carmmunism

This genuinely one of the funniest episodes of the show you've ever put out. Thank you, all of you.

A bit late (i binge the bonus episodes, so sue me) but after doing some research it appears the Dacia Pick-Ups hood bump is there to accommodate the slightly taller air cleaner on the 1.9L F8Q Diesel.

How do I get this to play on my Roku? I can get the premium here on my phone through the Patreon app but I can't get it on my YouTube channel. Yes I'm old.

Very sad that the maluch was shown with no reference to your drunk cousin in my summer car

This is my favourite game.

1:16:27 "SMIC" is the French acronym for minimum wage, which seems fitting for the position in society of any likely owner of this vehicle

****01:28:36 - "America has never fundamental looked at something that was good enough to get the job done and appreciated it for what it did for them.….the things that America appreciates are aspirational and overbuilt. " --Victoria Scott **** EXACTLY! So well said. And Ill add, this mindset of ours is also the cause of so many of our problems!

The Yugo on the waterfront at about 2hrs in looks like it’s got hip dysplasia, its wheels are splayed out, no?

I drove a Skoda from Rome to Positano and back in 2017. It was like a VW Passat hatchback. I really enjoyed it

I want the Dacia pick-up please

About the bike, I knew someone who managed to expropriate one by diplomatic bag. He confirmed the shitness of this bike. According to him, It's made from iron and very heavy. The frame is put together with nuts and bolts, which results in a great deal of frame flexing, reducing the efficiency gained using the stiffness of the frame during pedalling. Another problem is the wheels. The rim is very flat and wide with very little side support. It's also made too light for purpose, so it dents and bends out of shape easily. However, context is everything. If you had the choice of carrying your bag of rice, duck and sack of vegetables, along with your wife and child, home for the evening and the choice was walking or riding this, it must have seemed like luxury.

The TR6 was replaced by the TR7 in 1976.

Sorry November but you don't know your Ladas the 125 was the basis for the FSO, the Lada was derived from the more compact 124.

I just got a Lada Niva Cossack brought home Sunday by my spouse as a present haha! He had no idea about Ladas, and came home a new fan It’s exactly the same as the one in the slide, though not airborne at the moment. Space program white is what I like to call the colour. Had a Suzuki samurai with the same white and black colour several years ago. Once, on the way home from work I realised that along with a deeply concerning noise I was all of a sudden going faster than I ever had been before and was genuinely able to do the speed limit on the highway (110km/hr). The differential on the rear axle was destroying itself at that moment and somehow that improved the speed. I thought about stopping but also thought I was feeling just a small percentage of the concerned inevitably astronauts feel just as things begin to go horribly wrong and don’t survive to have an after action report about. My samurai was called Apollo after. Affectionately but with respect I don’t know how or if I could add a picture, or I would. Can confirm for all the hosts, Nivas are great, and the three shifters make me very happy in a mechanical way. You definitely want to drive one. It brings joy like nothing but a communist piece of machinery can. I have an old Russian tractor too, which I absolutely was incapable of figuring the start procedure out on by myself. It took three of us reverse engineering like 4 yr olds taking apart an old alarm clock.

Yugo in Seattle?? Ill keep my eyes peeled

"Syrena", or more commonly "Syrenka" is more accurately a mermaid in polish, and it is called that because the crest of Warsaw is one of those. Also, re: racing f126p: it was (and almost still certainly is) to engine swap them with some beast of a 70hp and run rally races.

Hey, we don't say it enough, but I get way way way more than a few bucks of... meaning from all this. The world sucks. You don't. QED. We need to revisit that old joke about "Heaven is where the cars are Czech, the mistresses are french, the chefs are italian, and the delightful real-estate themed pornography is british" or whatever to something like "Heaven is where the trains run. On time. On wires. Between places people want to live lives affording them happiness and fucking scope. " Fucking paint us that goddamned picture. I want to SEE it. And fuck anyone in your way to your political right, even when it's me some day. edit: fixed the typo

Need to get Nate on to provide homophobic acronyms for all these cars. Lusting After Dudes' Asses

I bet that lump on the hood is the cam gears. Well, gear - singular, almost assuredly.

Yeah, one, two Hitlers kneel before you That's what I said now Hitlers, Hitlers who adore you...

Someone is pirating DPRK and Turkmenistan TV channels - Turkmen TV has a segment of men in big grey uniforms checking out little cars, and I'm guessing it's a lot of the same cars (also delightful) https://youtu.be/8PwHytpomC4?si=N4wkpYoMueRyilEA&t=1259

waiting for Carmunnism with Chinese Characteristics

this is delightful! can I request on future neat car episodes that we get a little caption with car names esp when in another language? auto cc doesn’t handle it well

50:45 apples to apples with a bunch of hitler cards is just cards against humanity

no mention of RAF-2203, smh, literally hitler podcast

If there is one man who can reverse the Everyone is Hitler dimension it is Nicholas Cage.

The Wartburg was affectionately(?) known as the Luthermobile, because like Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, it said "Here I stand, I can do no other."

Well, this one ruled. One small correction, however. As a Ural (motorcycle) owner and a former IMZ-Ural employee, I need to tell you that Ural (trucks) and Ural (bikes) are not and never have been the same company. IMZ (Irbit Motorcycle Factory) was formed as MMZ (Moscow Motorcycle Factory) in '41 to produce those bikes (Nova was right, the design was "stolen". They were reverse engineered BMWs that the Soviets brought in from Sweden via a broker). I can, and have, write hundreds of words about IMZ-Ural's history, but I'll spare you. Great work, and I love hearing Victoria on the show.

Congratulations Victoria!

I got so excited when I heard Victoria Scott's voice. She is definitely my favorite guest for WTYP.

Sorry Devon. The hardest thing about not being a producer is getting the recognition that you would probably make a better producer than most producers. - an editor

It would have been cool if you covered bikes a little bit. I know it's carmmunism but MZ an East German bike company was making world class racing motorcycles winning races and international championships revolutionising two stroke engine design

I have to say that artificial stadium terf "grass" companies are also an excellent source of nazis. Almost as good a source as car dealerships

Apparently Starbucks just got acquired by Chipotle's, which might have something to do with the court challenge to the dept of labour or whatever

I know someone that overheated one of those Russian jeeps. These things have special flaps on the front that you can drop down. This keeps heat in the engine and is perfect for running when it is very, very cold. However, if you forget they are down, and drive, say, in August, the engine will be very unhappy. It cost something like five hundred dollars for the engine, and three thousand dollars to ship it from Russia.

škoda also made and still makes trains, especially electric locomotives and a lot of them were exported to the soviet union

In the year 2000, I helped push a car over the Hungarian/Romanian border on a trip from Budapest to Oradea & Cluj. Thank you for solving the mystery of what car it was - as a teenager from Texas, now a middle aged lady from Texas, the best I could come up with was “Mercedes, but worse?” I now know I got to experience the full majesty of the Farty Hans. It was diesel, and didn’t care for the start-stop business of border crossings back in the day. So the driver had us (carload of American college girls on a semester abroad) hop out and push. Thanks for filling that in for me!

I did enjoy this, thank you.

My uncle told me an east german joke about their cars: Why is the trabant so silent to drive? Because you are blocking your ears with your knees.

Im pretty sure they still make the UAZ-452 up until today.

is it intentional that the audio-only version cuts off right before we hear what Nova's favorite thing is? i had to come to this one to hear about scaring the hoes

Ok I’m deeply offended that you all neglected Bulgarian communist era cars, which included 2 sports cars, the bulgaralpine and the Sofia.

The Stalingrad tractor factory mentioned is the one that they were pushing fresh T-34's of the production line strait into the battle.

our friend, V8 Lenin

Pretty sure the yugos not having parts for them is basically the plot of the second cars movie, the spy one, I forgot where it is in the cars franchise

Have any of you ever seen the Mr Show sketch where Jewish scientists clone Hitler, and then give the clones to Jewish families as reparations for the holocaust?

Awesome bonus episode all! Thanks for the reminder those Soviet cars always be a Stalin.

I got my "we deserve this" transfem/car look book in the mail and I love it c: thank you Victoria (not that she would see those lol)

I s2g if Zastava/Yugo aren't mentioned in this episode I'm gonna be mad

Yaaaay! Amazing episode! You never forget your first car, and mine was a Warti! Caravan-version with stick-shift, you could fold the whole back seat down, true camping champion. Totaled it eventually. Second and third were also Wartburgs, and I totaled every one of them. Thing is that the re-unification hit me right when I was 18, so all these Wartburgs were popping up dirt-cheap for like 500 bucks because people wanted to 'upgrade' to a western car but needed the parking space.... So I didn't care. They crashed so easily because they had terrible breaks. It's literally a steel cord on like a swivel arm connected to the pedal. Not even hydraulic, just mechanical. You had to literally lean in with all your weight to break hard, and kinda hop the pedal for interval breaking. Real fun to drift in. The bouncy suspension lets you weather potholes, but also catch good air on dirt tracks. Real fun vehicle, the Warti. :) On an extra note: Think that last picture in the podcast was photoshopped. Very badly. The angle on both cars looks suspiciously identical. Makes no sense, at least one of them would not be driving straight on the road. Which leads me to believe the North Koreans got sent only a single car, and boasted about having two.

The end of this episode made me really want an episode on military engineering vehicles. Please talk about the M1 Grizzly and other horrible pieces of trash

It's my birthday this is a perfect gift oml

I think it’s clear that we now have to hook Rocz up with a fiancée

Shout outs to the Suzuki Jimny, the Japanese knockoff of the VAZ-2121.

Thank god we have Snowrunner. So much more eastern stuff than in any other trucking sim.

the emphasis in the word "Zaporozhets" is on the third syllable - zaporOzhets. They are still in use, albeit very rare. Also, could you please not use russian and soviet interchangeably? Like, there were a lot of countries in that union and I have russian missiles hitting my city every other week in part because it's hard to explain to the westerners, that not everything in the USSR was russia. And while we're at it, the robustness and reliability of the soviet cars (as well as other soviet-produced stuff) is somewhat overstated. While simple and reliable in theory, it was usually assembled very poorly from parts, that were produced equally poorly. So in 99% cases it works, but you need to constantly tinker with it to keep it working. People legit spent A LOT of time in their garages fixing their cars, cause they would break all the time.

Hey guys did you get the polearm I mailed to your PO box?

The "Victory" (not going to even try the Russian) reminds me of the cars in the old Milky Way advert shown in the 80s in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsNP7IqB1rY

I had thar exact same olive green Maisto Trabant!

I love that November plays Snowrunner too. Any game where Maine is a DLC has me with bonus points if its high difficulty.

No! November you're wrong! Ladas were licensed Fiat 124! Identical midpart of body, by differend ends. Fiat125p is lincesed on slightly bigger 125 - different front and end part of bodies, different engines (1,3l in 124 and 1,5 in 125) and other dashboards. Polonez was not a fiat! Polonez was designed by fiat (body) but was never a production fiat model! Interior was polish design, engine and underbody was taken from 125 (sadly, because car was designed for bigger engine). Żuk (and Nysa) were build on frame of Warszawa (also same engine, but other position of valves).

I just got to the bad moustache man part and now you have done it. Less than half way thru and yous have made me completely and properly laugh so hard that I canne breathe for the first time in a long old time. Thankyou :’)

YOU USE BSD MY DUDE! BERKLEY'S KINDA A BIG PART OF THAT

Watching this as I’m making model A parts lmao

As a person named Carmen, I felt so called out for a moment oh my god

About the seat on the Flying Pigeon. Many years I had a Raleigh bike with a leather saddle. Unless you take the proper amount of time to condition the leather in the saddle to conform to your ass cheeks it is going to be uncomfortable AF.

Guys! I was about to go to bed.

"This is true"

OMFG, you stared with a an image of a place I'm right now watching this. However it isn't and never was Soviet Union ffs.

im so glad that there's finally a podcast to answer a question that's been running in my mind for a while: whatever happened to the "in china they all ride bikes" thing

Carma

I'm not really a car person but I am DEFINITELY a victoria episode person

Ooooo. I have a story. My German teacher in high school said that a common way to prank your teachers in East Germany was to get a few guys together and simply lift up the little Communist car and take it somewhere else.

I went to Philly for the first time other day. Had a wonderful dinner at a place where all the waiters are opera singers. Thought I should share

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Vicki poooooooood yes hell yes 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

I really thought for a second they were going to do a full episode on communism lol

Gods above you people really do come through.