Wartburg Knight review
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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I like the various simple, but elegant dashboards in those days - unlike today's cars, in many cases!
Well this is a very pleasant surprise on a Tuesday..
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I don't remember seeing your first look at this car, but coincidentally, when I saw the front, like you, my first thought was that it looked very similar to the Saab 95 or 96...!!
I agree that it does look rear - engined, from the back!
Always pleasant and soothing - thank you! 😊
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It came in blue and as a estate. Definitely got my attention. Cool car. 😊
Fun fact: the DDR had a rental fleet of these to hire to road tripping citizens whose Trabants were too small for long holiday journeys.
My uncle had the maroon coloured estate,
Wonder how the 2 stroke oil was added, either an autolube system or pre mixed,
I see what you mean about the front-end Saab 96 likeness, I'd never noticed that before. These Wartburgs were not uncommon in the UK in the 1970's, one of my primary school teachers drove one. Another interesting video!
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Unlike virtually every boring car design of today, this was something that dared to be different. In the early 1980's, I can remember there was at least one Wartburg Tourist still pottering around the streets of Bristol. This brand of course, was a product of the now defunct GDR. I kind of liked the old rear engine Skoda's too, and owned one for a while. As you would know, they sold on price and were often the butt of many jokes. Still, they held quite a niche of loyal customers in Britain.
The photo next to the headlight photo is of the child proof rear door lock.
You are right to say that there are some similarities in the frontal styling to the SAAB 96. Especially the headlights and the positioning of the indicator lights. The grille design was different. Other similarities to the SAAB 96 include the three cylinder two stroke engine, and the clamshell style bonnet. Wartburg also carried the clamshell design over to the boot on the saloon. The rear taillights of the saloon remind me of Renaults of the time. The Wartburg Knight Tourist estate car reminds me of a mix of the Renault 4 and the Renault 10 estate. The Renault 4 had round headlights though. That car was actually the first mass produced hatchback. I've never seen a Wartburg on the road, and I don't think they were exported to Australia. However, I have seen a couple of UA-cam videos of Wartburgs still on the road in the UK. The owners are young guys, which is encouraging. I guess they are affordable classic cars. As for three cylinder engines, I owned two Daihatsu Charade five door hatchbacks in the eighties. They had a similar capacity (993cc) to the engine in the Wartburg Knight. They both had five speed manual transmissions, and were very reliable. As far as modern three cylinder engines are concerned, the Suzuki 660cc turbocharged engine is wonderful. If circumstances allow in the future, my wife and I will buy a 4x4 Multicab van or dual cab pickup that is built here in the Philippines, and runs that engine. Caterham in England also use it in their entry level sports car based on the venerable Lotus Seven. If I remember correctly it's called the Caterham 70, and costs around 30,000 UK pounds. The Multicabs I mentioned before are 399,000 Philippine Pesos, which is a little over $10,000 Australian Dollars.
I remember these as when i was growing up, my friends dad, who lived 6 doors up from us, used to take us to school sometimes in it. This was about 1979. I always remember thinking it was a nice car, as at that time we had a 1968 Hillman Imp and this Knight seemed to be better equipped than our Hillman, to the eyes of an 8-year-old anyway. The engine being 2 stroke did make a very different sound and also a lot of smoke out the exhaust. They were ok cars for their price and pretty decent compared to some of the competition like the Ford Cortina, the Morris Marina, or the Vauxhall Viva. They just soldiered on, then the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all these cars vanished. Why? What happened to them? Did the DDR sabotage them somehow so they wouldn't work? No, simply the old East Germans, now able to have freedom, headed to the UK where they knew we looked after our vehicles better than they did and bought as many of them as they could and shipped them back to the former East Germany, to service the cars out there with the cars we had. Sometimes they just kept the cars they took and just used them. FSO and Lada were the same, once the USSR collapsed, the cars from the former Soviet states that were in Europe suddenly became wanted because of their spares. Very nice brochure and an interesting one to see these back in the 60s when they first came here and how they were marketed to us in the UK.
My dad bought a brand new on back in 1975 in orange it was very comfortable to travel in the boot was very big the engine run like a turbine you mixed a pint of two stroke oil with ever five gallons of petrol in the tank the freewheel us to kick in when you took your foot off the accelerator it was to stop the engine sezing on the overrun you could take it out of freewheel if you at to push start it the was s lever under the dash board with the choke lever the engine would not start hot are cold with out choke it came with a good tool role also a tin of touch up paint my dad sadly started to Los his eye site and he gave the car to me I had it for a couple of years but the cost of fuel Started going up so I traded it in for some think moor economicall the car was fantastic in the snow when other cars gave up you could keep going I wish I still had it now a very reliable car It never went wrong in 90.000 miles I still have the work shop manual for it sadly the we're not mobile phoned back then so nobody took photos like we do now I just have pictures in my head of the good times with the car
Thank you for sharing your experience- very interesting read
Eastern European cars were rare in Britain in the 1970s, think I have only seen a handful of these Wartburgs, also the Skoda S110 and Moskvich. I'm sure I remember someone in my street who had a gold Moskvich but don;t know the registration.
Good choice for a review. As a youngster I saw them on the road occasionally, Moskvitches also, but these two brands seemed to be less common than Skoda and a few years later Lada. The Warti isn't a bad looking car overall but does not have the cute appeal of the Trabi. To me the large, oddly shaped front lights and big plain grille give the front a rather austere and strange 'blank stare' look somehow. I knew a guy who worked as a mechanic in several dealerships and independent garages in the '70s/'80s (including Wartburg and BL dealers) and he said there were lots of issues with Wartburgs and they were difficult cars to work on. It looks from the specifications as though Wartburgs were inspected and modified by the importer to correct defects and make them suitable for Western roads, which was pretty standard for Eastern Bloc cars. You could probably do worse for a new car at a low price though . . . love how all the flowers at the DDR garden centre are red!
Interesting comment thank you
Wartburg is pronounced as "Vartburg" because it was a German car.
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They were very popular in Denmark back then. My teacher in highschool had an estate in a nice brown color, but he was a communist.
The 3 cylinder two stroke engine my Suzuki GT750 had a 3 cylinder 2 stroke motor but it was 738 cc and made about 60 hp were this car has a larger capacity 3 cylinder 2 stroke but produces less hp
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I had a test drive in a second-hand Wartburg, about ten years ago. It was an estate, in really nice condition. When I started the engine and heard the lovely two-stroke three-cylinder sound, I thought "This is for me!". However, driving along, the car felt and sounded like it was about to fall to bits, as if every nut and bolt was loose. It was terrible. Rattle, rattle, crash, bang. I really wanted to like it! No sale, as the seller wanted top dollar.
That’s a shame I would imagine it would be quite the experience owning one of these
What are your thoughts on the three cylinder engine that ran on two stroke oil?
I think they made the most of what they had - made for an interesting drive - the SAAB 96 of course did amazingly in rallies before the V4 arrived- environmentally- horrendous of course
What do you think of three cylinder engines generally? At one time the BMW 318i had a 1.5 litre 3 cylinder turbo engine.
Nissan has a 3 cylinder out now - more power for less - although a bit crude
I do not mind these redoi videos at all.
At least you could pretend toi be posh because you had a German car.
I wonder how they justified a RHD model, but they had no shareholders to whom they had to account.
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