I bought a Fiat 126! See why it's one of the coolest cars ever...

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  • @MatWatsonCars
    @MatWatsonCars  5 років тому +1560

    Please subscribe to this channel! Don't forget to hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on to be alerted when I upload!

    • @jpb2541
      @jpb2541 5 років тому +23

      Doug would love this car

    • @sameerafokeena2271
      @sameerafokeena2271 5 років тому +13

      subscribed 2 days ago
      Luv ur channel and i never forgot to hit the bell icon 😉

    • @rayndaimlermotorsports8908
      @rayndaimlermotorsports8908 5 років тому +5

      Please review rolls Royce cullinan
      #roadto100ksubscriber

    • @rakibulhossain7203
      @rakibulhossain7203 5 років тому +4

      I did

    • @chronicallyacute9665
      @chronicallyacute9665 5 років тому +6

      Hi Mat!
      You bought a great car! My grandma has got one, but she didn't drove it for 2 years because it is broken.. Are you planning to do something with maluch or no? Maybe some motorbike engine swap or even electric? Then, it would maybe pass the emission test. I don't know how it works in England with engine swaps etc. I'm from Slovakia, neighbour country of Poland! Have a nice day!

  • @krzysztofpoznan5226
    @krzysztofpoznan5226 5 років тому +2859

    It has some safety systems like horn, warning lights and brakes

  • @Ihbi
    @Ihbi 5 років тому +10714

    This is very safe car. The crumple zone ends at the engine

    • @rumcajs009
      @rumcajs009 5 років тому +274

      Same like Mercedes.

    • @LegwanPL
      @LegwanPL 5 років тому +775

      Yes. Front crumple zone ends at the engine that is in the back xD

    • @dennislucas8745
      @dennislucas8745 5 років тому +44

      LOL !!

    • @MichelLinschoten
      @MichelLinschoten 5 років тому +71

      Ihbi hahaha you won the internet today

    • @deen84
      @deen84 5 років тому +245

      @@MichelLinschoten In Poland, this text about FIAT126p is as old as the world.

  • @mcair1991
    @mcair1991 4 роки тому +2982

    When i was 16 i stole that car from my father at the night,to take my girlfrend for the ride.
    Good that it's so light, becasue i had to push it from the garage without turning it on, so my father won't wake up.
    Golden times...

    • @ImranIsak
      @ImranIsak 4 роки тому +73

      GLORIOUS

    • @charonboat6394
      @charonboat6394 4 роки тому +247

      And when you wanted to have sex with her all you needed to do was to remove headlights to make space for legs

    • @Eray2007
      @Eray2007 4 роки тому +12

      Um

    • @03gxm3zz9
      @03gxm3zz9 4 роки тому +7

      Woww😭

    • @Eray2007
      @Eray2007 4 роки тому +8

      Wait, thats illegal

  • @GiacoC
    @GiacoC 3 роки тому +298

    Borring are those channels when they travel around the world in todays LandRovers and Jeeps. Imagine travel around the world in THIS in crew with 2 trabants. Czech/Polish/Slovak crew did it.

    • @LiseK_
      @LiseK_ 3 роки тому +6

      there is a guy who travels like that, he's called Arkady Fiedler, his channel on YT is called the same. So far he drove thorugh Asia (Poland -> Wladyvostok, Russia) and Africa in electric and in Fiat 126p car (Poland -> Egypt -> Republic of South Africa)

    • @janrendek
      @janrendek 3 роки тому +1

      Hey, we had Lada 1200! And it took us only 2 1/2 day to arrive to Bulgaria! Greetings from 🇸🇰

    • @TermlessHGW
      @TermlessHGW 3 роки тому +3

      Yup my father had one of those in white. Rarely did we get somewhere further than let's say 100km without something going wrong. Also traveling in winter I was in my full plush clothing and under a blanket to keep warm. Ahh those where the days.

  • @arthdenton
    @arthdenton 5 років тому +3046

    I actually saw them in Poland being driven with 5 people inside.
    Poles joked that it was the only car blessed by the Pope. BECAUSE IT's IMPOSSIBLE TO SIN IN IT.

    • @miskowski1500
      @miskowski1500 5 років тому +196

      Old joke. BJ is absolutely possible. I scored a few :)

    • @michamalawski8749
      @michamalawski8749 5 років тому +199

      Believe me, it's possible. :-) Pope was not informed.

    • @ROGERUS31
      @ROGERUS31 5 років тому +65

      80% of the owners have different option about it 💪🤔😁

    • @witboj8281
      @witboj8281 5 років тому +54

      17 people - thats the present record: teleexpress.tvp.pl/20283641/17-osob-w-maluchu
      other possibilty: ua-cam.com/video/q0HeV1zHYhc/v-deo.html

    • @mlecyk1111
      @mlecyk1111 5 років тому +58

      only 5?, we used it for going dance club, record was 10 :), 3 must drive it, 1 on sterring wheen, person under driver brake, clutch etc and passengers on right change gears hahaha. kaszlak rules hahah (and sin its posible xD)

  • @petergala2147
    @petergala2147 3 роки тому +574

    I'm Polish and I'M living in Chicago USA NOW.
    My father bought and gave me this car in 1986.
    I drove my 126 Polski Fiat. all over THE place in Europe.
    I still vividly remember my solitary trip from Istanbul Turkey to Krakow Poland
    3 days...2 nights
    Through
    TURKEY...BULGARIA....YOGUSLAVIA..HUNGARY...CZECHOSLOVAKIA ...BACK TO POLAND.
    JESUS CHRIST ...I MADE IT

    • @WISHER0
      @WISHER0 3 роки тому +21

      That requires really big balls actually. You must be so brave

    • @amoresperros6241
      @amoresperros6241 3 роки тому +10

      You still alive ?😂

    • @petergala2147
      @petergala2147 3 роки тому +24

      @@amoresperros6241 I'm still alive ànd kicking

    • @domenicocicchetti7107
      @domenicocicchetti7107 3 роки тому +5

      mate ...they dont build strong car like before, 126, 500 and Fiat Panda :)

    • @Хлебун
      @Хлебун 3 роки тому +1

      sounds like Jalopy...

  • @brian_mwaura
    @brian_mwaura 5 років тому +2825

    "No airbags, we die like real men..."~ Fiat 126
    Yes Matt, make more videos!

    • @ludwiks971
      @ludwiks971 5 років тому +39

      pfff, not only are there no airbags, you dont get TC, ESP, ABS, etc. I am an owner of the Fiat 126p and, I tell you that in this car you really feel that YOU are driving it. It is all your skills that matter.

    • @ObviousSpy
      @ObviousSpy 5 років тому +5

      Poland didn’t have any airbags until 2003

    • @brian_mwaura
      @brian_mwaura 5 років тому +11

      @@ludwiks971 Most defintely... the simplicity of the car is as endearing as it is astounding. So is the driving... In a way (at least to me), the lack of safety systems are sort of ways of ensuring some safety...who would want to be caught in an accident at 50mph in it?

    • @JAnx01
      @JAnx01 5 років тому +11

      @@ludwiks971
      Yeah, all of this crap + automatic transmissions inflate car prices ridiculously. I've hear replacement airbags alone can cost up to 4K. Soon they're going to take driving from us altogether. All things considered, it's just a terrible industry. Terrible, terrible.

    • @justacrlon3963
      @justacrlon3963 5 років тому +6

      Are u saying that real men are stupid?

  • @kobre1149
    @kobre1149 3 роки тому +59

    Polish guy here, my grandpa used to have one of these, whenever we'd visit poland we'd go on trips in it. such a nostalgic car and such an awesome one at that. I still have that engine sound memorised haha

  • @muratveli
    @muratveli 5 років тому +964

    In the late 90s I saw one of these with a sticker at the back which read:
    _When I grow up, I'm becoming a bus._

  • @michalklucz6907
    @michalklucz6907 5 років тому +755

    in the '80s, the most popular SUV, MPV, pickup, and campervan on the Polish market

    • @Jf_1900
      @Jf_1900 5 років тому +16

      haha had to read that twice lol

    • @FlorinC1984
      @FlorinC1984 5 років тому +78

      And some Polish families even attached a 2-wheel trailer to it. I remember Polish tourists visiting Romania before the '90s in these tiny cars, 4 people, huge pile of luggage on metallic racks on the roof and a small trailer attached to the back.I was 6 or 7 at the time and I simply couldn't understand how so much weight was pushed along by this tiny little motor.

    • @michalklucz6907
      @michalklucz6907 5 років тому +38

      @@FlorinC1984 f126p and niewiadow.. the most common summer combo: mklr.pl/254650 :)

    • @crebegea
      @crebegea 5 років тому +17

      @@FlorinC1984 Yeap! Amazing, and I thought they were some sort of super cars back then. Come to look at it, they look worse than our old Dacias. Still the Polish rocked these little things in big style.

    • @wino0000006
      @wino0000006 5 років тому +13

      Jeez - I remember travaling in this - 3 adults, 2 kids and a dog.

  • @sumilidero
    @sumilidero 5 років тому +444

    Now it's even rare in Poland and we do smile when we see one on the road :p

    • @wolfsokaya
      @wolfsokaya 4 роки тому +11

      I rarely see them around here,like the rest of the old east block cars.Most was probably killed by rust and time. :]

    • @akseli5790
      @akseli5790 4 роки тому +12

      There was lots of these cars in Havana.

    • @cameraman8472
      @cameraman8472 4 роки тому +1

      sumilidero wypierdalaj cebulaku

    • @sumilidero
      @sumilidero 4 роки тому +3

      @@cameraman8472 Hahah odezwał sie expert, iq taboretu bez jednej nogi. Schowaj sie jak nic nie masz do powiedzenia na temat.

    • @TheGinajekul
      @TheGinajekul 4 роки тому +2

      It's same in Croatia! We don't see them very often nowdays :(

  • @slowmikespace
    @slowmikespace 3 роки тому +52

    my mum had this car from 1979 to 2013, although it was repaired often due to its fragility. i had the chance to do my first drive with it, kinda hard but those cars literally makes you learn how it works, it's like having a kart under your hands

  • @tucatnev123
    @tucatnev123 5 років тому +571

    The Hungarian joke is about that this is the quietest car on the world, coz' when you sit in, your knees are covering your ears.

    • @slavosahin
      @slavosahin 5 років тому +24

      Same joke about this car in Slovakia :D

    • @75srbin
      @75srbin 5 років тому +1

      tucatnev Sta ti madjari seru?! Da nisu mozda napravili bolji?

    • @andymusicstudio2485
      @andymusicstudio2485 4 роки тому +7

      which is literally true since I had one like that and my ears were just between my knees , I'm 187 cm :)

    • @melchizedekful
      @melchizedekful 4 роки тому +3

      @@75srbin pofád befogod usztasa.

    • @szczur0192
      @szczur0192 4 роки тому +11

      In poland it's the same, I guess the joke is known everywhere.

  • @Xariod
    @Xariod 5 років тому +701

    RWD, Light, air-cooled engine in the back. Basically a Porsche!

    • @Fuckingenius
      @Fuckingenius 5 років тому +13

      ehem... with brakes without a fuckin servo. its so safe and cool...

    • @AR15.666
      @AR15.666 5 років тому +14

      Xariod and the yougo is basicly a Bentley.

    • @Xariod
      @Xariod 5 років тому +130

      Wow so many people can’t recognize a joke nowadays :0

    • @AR15.666
      @AR15.666 5 років тому +5

      Xariod you don’t reconize the joke have you watched top gear ?

    • @Xariod
      @Xariod 5 років тому +7

      @@AR15.666 i was talking to Mind_less. But yes i admit i forgot about that joke. You mean that time they went in Albania to try luxury cars right? And bentley didn't give them permission to film the bentley because they were talking about "cars for mob bosses"

  • @TheBalcerman
    @TheBalcerman 5 років тому +310

    I'm polish and gotta tell you: everything you said, mentioned is spot on. Love it. Excellent review of polish Maluch.

    • @HQWagon
      @HQWagon 5 років тому

      Mate you are charged with Treason, or Sedition..both... you bloody traitor....you're going down pal...sorry bro

    • @kombi7826
      @kombi7826 5 років тому +10

      H.Q. Wagon why so much hate ? He just gave an honest comment about the video... calm down buddy

    • @kombi7826
      @kombi7826 5 років тому

      doctorwho0077 I’ve driven the fiat 126p 1983 ( The fl version)- I had a problem but with the 1/3 gear, when I was in second gear- a lot of the times when I tried to hop into third it just went back to first- it does get time to get used to it but when you get used to the old gearbox it’s a very pleasant car to drive and defiantly grabs a lot of attention!

    • @bonergarage6679
      @bonergarage6679 5 років тому

      Kurwa najlepszy samochód stworzony

    • @HQWagon
      @HQWagon 5 років тому

      @@kombi7826 I guess tongue in cheek never works on social media

  • @wiktorszymczak4760
    @wiktorszymczak4760 3 роки тому +35

    I will never forget this one time when i was like 7 and in front of McDonald, there it was, small fiat (as we call them in poland) turned into cabrio. It was blue, painted with wall paint. And fifth whell mounted on back like some kimd of jeep. Core memory.

  • @konstantinosanastassakis453
    @konstantinosanastassakis453 4 роки тому +611

    My girlfriend in the 90s had one in Budapest and I remember the brakes were amazing!
    BTW, there is a trick to DOUBLE the value of your Polski: you fill the tank!

    • @armaansaumya
      @armaansaumya 4 роки тому +6

      😂😂

    • @rxivild
      @rxivild 4 роки тому +4

      Let me drink and my tank will be filled, then I am two times more valuable? Wow. True facts, I am Polski Człowiek.

    • @Porabany
      @Porabany 4 роки тому +10

      Thats the first time in the history of mankind that anyone called Polski instead of maluch o_O

    • @notmasterdelectronics
      @notmasterdelectronics 4 роки тому

      Yes xd

    • @lukkruk6904
      @lukkruk6904 4 роки тому +1

      To triple the value you put the banana pack in

  • @lucasquattrucci4122
    @lucasquattrucci4122 4 роки тому +1462

    No airbag, but a picture of Padre Pio on the dashboard to protect the driver 🔥🔥🔥
    Italianity level 100

    • @Hundseier
      @Hundseier 3 роки тому +47

      I currently have a Gaz 24 Volga with a picture of The Virgin and baby Jesus on the dash for precisely that reason!

    • @christianfelipe7084
      @christianfelipe7084 3 роки тому +1

      Hahaha

    • @wojciechmotkowski4804
      @wojciechmotkowski4804 3 роки тому +43

      this car is Polish :)

    • @Sperrosino
      @Sperrosino 3 роки тому +62

      @@wojciechmotkowski4804 I'm sorry Polish friend. The fact that FIAT has outsourced some production, doesn't make it "Polish". Otherwise we could say the world is Chinese :)

    • @wojciechmotkowski4804
      @wojciechmotkowski4804 3 роки тому +9

      @@Sperrosino it is already!

  • @Hoodinski
    @Hoodinski 5 років тому +449

    Fun fact: due to the sound the engine made it was also called 'Kaszlak' - 'the Cougher' :)

    • @UpfulWarrior
      @UpfulWarrior 4 роки тому +11

      In Serbia they were pretty common back in a day, and they had a nickname "Peglica" - The Clothes Iron

    • @agrorolatv4897
      @agrorolatv4897 4 роки тому

      @@UpfulWarrior fiat 126 was exported to serbia? I didn't know!

    • @UpfulWarrior
      @UpfulWarrior 4 роки тому +1

      @@agrorolatv4897 In tens of thousands! It was the first thing your parents buy you when you get a driving license back then.

    • @bluruckuscrx8124
      @bluruckuscrx8124 3 роки тому +1

      @@UpfulWarrior Yugoslavia*

    • @bluruckuscrx8124
      @bluruckuscrx8124 3 роки тому

      @@anabukis.9528 what does that have to do with my comment? I also don't agree with your statement

  • @MrKotBonifacy
    @MrKotBonifacy 3 роки тому +103

    That "stereo" is actually a "mono", AFAIR... And it is tuned to radio frequencies long abandoned in Poland, as around (mid?)nineties they switched to different frequencies (I believe, higher ones) - so people with expensive tuners in their stereo systems (all of those were "expensive" by "general population standards") had to re-tune them.

    • @peterkirgan6850
      @peterkirgan6850 3 роки тому +1

      Think the radio was made by AWA??? Always wanting another !!! Lol

    • @vlu1652
      @vlu1652 3 роки тому

      @@peterkirgan6850 Unitra?

    • @fungo6631
      @fungo6631 3 роки тому +1

      At least it will be able to receive Russian OIRT radio via E Skip.

    • @MrKotBonifacy
      @MrKotBonifacy 3 роки тому +2

      @@vlu1652 UNITRA was a major manufacturer (AFAIR) of "all things acoustic" (turntables, tape recorders, radios and speakers), so there's a high chance the radio was made by UNITRA. But then there were other producers of radio sets, so it's hard to tell with certainty.
      EDIT: Just took another look at the video, and indeed one can alearly see, @ 2:45, that radio with UNITRA name and logo on it (just above the left knob). Model SAFARI 5, of a highest quality, as indicated by a number one ("1") in an inverted "rounded" triangle preceding the model name. Mind you, "highest" is a relative term - like in "highest available" or "possible" (under prevailing circumstances, heh heh...).

  • @bandiras2
    @bandiras2 5 років тому +653

    And when it breaks down, you can wear as a backpack

    • @mantyxxx
      @mantyxxx 4 роки тому +12

      when it breaks you need key nr 10 and a hammer and you're good to go

    • @neildavies2276
      @neildavies2276 4 роки тому +9

      I had one as a stopgap when I was restoring my Beetle. One day the accelerator cable broke, so I drove home using the choke cable to get the thing to move. Loved it!

    • @ivuldivul
      @ivuldivul 4 роки тому +6

      At school we used to prank people driveing these:
      4 guys would pick it up and carry to different parking spot.

  • @h00d276
    @h00d276 5 років тому +784

    This car is famous in Poland for being an anomaly in terms of physics - namely bending space. Anyway you try to fill it with luggage, there's always space for some more.

    • @the_weeb_lord1017
      @the_weeb_lord1017 5 років тому +105

      My dad would never shut up about how 8 people and their luggage would fit in it

    • @amon6109
      @amon6109 5 років тому +6

      WAS popular in Poland not "is"
      I havent seen one in traffic in almost 20 years
      Also my grandad used to have one.

    • @frmbeats3672
      @frmbeats3672 5 років тому +1

      ..i made thousands of miles with this one in the past, and its a "solid piece" :)

    • @pyroVoid
      @pyroVoid 5 років тому +2

      Amon when i went to lezajsk to visit my family 8 years ago i saw a few of them

    • @after_midnight9592
      @after_midnight9592 5 років тому +10

      Same in ex-yu countries. Whole families were taking trips to the seaside, but now we can't seem to fit everything in a decent-sized crossover with a roof box.

  • @mgecko2959
    @mgecko2959 4 роки тому +930

    Im Polish and I can confirm that this car was worth twice or often three times as much if you wanted to sell it new. But it wasn't exactly a waiting list, in communistic Poland you could only get "a ticket" from your employer that allowed you to buy one. It was like that with everything. Anyway I remember my dad got ticket for one of those in early 80's, we had old 13 year old one at the time and we went to pick up the new one. Two days later my dad and my uncle drove to sunday market with second hand cars to sell the old one and they managed to sell it for 10% more than we paid for brand new one 3 days earlier. My dad even got offer three times the price for the new one but nobody back then was interested in selling it, who knew how many years would pass before we would be able to buy new one as it wasnt simple 2 year waiting list like i said.
    Anyway this car doesnt even belong to Polish car history, history basically is this very car. We also had licenced Fiat 125p which was a 4 door sedan, Polonez FSO which was a 4 door fastback and Syrena 102 and 105 but no other car came even close to what Fiat 126p made for Polish history. Literally not one person born in Poland before 1980 that wouldnt own that car at some stage, you could repair it with screwdriver and hammer alone, it was extremely cheap and reliable. Even the most recent renewed version from late 90's only costed around 2000 pounds brand new. And in 80-90's this car definitely made over 50% of all cars in Poland.

    • @martinrafaj6096
      @martinrafaj6096 4 роки тому +9

      How much would this car cost in Poland? like in good condition, i want to buy one but there are not much of them in my country which is wierd because a bunch of people had it back then.

    • @mateuszkowalski9229
      @mateuszkowalski9229 4 роки тому +18

      @@martinrafaj6096 For Polski Fiat in average condition, you have to pay min. 4000-6000 zloty (910-1365€). 2275 € and more for really good condition.

    • @mgecko2959
      @mgecko2959 4 роки тому +29

      @@martinrafaj6096 they got pretty expensive compared to where they were 10-15 years ago. Back then you could get one in very good shape for probably 500e and average ones as cheap as 100e or even less. But like I said in last 10 or 15 years the price is constantly going up, you can still buy pretty shitty ones at 150e but one in very good shape can cost anywhere from 2000e up to 5000-7000k which is crazy cause brand new 20 years ago they were retailing at 2.500e LOL. But back then there was more 126p on Polish roads than rest of cars combined, now there are less and less and considering how huge part in history of the country it played it became a must have classic. In all honesty Im planning to soon invest in one and restore it

    • @SuperJakur
      @SuperJakur 4 роки тому +8

      bardzo trafny komentarz (informacja)

    • @thabomotsoane2246
      @thabomotsoane2246 4 роки тому +4

      This is the longest comment I've ever seen

  • @wilhufftarkin8543
    @wilhufftarkin8543 3 роки тому +11

    This car reminds me of my childhood. When I was a kid, every second car in Poland was this car. It was everywhere!

  • @francoisbadoux625
    @francoisbadoux625 3 роки тому +158

    My grand-mother offered me, for my 20th birthday, a second-hand, "swimming-pool blue" Fiat 126. I owned it from 1978 through 1982... and loved it! I wish to share an experience I had with it.
    I was then a member of my university's ski racing team, over here in Switzerland. One beautiful day, following a snow storm which had deposited over a foot of snow, I went up to the mountains for a training day. The road was snow covered... and I had summer tires, as I could not afford changing to winter tires. I was following another car which, just before a turn in the road, suddenly braked for no reason I could have anticipated. I also breaded, but slid. I was able to successfully avoid rear-ending that car by swerving to the left... Unfortunately, a 3.5 ton delivery truck was just emerging from the turn, and we hit... left-front corner against left-front corner. Imagine, some 500 kg of Italian steel against a loaded Mercedes 3.5 ton truck!
    My front wheels were blocked by bent steel... but pulling on it with my ski-gloved hands, I was able to free them, and to drive away... but not before the police fined me for loss of control, though. Repairs cost me but a few hundred Swiss francs. But the truck didn't make it, and had to be towed away. My little Fiat 126 had warped the truck's whole cabin so badly that its doors coud not be opened anymore, and the poor driver had to exit through a window. I know from the insurance settlement that the truck incurred over 10'000 Swiss francs of damage...
    Brave, tough little Fiat 126, which won that fight against 20:1 odds!!!!

    • @mjtwardy
      @mjtwardy 3 роки тому +29

      We had an annoying neighbor who owned one. He was always complaining about us kids being loud or playing football under his window. We were boys about 13-16y.o. and decided to piss him off. So one summer night we gathered like 8 guys, grabbed the sides of his Fiat and inch by inch we carried/pushed it between a lamp post and a wall. It took him a good hour an a lot of "kurwa mać" to drive it back and forth to get it out. He stopped yelling at us out the window after this.

    • @free_gold4467
      @free_gold4467 3 роки тому +2

      Forza Fiat!

    • @possibleproblem479
      @possibleproblem479 3 роки тому +6

      jesus what damage model did car crashes run back then

    • @MrKuncol
      @MrKuncol 3 роки тому +1

      That's because truck had crumple zones designed to take energy from crash and Fiat didn't had them.

    • @mjtwardy
      @mjtwardy 3 роки тому +12

      @@MrKuncol Fiat 126p has a crumple zone, from the front bumper to the engine compartment.

  • @pepikkrul4296
    @pepikkrul4296 5 років тому +161

    As a Pole I certainly wasn't expecting that little thing here

    • @stinkypodracer7210
      @stinkypodracer7210 5 років тому

      Pepik Krul same

    • @janchojnowski527
      @janchojnowski527 5 років тому +1

      As a Pole you must expecting very little thing.

    • @Seele2015au
      @Seele2015au 5 років тому +1

      Pepik Krul They were quite popular in the 80s and 90s in Australia as well.

    • @perezes83
      @perezes83 5 років тому +1

      Wydaje mi się, że Mat ma polskie korzenie. Może stąd pomysł na zakup malucha.

  • @zawiszaczarny7876
    @zawiszaczarny7876 4 роки тому +679

    All you need now is a sticker that state "no airbags, we die like real man"

    • @zawiszaczarny7876
      @zawiszaczarny7876 4 роки тому +5

      @Vedran Tonković en.dopl3r.com/memes/dank/meanwhile-in-polska-no-airbags-we-die-like-real-man/656561

    • @justenzo6342
      @justenzo6342 3 роки тому +12

      No those are so cringe

    • @MrK20000
      @MrK20000 3 роки тому +8

      @@justenzo6342 No it isnt, its what real men need. Unlike you, you insufferable oaf.

    • @z-trip5457
      @z-trip5457 3 роки тому +8

      @@MrK20000 CLARKSON!

    • @hansdietrich83
      @hansdietrich83 3 роки тому +3

      Pure cringe

  • @karolbociek9359
    @karolbociek9359 3 роки тому +192

    The quietest car in the world, because your knees cover your ears 😃

  • @gabrieletuzi5411
    @gabrieletuzi5411 5 років тому +210

    I was 5 and my mother had one of those, one day we were on the GRA (Rome highway) at almost 150 km/h and overtook a 355 GTS that was cruising in the right lane, cheering like we won the world championship. Half a km later we had to stop at a service area for overheating, water from the radiator cap was sprinkling like a fountain. 355 owner stopped for refuel and paid us a coffee. I recognize that moment as my petrolhead initiation.

    • @wwiertus
      @wwiertus 5 років тому +4

      fiat 125p don't have radiator ))) its not water cooled 600 ccm engine (very early models),650 cm (later version) and 700 ccm ( used in 126p bis ,engine made by Lancia) , So your story with fountain of water from radiator is not true))) However speed 120kmh with 650ccm was normal with 4 passangers, with 2 passangers 140kmh was possible

    • @gabrieletuzi5411
      @gabrieletuzi5411 5 років тому +19

      @@wwiertus We had the 126 italian version 700 cc light green 4 gears, probably BIS model as you said, it had a radiator, and it did 150 km/h (probably 143-145 with measurement tolerance), at only-god-knows-rpms. Radiator cap was in the upper back on right side when you opened the boot. Was i there that day or it was you? Unbelievable hating these days.....

    • @wwiertus
      @wwiertus 5 років тому +3

      @@gabrieletuzi5411 126p Bis (700ccm) could get into 150 km-h. 650ccm could get 140 like I said with 2 adult , or 125 with 4 adult . maximum speed 105 km-h was according some long distance test drive. So in fact it was interpolation . not a top speed on this particular moment. 600 and 650 ccm was air cooled, 700 ccm with Lancia engine was water cooled. Polski fiat 126p was development of Italian 126. more power. adaptation to colder climate, service etc. it was all polish development which make this car better then Italian original. same story was 125 127 134 142

    • @gabrieletuzi5411
      @gabrieletuzi5411 5 років тому

      @@wwiertus I suppose you're right. thanks for the infos.

    • @londonfinancial
      @londonfinancial 5 років тому +8

      the usual version did 105km/h the big one 700cm 115km/h there's NO WAY this thing could go 150km/h unless falling from a high brigde

  • @SuperMarioPL89
    @SuperMarioPL89 4 роки тому +569

    This brings back memories .. me my parents and my 2 sisters and a dog on a 12 hour journey to the seaside .. 😂😂

    • @Mash-e1w
      @Mash-e1w 4 роки тому +25

      Amazing how a car can bring back so many memories.

    • @danish5332
      @danish5332 4 роки тому +14

      how can you fit 5 person and a dog on that small car tho😂😂

    • @oskar744
      @oskar744 4 роки тому +63

      @@danish5332 where there's a will, there's a way 👌🏻

    • @Wakeupproductions
      @Wakeupproductions 4 роки тому +1

      I'm from Italy

    • @djviruspl
      @djviruspl 4 роки тому +5

      @@danish5332 U Dont know the life :) I remember when it was around 6-7 of us inside ;) But record is i think more than 12 ;)

  • @millaguisan
    @millaguisan 5 років тому +342

    I've been living in Poland for the last 10 years, and I've never seen a non-Polish review of a Maluch so nice, natural, and honest about it. Regards from Poland, I'm Colombian btw and getting Polish citizenship soon :) :) :)

    • @embl_0
      @embl_0 5 років тому +25

      bring me some cocaine

    • @zedtrek
      @zedtrek 5 років тому +13

      @@embl_0 Apparently you can drink Themes water, it's basically cocaine.

    • @kilgoretrout6136
      @kilgoretrout6136 5 років тому +13

      Colombian in Poland. Interesting.

    • @NearToTruth
      @NearToTruth 5 років тому +7

      Good luck with getting your citizenship!

    • @spectacular-fj5rm
      @spectacular-fj5rm 5 років тому

      @@embl_0 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @duroprem
    @duroprem Рік тому +12

    Other than in Poland, this thing was also licensed and built by Zastava in the former Yugoslavia under the designaton 126 PGL. Which in turn gave birth to the nickname "Peglica" which roughly translated means "little iron" (as in the iron you do your ironing with). It was decently popular here and it was my mother's first car back in the day. And like in Poland, we still smile every time we see it on the road these days, which is extremely rarely.

    • @franfinesim
      @franfinesim 8 місяців тому

      Same in the Balkans! We start smiling, when we see Peglica, Yugo, Ficho or Stojadin

    • @alexandermathar7780
      @alexandermathar7780 6 місяців тому

      Just imagine Bricklin hand imported the Yugoslav Peglica 126 for the incredible price of 3000 $!

  • @waldemarpierzchalski
    @waldemarpierzchalski 5 років тому +316

    It's faster than light, when you drive fast enough the lights are dimming.

  • @hub7569
    @hub7569 5 років тому +715

    Good choice Matt 👌☺️ Best regards from Poland 🇵🇱

    • @leothekitten9810
      @leothekitten9810 5 років тому +1

      Huba Popolsku jestesz?

    • @hub7569
      @hub7569 5 років тому

      @@leothekitten9810 yeap 😎

    • @hub7569
      @hub7569 5 років тому +2

      @@dominikkowalski3499 tak wiem że to Włoski fiat ale mieliśmy takiego maluszka kiedys i dobrze kojarzy się z PL

    • @dominikkowalski3499
      @dominikkowalski3499 5 років тому

      Patrze i ro polski fl tylko nie napisał 126p

    • @kirbs2546
      @kirbs2546 5 років тому +2

      elo polacy sie gromadzą

  • @Spencer481
    @Spencer481 5 років тому +233

    6:27 adjustable intermittent wipe AND flashing hazards?! I didn't realize this was a luxury car

    • @lt1caprice57l
      @lt1caprice57l 5 років тому +4

      I mean even my $38,000-in-1990 Volvo 760 station wagon doesn't have adjustable intermittent

  • @littlebluepanda394
    @littlebluepanda394 3 роки тому +17

    One of my teachers when I was at school had a 126p and I never knew what the "p" meant. Thirty years later I just found out - thanks Mat.

    • @errorelo1774
      @errorelo1774 3 роки тому +2

      126p Maluch = 126 Polish little

  • @madmen2505
    @madmen2505 5 років тому +161

    the engine sound instantly transported me in my childhood. Thanks

  • @thomasnowotny7616
    @thomasnowotny7616 5 років тому +156

    My grandparents went to England in fiat 126p 😁 . 1750km from Poland to Nottingham .

    • @petrberanek4230
      @petrberanek4230 5 років тому +2

      How about from Guayana to Ushuhaia, Australia to Thailand and from India to Czech Republic ? Sadly, first Fiat was rotten away after two years, therefore theu used second for second and third journey.

    • @lukascholaj6842
      @lukascholaj6842 5 років тому +4

      My grandparents went on a road trip to turkey in one of these from poland, truly a hilarious car, love seeing them out and about

    • @ternf8608
      @ternf8608 5 років тому +3

      My parents drove from Tanzania to Cairo - then a boat to Venice and on to Rome in a Fiat 1500. Back in the 1960s.

    • @phoenix06aneser24
      @phoenix06aneser24 5 років тому +3

      szacunek

    • @victorstoulm3356
      @victorstoulm3356 5 років тому

      To musialo byc straszne

  • @derpy_blue
    @derpy_blue 4 роки тому +55

    In Poland we always call those cars "Maluch". It means "Small One" or "Kiddo". You can still see them on the streets quite often. Maluch is really near and dear to our hearts :)

    • @dixxon28
      @dixxon28 Рік тому +2

      it stands for toddler

  • @SkeetRadar
    @SkeetRadar 3 роки тому +83

    this is probably gonna mess up my recommendations, but I love how practical and simple this car is. I feel like it'd be a great one to convert to electric.

    • @KayDotG0121
      @KayDotG0121 3 роки тому +7

      they already did years ago :D two different people both with different ways but electric :D and it sounds like tesla xD
      check out these links
      ua-cam.com/video/EWScwVUPexU/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/j0vOGD0Ch80/v-deo.html
      its in polish tho and no subtitles. but still very cool. ^^

    • @angryboi801
      @angryboi801 3 роки тому +3

      A polish man actually made an electric one, it straight up looks like it could be put into production

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 2 роки тому

      ppl have done it

    • @GabrielRodrigues-ej2ul
      @GabrielRodrigues-ej2ul 2 роки тому +1

      Converting it to eletric takes all the soul out of the car

  • @kimsuarez9286
    @kimsuarez9286 5 років тому +102

    I grew up in Cuba, our first car was a "Polaquito" little polish like we call them. It was fantastic. Yes they were very sought after. My father earn the right to buy it at work. Yes, that is how the stuff used to be back then. I don't know how it manage but we were able to go up and down mountains with it

    • @OlekW
      @OlekW 4 роки тому +3

      It was brave car :-) The same in Poland.

  • @eeervin3
    @eeervin3 5 років тому +144

    Sign up for it, then wait for years - basically the same purchasing experience you get with a Tesla but in Poland they had that in the 70's already!!!

    • @TheGearhead222
      @TheGearhead222 5 років тому +2

      Same purchase history as the EG Trabant-People waited for YEARS to receive their car, so the used ones were more $ than the new ones!-John in Texas

    • @VanlifewithAlan
      @VanlifewithAlan 5 років тому +1

      As I recall from Poland in the eighties the waiting list was much longer than two years - although there may have been times when the waiting list was 'only' two years!

  • @Omar.F87
    @Omar.F87 5 років тому +300

    Lap it around the Nürburgring! That would be fun to watch 😂😂

    • @tomaszbartkow3552
      @tomaszbartkow3552 5 років тому +5

      Been done already...

    • @Robertslawno
      @Robertslawno 5 років тому +5

      Do you have free weekend ^^?

    • @stevemarroquin9766
      @stevemarroquin9766 5 років тому

      OA 84 speaking of Lap, his shoulder seat belt... what happened to it???

    • @TheSeanUhTron
      @TheSeanUhTron 5 років тому +17

      We're still waiting for the lap time. It's been 20 years but it still hasn't completed a lap.

    • @muzgnasicianie
      @muzgnasicianie 5 років тому +2

      It is possible with this driver ua-cam.com/video/YdBuwzRAEAw/v-deo.html in this „maluch” ua-cam.com/video/q5xv5iXLNcg/v-deo.html

  • @niespiebozwiedzamszkocje
    @niespiebozwiedzamszkocje 3 роки тому +2

    Im polish and 42 this year, been living in Scotland since 2005 so quite a wee while now:) And what i can tell is you made my eyes wet cos i owned 4 of them back in the 90'. One of them was 1979 then another two from late 80' and my last one was a pure beast after tunning in 1995! :) great film btw :D

  • @jimmihenry
    @jimmihenry 5 років тому +82

    4:00 back in the 80's in Poland you would have't got enough time to
    smoke a cigarette, this is how fast someone would stop to help you.

  • @sidrp
    @sidrp 5 років тому +499

    Devoid of safety, devoid of comfort , can go through narrow corners , horn is weird, makes so much noise ....
    How is this car not in India ....

    • @venkatasaikrishnat2551
      @venkatasaikrishnat2551 5 років тому +5

      You forgot nano

    • @appoptartz5493
      @appoptartz5493 5 років тому +17

      @@venkatasaikrishnat2551 Yeah absolutely the 600 cc nano is the fiat 126 of India.

    • @blackfire_x2964
      @blackfire_x2964 5 років тому +5

      Maruti 800

    • @windoak
      @windoak 5 років тому +1

      siddharth ragupatruni you have the 800, Pakistan gets the mehran

    • @shifty2755
      @shifty2755 5 років тому +25

      Theres no roof rack for the rest of your family.

  • @mr.wyrzykowski7522
    @mr.wyrzykowski7522 4 роки тому +85

    my grandmother drove one of these. from the north of Poland. from elblag, to Sofia in Bulgaria. that was in the 70s or 80s. she said this car was amazing

  • @OFFICIAL-H-RUBBER
    @OFFICIAL-H-RUBBER Рік тому +4

    Fun fact: this car was also nicknamed "Kaszlak" (from word Kaszel which means cough", due to the sound it's engine is making. As somebody who grew up in Poland in the 90s I can also say that if you owned one of these you were one of the cool kids hahaha. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed watching it ☺

  • @Michas333
    @Michas333 5 років тому +175

    it does a 0 - 100 quite fast, if you're falling off a cliff.

    • @pablo7610
      @pablo7610 4 роки тому +2

      Michaś 😂😂😂😂

    • @janpintar5665
      @janpintar5665 4 роки тому +3

      Otherwise its 0-100 is measured with a calendar

    • @supreme3376
      @supreme3376 3 роки тому

      @Piotr Otulakowski 29
      bbut close

  • @onesandzeroes
    @onesandzeroes 5 років тому +42

    I did my driving course in this thing, including the final test. Back in early 1990s this was still virtually the only car used by driving schools in Poland.

    • @indiekiddrugpatrol3117
      @indiekiddrugpatrol3117 5 років тому

      Pawel X they stopped in 2002 I think

    • @mravg79
      @mravg79 5 років тому

      @@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 quite possible, 1996 still 126p was what I had during the driving lessons as well as during the exam.
      Two years later I got one it was my first car and with all bad that can be said about it is was fun to drive. I had the "facelift" version. from the outside and partly old partly new in the inside. it was renovated after the crash.

  • @for-real-tho
    @for-real-tho 3 роки тому +132

    I'm Hungarian, my friend had one of these in around 2004. It was still commonly used back then, but now all of them have disappeared from the roads. There are only 16 for sale currently in the entire country.

    • @Midaspl
      @Midaspl 3 роки тому +9

      88 for sale in Poland. Back at the beginning of 2000's you could get one for 2-3 bottles of vodka. Now they cost more than my current car, lol.

    • @robertkukuczka6946
      @robertkukuczka6946 2 роки тому +4

      @@Midaspl Minden jót. Én lengyel vagyok aki Magyarországon szolgálok és tanusitom hogy a lengyel 125 volt a legjobb.

  • @kitingforlife
    @kitingforlife 3 роки тому +2

    I got the exact model of this car (I was 20) back in 1979 (Including the color). I drove it in some scary conditions, like fresh deep snow and on long distance trips loaded with people and luggage. One of my favorite “features” was the stretching starter cable. After some time, the only way to start the car was to push the starter from behind with a stick. The fuse box was in the hood trunk and the way to get the ignition on was to put a coin between the first and the second fuse, which made it the easiest car to steal. Thanks for the video. It made my day!

  • @sameerafokeena2271
    @sameerafokeena2271 5 років тому +122

    1. So whats it like on a twisty road ???
    2 . Drag race between that Fiat 126 and a Renault Twizy
    3. Drag race between a Rolls Royce Sweptail and a Bugatti La Voiture Noir

    • @KonKnd
      @KonKnd 5 років тому +3

      Twizy would drop this lil rattle can

    • @sameerafokeena2271
      @sameerafokeena2271 5 років тому

      @@KonKnd It does have 6 hp less than the Fiat 126

    • @KonKnd
      @KonKnd 5 років тому +4

      @@sameerafokeena2271 love the 126p but the power is worse than a bicycle and you can't launch it because everything will fall apart 😂😂

    • @sameerafokeena2271
      @sameerafokeena2271 5 років тому

      @@KonKnd oh yea good point 👍

    • @KonKnd
      @KonKnd 5 років тому

      @@sameerafokeena2271 still wanna see a race between them !!

  • @Jesuswarnedus
    @Jesuswarnedus 5 років тому +20

    Back in 1978 in the US my best friend had a fiat and we took that thing everywhere. No mud hole could stop it n we had a blast in it. God Bless!!

  • @SQ8MXT
    @SQ8MXT 5 років тому +151

    My father drove from Lublin to Rome in one of those which is almost 2000km one way back in the 80s ;)

  • @nathansstuff1547
    @nathansstuff1547 3 роки тому +15

    I see a DankPods video where he's bought this car, and now I see this.

  • @goexplorecroatiaadventures7630
    @goexplorecroatiaadventures7630 5 років тому +108

    In Yugoslavia we called it "peglica", which means little iron (for ironing clothes) :-)

    • @crvenilimun5036
      @crvenilimun5036 4 роки тому +1

      Ahhahahah jeste i fico ovamo u CG se i dalje voze

    • @lieutenantbigz938
      @lieutenantbigz938 4 роки тому

      This car looks nothing like Iron :D

    • @regularjoe9032
      @regularjoe9032 4 роки тому

      🤣

    • @Milen4u
      @Milen4u 4 роки тому +2

      And in Bulgaria "сапунерка" which means soap-dish :) maybe that's the car with most nicknames

  • @timbarito5586
    @timbarito5586 5 років тому +475

    Click on the top banner to see how much you can save on a new 1982 fiat 126 lolol

    • @KNhunterX
      @KNhunterX 5 років тому +23

      I legit was expecting Matt to say the intro jokes, and have the Carwow intro played, and then Matt explaining how much you can save. I laughed way too hard

    • @JohnDoe_Poland
      @JohnDoe_Poland 5 років тому +4

      Hahahahaha

    • @mikerelvas
      @mikerelvas 5 років тому +3

      You win lol

    • @ilya.b
      @ilya.b 5 років тому +12

      More important question is:
      Should we avoid it?
      Shold we consider it?
      Should we shortlist it?
      or
      Should we just go ahead and buy the little Polski Fiat 126p?

    • @JohnDoe_Poland
      @JohnDoe_Poland 5 років тому +6

      write2chrome and the answer is! Buy it as a second or even third car if you’re over 35” you’ll appreciate it!

  • @WestSussexBiker
    @WestSussexBiker 5 років тому +67

    I owned a Fiat 126. What a fun car to drive. Brilliant whizzing around London. Pull the little in lever in the middle of the seats and your off. Drove to holiday in Spain and back. The things we do in our late teens

    • @mineborders
      @mineborders 5 років тому +3

      @Bob Dole What

    • @romanr374
      @romanr374 5 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/cOw0nLwU_U0/v-deo.html

    • @romanr374
      @romanr374 5 років тому

      Spain ? not problem

    • @romanr374
      @romanr374 5 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/JtTBek5saKY/v-deo.html

  • @itisorisit
    @itisorisit 3 роки тому +20

    "Soft touch material" on the dashboard, a.k.a. the airbag

  • @fazekaslaszlo
    @fazekaslaszlo 5 років тому +43

    I grew up in Hungary and used to see Polish families of four plus luggage on top driving 800 miles down to lake balaton in these tiny cars

    • @gtarbmx
      @gtarbmx 5 років тому

      love from poland

    • @OlekW
      @OlekW 4 роки тому

      I was at Balaton but with my big Polonez next after Fiat 126p popular car in Poland.

  • @WoWMinGM
    @WoWMinGM 5 років тому +266

    Engine in the back, RWD and straight cut gears? Race car confirmed.

    • @radekr1234
      @radekr1234 5 років тому +30

      Indeed, ua-cam.com/video/YdBuwzRAEAw/v-deo.html

    • @bossingtonhillforever4267
      @bossingtonhillforever4267 5 років тому +43

      2 door italian car, engine in the back, rear wheel drive, if you get it in rosso red it's almost a Ferrari.

    • @Me-eb3wv
      @Me-eb3wv 5 років тому +1

      @@bossingtonhillforever4267 sick

    • @MrTeusX
      @MrTeusX 5 років тому +2

      @@bossingtonhillforever4267 its not an italian car ;) Polish

    •  5 років тому +2

      And air cooled ;-)

  • @krisleeman4777
    @krisleeman4777 5 років тому +41

    Your fascination with this car made me so much fun. I was laughing like a baby. Really, man, the way you describe is awesome. In the eighties, when I was a child sometimes during the extremely boring lessons we used to play the game called "car counting". The rules were simple. You were supposed to choose one brand of a car and your opponent some another one. The third impartial pupil called "judge" was counting cars as they were passing by the school building. It's a no-brainer to guess that the winner was whose total amount of cars appeared more times by the end of the lesson. But there was only one exception: once you've chosen Fiat 126P, your opponent was entitled to pick two more brands because there were so many of them in the streets. Otherwise, simply you wouldn't have had a chance to win. By the way, there was another popular name for the car instead of "maluch"(malooh). It was "kaszlak". In transcription, it would be something like "cashlack". And it doesn't have anything to do with having no money ;) It means that the specific sound of its engine is similar to a person who has a cough.

  • @WildFire-pg2ll
    @WildFire-pg2ll 3 роки тому +8

    I'm in Poland rn visiting my family, then I saw the 126, my mom said "it's an incredible car, it can hold 11 persons in it !" And alot of other things...

  • @dreamofmirrors
    @dreamofmirrors 5 років тому +16

    It is amazing to see how a car like this can stir so many emotions. I doubt any modern car can do that.

  • @rad8825
    @rad8825 5 років тому +31

    Having owned 2 of these in my teenage years (they were often cheaper to buy then repair), I enjoyed the nostalgia, then it turned to ptsd.

  • @gabriele1695
    @gabriele1695 4 роки тому +30

    omg my great-grandfather had one of these! he left it to my mom when he passed away, so at the time the car was already like 25 years old lol. i remember she used to bring me to preschool in that! she used to call it her 'mouse-gray treasure'. my memories of it are quite vague, but i remember how fun it felt to ride along southern italy's narrow streets in it.
    i'm 18 now. i'll never forget my dear 126.

  • @kevinbezon3108
    @kevinbezon3108 3 роки тому +11

    what a beautiful nugget this is, someone's been in here for sure

  • @mihajlotravels
    @mihajlotravels 5 років тому +122

    In Serbia we call it 'Peglica' which translates to 'little iron'

    • @Jojo-ox9kw
      @Jojo-ox9kw 5 років тому +6

      In Macedonia we call it the same :D

    • @taurus3694
      @taurus3694 5 років тому +12

      In Croatia too... Legendary car.

    • @davkime1
      @davkime1 5 років тому +1

      I remember visiting former Yugoslavia / Serbia when I was 10 years old and my grandfather had a Zastava “Fiat” named “Peglica” that’s funny.

  • @mateuszkowalski9229
    @mateuszkowalski9229 4 роки тому +46

    It is very nice of you to show a Polish car. I am from Poland and my father had an identical car. Our Polski Fiat had a thermometer in the center of the steering wheel. Greetings from Poland. 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

    • @livinginamerica923
      @livinginamerica923 Рік тому +1

      is not a polish car...it was also manifactured in Poland

  • @Ashen4g
    @Ashen4g 5 років тому +78

    Respect. Your passion for cars is inspiring. Polski Fiat also sounds cute. What a cute little car just makes me go awwwwww

  • @dominikjarych6065
    @dominikjarych6065 2 роки тому +2

    I'm Polish guy living in Germany. Cut the long story short, big respect man. I did my licence with this car, was not so easy because I'm 193cm high. Later on I drove polski fiat 126p with a friend of mine more than a 100km/h in a city. Still have goose bombs thinking of it. Take care.

  • @Freyu92
    @Freyu92 5 років тому +94

    it aint much but its honest work
    greets from Poland

    • @tree9380
      @tree9380 5 років тому +4

      Maluch

    • @catamenia8485
      @catamenia8485 5 років тому +1

      9gag

    • @acidlunatic6414
      @acidlunatic6414 5 років тому +1

      @KiratCan Kerem Poland is much modern now, but we still have old slav manner. Our present government is a little shitty, but I recommend to go on a short vacation to Poland, we have really nice beaches, mountains, and lakes, but language is hard as fuck XD

  • @ZGRAKIJU
    @ZGRAKIJU 5 років тому +55

    i remember entire families arriving in yugoslavia in this car.....with cargo on the roof.....it was insane

    • @Kyrichenko
      @Kyrichenko 5 років тому +6

      "Peglica" was nickname for it in Yugoslavia :D

    • @MrNoone-dg2xn
      @MrNoone-dg2xn 5 років тому +1

      You forgot the Camping trailer in the back^^

    • @jakubukleja5383
      @jakubukleja5383 4 роки тому

      With 23 horsepower. Why do sedans need 150 again?

  • @mariuszsiemek2757
    @mariuszsiemek2757 5 років тому +58

    Wow Matt :) this was my first car, he motorized our country. Greetings from Poland!

  • @acev1212
    @acev1212 Рік тому +9

    Jeździłem taką maszyną pamiętam😂😂... to były piękne czasy I ten dźwięk i wrażenia

  • @januszolx7856
    @januszolx7856 5 років тому +2277

    Ten komentarz jest aby potwierdzić liczbę Polaków przy tym odcinku

    • @DRMSLV.
      @DRMSLV. 5 років тому +37

      Nie wywołuj wilka z lasu xd

    • @RobBob555
      @RobBob555 5 років тому +3

      ENGLISH ONLY !

    • @januszolx7856
      @januszolx7856 5 років тому +36

      @@RobBob555 i see you don't like our country, you shouldn't write that comment then. I do respect all countries becouse they are all important unlike you.

    • @Matt-di6nb
      @Matt-di6nb 5 років тому +13

      @@RobBob555 There is something called translate on google. I know it might not translate exactly but still

    • @louisbeerreviews8964
      @louisbeerreviews8964 5 років тому +9

      rob b -polish people do speak English

  • @pph192
    @pph192 5 років тому +22

    I'm a Mexican currently living in Poland and I still remember the first time I saw the Mały.
    That little car stole my heart and made me miss my VW Beetle. If I could stay to live here or it wasn't so incredibly hard and expensive to import one to Mexico I'd definitely buy one for myself.
    Thanks for the tour.

  • @Flight-of-Life
    @Flight-of-Life 5 років тому +97

    That was my dad's first car when he left the navy for uni!

  • @Depression156
    @Depression156 3 роки тому +5

    thats a beautiful looking nugget right there. make sure to always keep your emergency wood in the front trunk

  • @goostec33
    @goostec33 5 років тому +31

    And my childhood memories are back! 🇵🇱
    I've noticed it's got polish tyres fitted too!
    THANKS MATT

  • @maciejen
    @maciejen 5 років тому +243

    Amazing car. Poles also call it "kaszlak" this roughly can be translated to "cough-er". :D

    • @mackipacki2528
      @mackipacki2528 5 років тому +21

      maciejen really? In my part of Poland we call it the ‘maluch’ but I’ve never heard it being called that.

    • @wrona-ry2ey
      @wrona-ry2ey 5 років тому +43

      Yea maluch was call kaszlak for shure im remember that

    • @maciejen
      @maciejen 5 років тому +8

      @@mackipacki2528 yup just listen to that engine start sound :) Maluch is more common name for this car though.

    • @wino0000006
      @wino0000006 5 років тому +13

      Yep - "kaszlak" is his second name - due to the engine sound especially when starting up.

    • @nasion420
      @nasion420 5 років тому +1

      @@mackipacki2528 XD RLY?

  • @MassimoBolognaItaly
    @MassimoBolognaItaly 3 роки тому +1

    My father used to have this car in the 70s... it's the first car I can remember being into, and this video brings back so many memories.... It was just as basic as it looks, basically metal, plastic and some wiring. I remember pushing that odd gummy button to spray some water on the windows , the hardest you pushed, the more water you got !

  • @dagerteus
    @dagerteus 5 років тому +21

    Greetings from Czech Republic.
    Have one ,built 1997. Already new ignition and steering .
    Modified it a bit with short transmission and more power of original engine around 35 HP and it's funniest car I had .
    Call it small Porsche too.

    • @alankrawczyk9506
      @alankrawczyk9506 5 років тому

      Yea bro you are my neighbour because i am from poland

  • @zorktxandnand3774
    @zorktxandnand3774 5 років тому +144

    "You do want the stereo to work"
    Ahem... the Mono!

    • @enam9000
      @enam9000 5 років тому

      Hehe! 😂

    • @billl605
      @billl605 5 років тому

      He wouldn't be able to hear it for the road noise.

    • @zorktxandnand3774
      @zorktxandnand3774 5 років тому +1

      @@billl605 It's one of those cars where you can hear that the radio is on, but have got no idea what it's playing.
      Just one more thing to add to the noise.

    • @supreme3376
      @supreme3376 3 роки тому

      More like WHAAAT I did not HEAR U

  • @dank3599
    @dank3599 5 років тому +26

    Love it! I owned a 1972 Fiat 500 when I lived in Germany in the early 80's. Not only did I drive it all over Europe, I slept in it more than once! Cheers.

    • @deltanovember1672
      @deltanovember1672 5 років тому

      Dan K Lol, how did you sleep in it? They’re so small.

    • @dank3599
      @dank3599 5 років тому

      @@deltanovember1672 In a word, fitfully! We had to pile all our gear outside.

    • @dank3599
      @dank3599 5 років тому +1

      i.vgy.me/8UmrSN.png

    • @deltanovember1672
      @deltanovember1672 5 років тому

      Dan K We? There was more than one asleep in that car? Wow.

    • @deltanovember1672
      @deltanovember1672 5 років тому

      Dan K Coca Cola stripe, love it. 😍

  • @hatboi_xd
    @hatboi_xd 3 роки тому +8

    Its an absolute NUGGET!

  • @Borkos16
    @Borkos16 4 роки тому +269

    We have a saying in Poland about this car
    "The crumple zone ends at the engine" xD

    • @lukaszszewczyk8571
      @lukaszszewczyk8571 3 роки тому +3

      And it starts on drivers knees😋😁

    • @fosterfuchs
      @fosterfuchs 3 роки тому

      My mom had a Fiat 126 when I was a child. It got rear ended once. I was in the back seat at the time. I was OK. But even though the impact was not strong, the damage to the rear of the car was quite severe.

    • @Borkos16
      @Borkos16 3 роки тому

      @@anabukis.9528 bs ? Whyyy

    • @artur6912
      @artur6912 3 роки тому +1

      @@anabukis.9528 Yes they did, just like they did say that the maluch has heated rear mirror so your hands won't get cold when you're pushing it. Also I'm not sure if you understand this, but it's a joke, that imply it's a deathtrap since you know, the engine is in the rear.

  • @gorankordic8106
    @gorankordic8106 5 років тому +20

    In Croatia (or better to say ex Yugoslavia) they used to call it "peglica", which is literally translated to "little iron" (as in iron for ironing clothes).

    • @phrodendekia
      @phrodendekia 5 років тому

      Here in argentina we call "little iron" to the chainsaw with the handle on top, for prunning.
      "Planchita"

  • @budmike6363
    @budmike6363 5 років тому +95

    In hungary it's nicknamed "kis polski" which translates to little polski. It sure is an iconic little car.

    • @ivanpen8264
      @ivanpen8264 5 років тому +14

      In Cuba it's nicknamed "Polakito". Same translation.

    • @Georgije2
      @Georgije2 5 років тому +5

      In Slovenia we call it Bolha, which means Flea :)

    • @zjebowita5000
      @zjebowita5000 5 років тому

      little polski is small fiat.

    • @thomashowarth4818
      @thomashowarth4818 5 років тому

      in the uk this is what we call a bag of wank

    • @jasonpwnd
      @jasonpwnd 5 років тому +1

      Who knew this little car was so iconic in so many places?? Each with different languages and all giving it essentially the same name 😂 😂 😂

  • @witoldtosta4242
    @witoldtosta4242 5 місяців тому

    Hello Mat. This was my first car right after passing my high school exams in 1994. My little Fiat was manufactured in 1983. I replaced the seats with bucket seats and my friend got me a better steering wheel. In addition, it required many body and engine repairs. I immediately installed a cassette recorder and Pioneer speakers on the back shelf. Those were the times, Metallica, Clawfinger and Rage Against The Machine were always playing. The times of my youth in the 90s will never come back. They were the best. The best parties and music.

  • @kotonekkotonowski6990
    @kotonekkotonowski6990 5 років тому +17

    Respect Mat. I used to drive Maluch in 1996/1997 as my main car. Best wishes from Poland

  • @miltfrangos5997
    @miltfrangos5997 5 років тому +15

    Here's a tip:
    Fuel gauge is most probably connected to the reserve light pin instead of the floater resistor, hence the gauge problem. Reversing the connectors on the fuel tank should fix this.

  • @romeosima5601
    @romeosima5601 4 роки тому +36

    I remember, in 80' , polish people (tourists )used to come in Romania driving this tipe of cars.....simple engineering..... nice

    • @umbilicalcord
      @umbilicalcord 3 роки тому

      I've seen some in Greece back in the day

  • @nicodipietro
    @nicodipietro 10 місяців тому

    Oh my goodness! THANK YOU for bringing this old little one back to life in 2024 and getting her known in the cyber universe! I was SO MUCH IN LOVE with this car when I was a little kid!!!! This brings memories!!!

  • @theSaintXL
    @theSaintXL 5 років тому +195

    Maluch forever! Dziękuję za film :D

  • @gergelykondas7842
    @gergelykondas7842 4 роки тому +24

    This car was very popular here in Hungary.
    Thanks Mat for this video!
    You're a great man by testing not only the best & newest cars but the old ones as well!

  • @radior28
    @radior28 5 років тому +61

    Memories 😁
    My first and second cars were 126p. With some easy modifications you can get around 34bhp on 650cc engine.
    Enjoy it. And remember to grease the front hubs/steering knuckle quite often.

  • @cmdrTremyss
    @cmdrTremyss 2 роки тому

    From Hungary. In the early 90's, my family's first car was one of these in orange. My little brother and me were kids back then. My father is a very tall man and I remember he bumped his head into the top every time we drove through a road bump. It was so comic
    We made big holiday trips with it, suitcase strapped to the top, bags around our legs and in your lap too. But the thing I remember most fondly is the moment when he proudly showed us his car. Our car. Me and my brother couldn't believe it our family finally got one. We were in awe. I remember it's licence plate number even today.