утиль.

    • @AndronKoncheglazov
      @AndronKoncheglazov Před 9 měsíci

      9:46 - сварочный робот

  • @csanadbarczy9153
    @csanadbarczy9153 Před rokem +139

    Forget the pyramids, Trabant is an engineering marvel unmatched for the last 12,000 years 🤣🤪🥳 we had one in the 80's and they were very easy to work on. I remember my father was estimating how much we had in the tank since there was no gas gage. Looking back now I have great memories with that car. There wasn't a road that it couldn't handle.

    • @lutzweinschenk2471
      @lutzweinschenk2471 Před rokem +12

      Your dad hasn't read the manual...there was a dipstick, mostly pinched in the insulation under the bonnet, to measure the level in the tank. Unbelievable today 😄

    • @csanadbarczy9153
      @csanadbarczy9153 Před rokem +3

      @@lutzweinschenk2471 I know that but still had to open the bonett

    • @douglasgault5458
      @douglasgault5458 Před rokem +2

      I dont think my uncle ever took his to a shop. And Crazy, no fn gas gage. He always carred around 2 extra gallons. Great car for the area he lived in. You needed a beater on his home road.

    • @mansonnanson8294
      @mansonnanson8294 Před rokem +3

      All except tarmac.... It dies on tarmac!

    • @csanadbarczy9153
      @csanadbarczy9153 Před rokem +2

      @@mansonnanson8294 and it can take a 90 degree turn at 60km/h. It was a miracle it didn't flip over😆

  • @Arczifreak
    @Arczifreak Před rokem +149

    Pięknie pasowane stopami!👍🙏

  • @LaurenStone-bc5wr
    @LaurenStone-bc5wr Před rokem +2

    My father had one of these cars. Driving in the winter the gas froze and we were stranded. Until a tracker gave us a ride home. Good times!

  • @vorosjanos77
    @vorosjanos77 Před rokem +2

    my uncle had one. He loved it. When he had another car next to him, he didn't want to sell it either, he only went fishing with it... Half the weight of a normal car, he drove it in mud and slush, it was undemanding and indestructible. It could be repaired for pennies... Back then. Today, the few remaining copies are at a horror price. Even demolition escapes are expensive!

  • @Brando887
    @Brando887 Před rokem +23

    Love the old foot on the grille method of shaping the vehicle haha

  • @evaklegrova8639
    @evaklegrova8639 Před 2 lety +24

    Some of the most interesting cars😁😁

  • @PaulinesPastimes
    @PaulinesPastimes Před rokem +4

    It may have been a car in need of big mechanical improvements but it looks so cute! I think the styling is wonderful, both the saloon and combi.

  • @o.ko.k7550
    @o.ko.k7550 Před 8 měsíci +2

    was für eine Produktion mit Fusstritte und hammer und Hand mit ziehen wahnsinn ! Mi Metallhanmmer überall drauf schlagen bein einem fertig lackiertem Auto !

  • @ap4709pk
    @ap4709pk Před rokem +151

    This is where GM learned quality control. 😄😄

    • @spammerscammer
      @spammerscammer Před rokem +7

      Shit GM has more quality in their bathrooms than this company has ever even dreamed of. You sound jealous.

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 Před rokem +28

      Trabant probably better built than todays GM cars

    • @furtim1
      @furtim1 Před rokem +10

      @@fidelcatsro6948 Cute, but you know that ain't so.

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 Před rokem +2

      @@furtim1 of cos im cute 🐱👍🏿

    • @JohnSmith-rw8uh
      @JohnSmith-rw8uh Před rokem +1

      @@spammerscammer than japanese crap cars , not GM

  • @ianhotson6057
    @ianhotson6057 Před rokem +28

    Now that is some fine Rolls-Royce quality vehicle, I love how they do the quality control before it leaves the factory LOL

  • @Chris80
    @Chris80 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Am Anfang der Produktion 1957 war der Trabant kein schlechtes Auto. In Westdeutschland wurde gleichzeitig der DKW Junior und der NSU Prinz produziert. DAS Problem des Trabbi war, daß er einfach immer weiter produziert wurde und so 1991 der Konkurrenz nur noch ein müdes Lächeln abringen konnte.

  • @rickmsc5130
    @rickmsc5130 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I like how the worker smashed the door in 😂

  • @angelguardian6227
    @angelguardian6227 Před rokem +36

    В 90е рассекал на таком по Польше.120 это коробочка на ура.Расход 4,5 но сотню заправок с замесом масла специально для них хватало.И спал в ней и передвигался,смотрю сейчас ностальгия).Молодость

    • @user-yw2ns2ms2y
      @user-yw2ns2ms2y Před rokem +2

      Пи

    • @user-yw2ns2ms2y
      @user-yw2ns2ms2y Před rokem +2

      Зд

    • @user-yw2ns2ms2y
      @user-yw2ns2ms2y Před rokem +2

      Обол

    • @Skaivoker61
      @Skaivoker61 Před rokem +4

      Не гони фуфло,у них расход был не меньше десяти литров.

    • @hansmuller7122
      @hansmuller7122 Před rokem +6

      Это херота Макс 90 ехала .и при этом уже пыталась взлететь
      А в общем на них под 70 ездили

  • @dmitriyp6056
    @dmitriyp6056 Před rokem +23

    When Soviet army withdraw from Germany and it unify there in DDR were a lot of Trabant cars. The owners wanted to rid of them, but no were accepted them. So they went driving with them to Poland, then left them in the forest and went back by train. When Polish authority saw that, stop them entering in Poland by such cars.

    • @therzook
      @therzook Před rokem +4

      In poland we used to take them for a spin and then burn them, good times when I was teenager

  • @GPBX01B
    @GPBX01B Před rokem +3

    Excellent rare footage! Thanks so much for the upload.

  • @Deutschland2197
    @Deutschland2197 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Das ist "Qualität". Mit den Füßen den Grill zurecht drücken damit die Motorhaube schließt echte "Handarbeit" eben 😂. Dennoch der Trabant ist Kult ! Zum Glück gibt's noch viele die den Trabant fahren und erhalten.

  • @andreim841
    @andreim841 Před rokem +133

    Thank you for bringing back memories from the 80's. The nickname we had for Traby in my neck of the woods was "The road shark". As simple and unrefined as they made them, they got the job done for a lot of folks in the Eastern Block and to be honest I have seen them go places that would probably destroy a Land Rover Defender

    • @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039
      @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 Před rokem +28

      The running joke in my time was. How do you double the price of a traby? Fill the petrol tank.

    • @kinotheidiot
      @kinotheidiot Před rokem +25

      Note that english is my second language, please overlook any grammatical problems or typos.
      We Hungarians nicknamed it "papírjaguár", or "paper jaguar". Some smart folk also called them "toilet seat" because the body panels were made out of polymer, which was mainly used to make, you guessed it, toilet seats.

    • @iga279
      @iga279 Před rokem

      But if you crashed you were as good as dead

    • @Kreuzrippengewoelbe
      @Kreuzrippengewoelbe Před rokem +17

      @@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 How many workers do you need to build a Trabi? Two. One is folding the other one is gluing.

    • @halitosis75
      @halitosis75 Před rokem +1

      And poisoned the planet

  • @martincarroll8637
    @martincarroll8637 Před rokem +41

    Precision engineering at it’s finest.

    • @mariuszbernas8436
      @mariuszbernas8436 Před rokem +3

      Trabant innovative and well-made like Tesla.

    • @jan22150
      @jan22150 Před rokem +3

      I don't think Mercedes Benz would hire any of these Trabant workers.

    • @MilanDrazic
      @MilanDrazic Před rokem +1

      nothing can replace a man. internal stress is complex to calculate. unfortunately my Trabant was eaten by a pig.

    • @spammerscammer
      @spammerscammer Před rokem +1

      @@mariuszbernas8436 Tesla has more quality in there door handles than this car ever had. Lol

    • @user-dt5iv5yi5b
      @user-dt5iv5yi5b Před 8 měsíci

      @@spammerscammer Not even Close, after 10 years, a Tesla goes directly into the junkyard

  • @user-gj1fx6qu5c
    @user-gj1fx6qu5c Před rokem +1

    Автомобиль лейтенанта Коломбо..) Сразу узнал этот шедевр..)) 👍

  • @teplonews7837
    @teplonews7837 Před 9 měsíci

    Уникальное видео.Родственник служил в ГДР рассказывал про эти машины.Спасибо теперь увидел.

  • @neriozulberti1492
    @neriozulberti1492 Před rokem +15

    The only car that you make tuning with an hammer 😄

  • @PaddyPatrone
    @PaddyPatrone Před rokem +11

    A friend of mine had a trabant for a couple of years. Driving in it was crazy. Felt like a gocart. It was a death trap

  • @user-bd3rc3rh4r
    @user-bd3rc3rh4r Před rokem

    Руки оторвать этим специалистам.

  • @grahamcannell9692
    @grahamcannell9692 Před rokem

    My 1988 601 is still my favourite car to drive. Any trip in it and I get out with a smile on my face.

  • @user-wb1qf3hn6h
    @user-wb1qf3hn6h Před rokem +5

    突っ込み処は多いですが、過去の事を参考に改善するヒントや閃きが見え隠れしていますね。
    何事も「当たり前」で片付けるより、原点回帰して違和感を探って改善を何通りも出してゆく。
    そうすると現在の世の中でも改善できる事が沢山出てきます。

    • @stanislavzaremba3445
      @stanislavzaremba3445 Před rokem

      Что это за поебистические каракули нахер!!

  • @armandsauciuc
    @armandsauciuc Před rokem +38

    Trabant the longest limousine in the world. 3.3 meters of car, 10 meters of smoke.

    • @operator91210
      @operator91210 Před rokem +1

      Excellent tool to use on the farm to get rid of the bugs!

  • @jekooisok1924
    @jekooisok1924 Před 7 měsíci +1

    A little persuasion haha love it

  • @user-hc4jd5eq1z
    @user-hc4jd5eq1z Před 11 měsíci

    素晴らしい車を作る、素晴らしい工員ですね。品質の高い車を作るには、足も使う質の高い工員が必要です。生産性が高く、壊れにくい「名車トラバント」は、こうして生産され出荷される工場を今日は見学しました。素晴らしい映像、ありがとう。

  • @vitosanto3874
    @vitosanto3874 Před rokem +8

    I worked three years in the Chevrolet Plant ,Tarrytown N.Y. 1957 - 1960 the Chevy line appeared to be moving much faster, the average was 63 cars an hour. One of my operations was installing rear shock absorbers, Average 1,000 per shift 2 Shocks per car @ 500 cars per shift. I slept like the dead at night. The pay was good.

    • @Alex.Vlasov..
      @Alex.Vlasov.. Před rokem +3

      Хорошо тебя эксплуатировали капиталисты.

    • @edprus549
      @edprus549 Před rokem

      @@Alex.Vlasov.. они теперь его гендер будут эксплуатировать в задний проход.

    • @jeremiahbrown5826
      @jeremiahbrown5826 Před rokem

      @@Alex.Vlasov.. We don't have a choice.

  • @eletricapossebon4251
    @eletricapossebon4251 Před rokem +12

    Gostei do jeitinho de regular a porta

  • @alanhesketh9265
    @alanhesketh9265 Před 7 měsíci

    Fascinating video. I bet they were great fun to drive,

  • @enedenedubedene4811
    @enedenedubedene4811 Před rokem

    Industrieroboter "KUKA" aus Westdeutschland 😀😀😀😀.Und dann den Trabi mit Rechtslenkung!! Toller Beitrag.!

  • @martindworak
    @martindworak Před rokem +46

    I remember in Poland (I was a kid) my dad and everyone else called this thing the “soap box” because of what it was made from.

    • @Adrian-bb1bh
      @Adrian-bb1bh Před rokem +9

      In România, when we were kids and saw an old rusty car no matter what brand, we said: Look, a trabant.

    • @gwr4fun
      @gwr4fun Před rokem

      @@Adrian-bb1bh nu era trabantul mai ieftin decât o dacie? Și dacă dacia costa 70.000 lei și un dolar era 21 de lei rezulta ca Dacia 1310 costa circa 3500 de dolari. Atunci cum costa amărâtul de trabant 8500 de dolari așa cum scrie în titlul filmării? Hmm...

  • @lyimoej7198
    @lyimoej7198 Před rokem +90

    Back in time when machines were simple and usable in harsh conditions

    • @CarManufacturing
      @CarManufacturing  Před rokem +10

      Yeah... golden times :(

    • @dusanxy4664
      @dusanxy4664 Před rokem +7

      @@CarManufacturing you are little bit out of reality... todays the first of best selling car is.....yessss Renaut/Dacia Duster.... usable car for real life, oooof where is Land Rover Defender due to imbecille EU green regulation....Go LADA NIVA Go

    • @cmte.brazinazzo2061
      @cmte.brazinazzo2061 Před rokem +4

      Not this Trabant crap. Copy part project compilations from FIAT, Morris and others...

    • @jaripynnnen7400
      @jaripynnnen7400 Před rokem

      We are soon coming back to something like Trabant. Plans in Russia are already complete. Those Putin stars will shine with quality. Its almost impossible to think what they have in plans in Russia. Im thinking Russian people if they really want back to soviet time?

    • @cee5212
      @cee5212 Před rokem +4

      Helps when the engine underneath is closer to a sewing machine than a car 😂

  • @SmorodinovyMors
    @SmorodinovyMors Před rokem +1

    Просто массовое производство. Это нормально. Качество машины зависит кругло говоря от двух человек: от конструктора и того, кто может своим воровством или властью навредить производству, т.е поставить плохой материал или заставить "давать план".
    Противоположность - для богатых гундосов. Краска цвета редкого вида кактусов, вставочка из редкой полированной щепочки и т.д. Чтобы было на что самоудовлетворением заниматься, представляя свою важность и уникальность ))

  • @Plisnensis
    @Plisnensis Před 10 měsíci

    Greetings from Zwickau 🇩🇪

  • @30andi
    @30andi Před rokem +24

    Nice car 😘 My father had a sky blue car Trabant 601

    • @palhorvath3928
      @palhorvath3928 Před rokem +2

      We are had trabant,after a big step,zaporozsec 968a and moskvich iz (van)

  • @Paravantos
    @Paravantos Před rokem +18

    I like the “laser”panel gap adjusting process

    • @jazzydave8453
      @jazzydave8453 Před rokem +1

      Yes you needed to I have long arms be able to pull the two wings in

  • @stephenlaw9886
    @stephenlaw9886 Před 8 měsíci

    Reminds me of dad thumping the top of the black and white telly to stop the picture jumping. Simpler times indeed.

  • @BITTYBOY121
    @BITTYBOY121 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Such shoddy workmanship ! tut tut tut.

  • @BiIlyBones
    @BiIlyBones Před rokem +168

    У меня у одного не вызывает вопросов, почему решётку и капот гнут ногами? Они же из композитных материалов сделаны и скорее всего деформируются. Это же практически будущее, простой и надёжный автомобиль для езды, с возможностью починить в любом сервисе даже сельском, молотком и нецензурным словом.

    • @flappingflight8537
      @flappingflight8537 Před rokem +12

      Только внешние поверхности капотов, крыля , ворот и крышу были из композитов, все остальное было из метала, включая решётки. Композитные панели были при том довольно толстыми, толщина была где-то в районе 5-6мм и поэтому не были очень лёгкие. Рама на которая всё закреплено/ приклеено сделана из деталей из прессованной жести которые собирали сваркой.

    • @OstryPerec
      @OstryPerec Před rokem +10

      Honda Civic 98 года не ломается в любых условиях (даже сельских). Проходит там где застревает уаз (и это при просвете 110 мм). Зверь машина!

    • @spiderlord6203
      @spiderlord6203 Před rokem +1

      @@OstryPerec , конечно,у меня была такая в начале 2000

    • @user-rn9gb7hz4l
      @user-rn9gb7hz4l Před rokem +2

      Зато не кузов не ржавеет...

    • @konstantinusov2812
      @konstantinusov2812 Před rokem +2

      Рама металлическая.

  • @Favorit.-1
    @Favorit.-1 Před rokem +5

    Теперь понятно от куда пошла подгонка ваз, газ, уаз. 😝 🤣 😜

  • @roysmemorylane
    @roysmemorylane Před rokem +2

    A simple, reliable car perfect for the times! We in the West never gave the GDR enough credit.

  • @nlpnt
    @nlpnt Před 9 měsíci +1

    No joke, turning the unibodies upside down so that workers installing the suspensions didn't have to work over their heads in an inspection pit was truly advanced for when the line was laid out in the '50s.

  • @eyupmotan6864
    @eyupmotan6864 Před rokem +4

    Perfect! All you need is a rubber mallet to build this little wonder! I got one in the basement, production begins tomorrow. I am taking orders already!

  • @parazels83
    @parazels83 Před rokem +8

    I miss vintage cars, because they had no bulky plastic parts on doors, roof, front panel etc. Seats also were flat.
    Thus vintage cars felt more spacious inside.

    • @elektrofumigator
      @elektrofumigator Před rokem

      Ironic, Trabant has most of the body panels made of plastic, including doors.

  • @LongNguyen-qw2fq
    @LongNguyen-qw2fq Před rokem +1

    mỗi lần xem lại thấy nhớ một thời làm bên sơn ở nhà máy này tôi ở zwichkau

  • @plamentzakov2311
    @plamentzakov2311 Před rokem

    The way they do,.....i just Love it

  • @Klaatu-gl7jg
    @Klaatu-gl7jg Před rokem +33

    A "car" made by the best economy in the Eastern bloc 😀 Quality control that makes the Japanese green with envy 😀

    • @tomaszjasinski2411
      @tomaszjasinski2411 Před rokem +1

      Best Economy? Buhahaha. This is BS.

    • @PanProper
      @PanProper Před rokem +1

      The Japanese were green with envy because Trabant did not rust... 🤭

    • @nigden1
      @nigden1 Před rokem

      @@tomaszjasinski2411 This topic is like the Twilight zone, which asylum let them out?

    • @Klaatu-gl7jg
      @Klaatu-gl7jg Před rokem

      @@PanProper Kind of cheap plastic

    • @elsafrei
      @elsafrei Před rokem

      Pâlir les japonais , alors les français sont tellement pales qu'ils sont transparents.🤣

  • @lukei6255
    @lukei6255 Před rokem +3

    People make jokes about eastern European cars but at the same time admire them today. They are certainly becoming collectibles for their originality and sometimes funny innovations. They were unlike western same-same cars very unique.

    • @astella3
      @astella3 Před rokem

      They make jokes because they can't beat the quality!!!

  • @user-cd7mw6zb6j
    @user-cd7mw6zb6j Před rokem +1

    "Мастер" который в начале ролика подгоняет дверь и капот, явно приехал из СССР

  • @v.k.8348
    @v.k.8348 Před rokem +3

    Das Erstellen der Spaltmaße an der Karosserie ist fenominal 😂👍

  • @grzegorzkowalczyk413
    @grzegorzkowalczyk413 Před rokem +73

    Artyści w swoim fachu

    • @piotryczek9114
      @piotryczek9114 Před rokem +10

      Na tamtejsze czasy to istne rękodzieło 😉👍

    • @ChrisDeBoar
      @ChrisDeBoar Před rokem +5

      Rękodzieło i buto-dzielo 😄

    • @krystianskowronski5594
      @krystianskowronski5594 Před 9 měsíci

      Oczywiście, że artyści! Kto dziś potrafi poskładać samochód przy pomocy stóp? Widziałem obrazy malowane stopami, ale auta robione stopami?! Takie rzeczy możliwe były tylko w socjalizmie.

  • @user-vm5pd6hn3s
    @user-vm5pd6hn3s Před rokem +8

    а у нас в России до сих пор так делают ))

  • @user-wf8pr2yu1y
    @user-wf8pr2yu1y Před rokem

    ドアのチリ合わせを新車の製造工程でやるのは驚きました。
    職人技が素晴らしいです👍

  • @dmordvinov555
    @dmordvinov555 Před 6 měsíci

    Вот он социализм во всей красе. покажите это видео СССР фанатам

  • @bernardlaus9996
    @bernardlaus9996 Před rokem +9

    People need a vehicle to go from A to B. Basic, cheap, easy to fix and undestructible. Amazing how they fix panels alignment

    • @Chris-zi1oo
      @Chris-zi1oo Před rokem

      Cheap? 15 000 Mark? Monthly you got 500 Mark...🤔

    • @debessar95
      @debessar95 Před rokem

      @@Chris-zi1oo 1500.

    • @dereklea1183
      @dereklea1183 Před rokem

      @@debessar95 - When I was stationed in West Berlin in the 80’s, we were told that the East Germans made between 450-550 Ost Marks (East German Deutschmarks).

  • @androspolydorou2242
    @androspolydorou2242 Před rokem +3

    absolutely amazing factory

  • @andreherzog5561
    @andreherzog5561 Před rokem +14

    Little correction the name "Trabant" was not referring to a celestial body. Trabant means here simply "faithful companion". In German exists a double meaning for Trabant because celestial bodies are faithful companions.

    • @jurgenbuchelt4384
      @jurgenbuchelt4384 Před rokem

      I remember a colleague at work. He came over from East Germany in 1990 when he found out that his GF was a StaSi informer who was put onto him when his brother had become a "Republikflüchtling". a few years earlier. His claim was that the name "Trabant" was chosen to remind you that you could not get away- Just like a f***ing moon. :D

    • @ZlobitkoRostak-hp1en
      @ZlobitkoRostak-hp1en Před 6 měsíci

      So she was paid by the government for dating him? Couldn’t he ask the government to grant him more girlfriends because he needed more attention? I know they probably dated first and then she got recruited. But the situation would be quite hilarious if it was the other way around. Like James Bond - never running out of cute spy girls.

  • @NCF8710
    @NCF8710 Před 9 měsíci

    Ah! Hand fitted old world craftsmanship at its finest.

  • @kaimiller8375
    @kaimiller8375 Před rokem +4

    Das war wenigstens noch Qualitätskontrolle 👍 😀

    • @edgargulden321
      @edgargulden321 Před rokem

      jo..mit Hammer, Meißel,Ausbeuler und Fußtritt🤣😅😅😉😉

  • @raymondwelsh6028
    @raymondwelsh6028 Před rokem +5

    Reminds me of Are You Being Served when they used to knee the jacket sleeves to break the stitches to make them fit. Probably as good as anything built in the UK at that time.🇦🇺

  • @user-if2zm3us4i
    @user-if2zm3us4i Před rokem

    Аналог Жука. Нормальное производство. Четко и слаженно... По качеству лучше чем гольфы.

  • @user-uv9fc6dx3c
    @user-uv9fc6dx3c Před 9 dny

    日本の匠の技もこれには脱帽だ!Hats off to the Japanese craftsmanship!

  • @zaphodsrealm1549
    @zaphodsrealm1549 Před rokem +4

    I haven't enjoyed a video so much in a while... thanks 🤣👍

  • @Phaistos
    @Phaistos Před rokem +4

    In my childhood it was usual for me to drive hundred miles with this. I always got sick. We owned 2 of Trabant 😂

    • @drive9997
      @drive9997 Před rokem

      We’re these cars bad to get in a wreck with ?

    • @Phaistos
      @Phaistos Před rokem +1

      @@drive9997 Squeezed like cheese with 1 mile against wall

  • @JoDo777
    @JoDo777 Před rokem

    WOW! VERY COOL!!! Thanks for the video ;-)