American reacts to Germany’s Oldest Street-Legal Car | 1894 Benz Victoria
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2022
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„I guess you guys say kilometers to the gallon“
That’s the most American thing I’ve heard in years and it’s hilarious on several levels :D
The german word for (car) trunk is "Kofferraum", which is a connection of the words "Koffer" (suitcase) and "Raum" (room or area). And we measure the fuel-consumption not in km per gallon. Our usual way of measurement is liter per 100 kilometers. (for exampel 25 mpg = 9.41 l/100km)
yeah, L/KM means the smaller the number, the better. With MPG it is the larger the number, the better.
Germans love vehicles with large trunks (Kofferraum) , station wagon vehicles. (called Kombi)
I think it’s more Raum in the meaning of space.
and suddenly i know where the word Kufr for trunk in czech comes from
@@DJKLProductions That's right, my fault.
Fun fact about this car: The german computer system for this kind of stuff has a limit coded of 1.1.1900 as the lowest possible date for the first license plate - so this car has put 1994 put inside and in the remark that is is 1894.
As a Dutch I love you're enthousiasm for our neighbours. They're a weird and slightly geeky bunch, but otherwise verrry correct, polite and overall very friendly. Pretty much the best neighbours one could ask for... set a side that little rumble in the 40s and them occupying all the loungers at pools at 6am!
Hehe, thanks. We love our swampy neighbors, too. Oh, and thanks for the natural gas!
It's either the loungers or other countries.
@@panther7748 Can we agree on swapping Poland?
@@laziojohnny79 No. It smells bad right now.
At least you also have Belgium and mustn't border Fr*nce 🤢
not only the Benz patent was the birth certificate of the automobile from 1886, his wife Bertha was the first human being to drive an internal-combustion-engined automobile over a long distance, field testing the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, inventing brake lining and solving several practical issues during the journey of 105 km (65 miles).with this action she brought the Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention and got the company its first sales.
You also should read up on Bertha Benz, Carl's wife.
One day in 1888, with her sons she took the car to visit her mother a hundred kilometers away and became the first person to drive more than a test route from the garage and back.
Needless to say, they had to get more fuel en route and find ways to fix lots of things with the machinery.
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She also committed the first misdemeanor in German automotive history as she was driving without a license. You see, Carl Benz had to inquire for a special permit to be allowed to operate this odd vehicle on public roads, since German authorities didn't really know what to make of it. That permit also functioned as a driving and operating license - but it was issued exclusively on Carl's name and only valid for him.
@@steso5328 You are replying to an spambot.
@@Merigold83 thanks for your notice
@@Exodon2020 I never heard that bit of history before, thank you. There should be a monument for her in Flensburg 😀
The 1894 Benz Victoria was one of the first 4 wheel cars after the Benz Patentmotorwagen #1. The Ford Model T is 13 years younger, but it is way more powerful and also way faster.
The Numberplate reads "Ein PS" which means 1 HP.
The fuel unit is fuel used / 100 kms. My Toyota Paseo uses 5,5 Liters for 100 kms travelled, thats 40 MPG.
The rear boot is known as "Kofferraum" (suitcase room). A chest is Kiste.
Yes, we do give handsignals on bikes. At least when we want to live a long live.
If you take the "Victoria" on the Autobahn, you are in for a hefty fine, and your license is probably gone too.
A car has to reach over 60 kmh (61 to be exact) to be legal on the Autobahn.
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@pegamini The STVO writes "faster than 60 km/h", bringing us back to the 61 I had written :)
@@LexusLFA554 how does it bring us back to 61? any tiny sliver above 60 is already enough.
@@silkwesir1444 According to driving instructors it has to be *faster* than 60, so at least 61 as numbers after the comma don't count.
I thought a car needs to reach 80kmh to be allowed on an Autobahn but it was never a problem I considered so you may be right XD
8:22: Yes in pharmacies. There is the story that in 1888, Bertha Benz made the first longer car trip and had to refill the tank on the way. She bought ligroin at a pharmacy in Wiesloch, making it the first filling station in the world. This pharmacy still exists.
and has the memorial plaque "1. Tankstelle der Welt" (Worlds first Gas Station)
In Germany there is still the oldest roadworthy Beetle from 1942. The mileage is estimated at 800,000 km, but the speedometer doesn't count that far. In 1955 it got a replacement engine at a whopping 400,000 km.
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I love how the license plate just says "ein PS" (= 1 PS = 1 hp)
The wheel surface on that car is a fraction of a regular tire so the transfer of power required to get them to turn is far less.
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To drive on the „Autobahn“ there are as well regulations. You have to reach at least 60 km/h (37 mph).
„if their maximum speed determined by the design is 60 km/h and more“
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chest = Truhe / trunk = Kofferraum (translated to space for the chest)
Benz Victoria = 1894
Model T = 1908 - 1927
First ever build car "Daimler - Reitwagen" from 1885 (patent).
The first stationary petrol engine developed by Carl Benz is a single-cylinder, two-stroke engine that runs for the first time on New Year's Eve in 1879.
The car was invented by Carl Benz here in germany, the first was the "Benz Motorwagen Nr. 1" in 1886. But Henry Ford was the first to mass produce cars and make them widely availbale with the model T starting in 1908. Diesel and Gasoline (Ottomotor) engines where invented in germany, too. 4 stroke by Nicolaus Otto and Wilhelm Maybach, 2 stroke by Carl Benz. Europeans calculate the gas milage with litres per 100 km.
Benz also built what is considered to be the first car -- and it had a lot of bicycle components. He actually had a bike shop too 🙂 And -- there weren't any cars, so whatever was built back then mostly took inspiration from bikes and carriages. They had trains, but that wasn't a good starting point for a car.
On the positive side, it's one of those things that can be fixed easily. If you talk to the people at the "Deutsches Museums - Masterpieces of Science and Technology" a bit, they might tell you they very much prefer to demo old machines/devices -- because they can fix them when something breaks. Modern machines are difficult/expensive to repair, so they actually prefer getting them on loan -- because then, the manufacturer (usually) will take care of it too.
As for the trunk -- it's not called that, but almost. A literal translation might be "trunk-space" on sedans, or "luggage-space" on station wagons.
As for operating the cars -- Daimler, who was another German car-pioneer, is said to have estimated the worldwide demand for cars at no more than a million, mostly because there weren't enough chauffeurs for them. Again, that's thinking from back when people didn't drive carriages themselves -- I guess nobody expected that getting a "driving license" and learning how to drive would become a standard "coming of age" thing...
As for the fuel -- the very first car that Benz built, he actually wasn't too convinced of it. His wife and his sons more or less stole the car out of the workshop and drove it a neighboring town and back, stopping along the way at pharmacies to refuel... because, again, today's fuels didn't exist.
There were steam-powered cars before, but those were very clumsy and not very practical for the road.
a lot of terminology for cars has been carried over from carriages... so, yes, in the U.S. if you look at old carriages, they have an actual trunk in the rear
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To answer your question regarding the trunk.
Germans are practical.
We're stacking words here :) Plane is literarily "flything" = Flugzeug
Same with gloves. Just shoes for hands. So we call them Handschuh hand shoe
The trunk is the place or the room for our suitcases or bags. We stack em together and get "Kofferraum" wich literarily translates to "bag room" or room for bags.
That's where it comes from here in germany.
Logical, for sure, but I sure wouldn't call it practical. How practical is it to take 3x as long to make a sentence as it does in other languages? Don't get me wrong---I love trying to learn the language, but I just can't seem to get my mouth around half of the words :)
@@CabinFever52 the practical thing is, that you can create any new word out of existing ones and everyone understands it's meaning. Also you won't have to memorize as much vocabluraries as you an just combine the basics and get new words out of it. Sure sentences are much longer in german than in other languages but it's easier to think and sometimes therefore quicker. But yeah that's why I changed from german to english when I read Harry Potter as in english it is much shorter.
The first car was built 1886 by Carl Benz.
And a mere 17 years later, the Wright Brothers built and flew the first plane.
@@SilvanaDil Otto Lillienthal some years before the Wright brothers - But he was flying without an engine - The Wright brothers where (one of) the first flying with an engine powered plane.
@@SilvanaDil it's always a matter of definitions and additional specifiers when someone claims to be "the first" ...
for cars, many americans think that they (ford) invented it, while he only started massproduction on assembly lines, which by itself is a huge achievement too (also for lots of other industrial production), but still not "inventing the car".
and for planes, there were lots of other "planes" before the wright's ... eg gliders which started to prove that something heavier than air can fly (up to 250+ meters, 820ft), done and documented first by Otto Lilienthal around 1891 (in and around Berlin; first experiments starting in 1867), who created the first "modern style wings" and built the first plane factory worldwide (for gliders). he also invented boilers and steam engines and got 25 patents, but didn't do any motorized flight. Orville Wright was in Berlin in 1909 and thanked Lilienthal's widow for all the important work that their plane was based upon when they started their experiments in 1899.
the Wrights improved on those gliders, made them more stable, but got only to max 190m (625ft) of distance while they had no motor yet. their first motor flight in 1903 was only for 37m (120ft). there were also several badly or not at all documented "first motor flights" by other people, and in 2013 connecticut declared by law that Gustav Weißkopf (whose career might have been a bit "unclear", emigrated first to brazil, then undocumented to connecticut, now named Gustave Whitehead) had done the first (crashed against some building) motorflight in 1899, and some newspapers reported about flights in 1901, but mostly based on the reporter, Weißkopf himself, and his assistants, followed by several unmanned planes that had ballast instead of pilots.
the Wrights donated a plane to the Smithonian in exchange for the promise to only ever speak of them as having done the first flight.
i have no idea about the real truth and a lot seems to be (as always) about the best marketing and being the most famous, but the first successfull manned and longtime influential flights seem to have been Lilienthal with gliders and Wrights motorized.
9:32 It is a lot of fun. I once could right along in a similar car. It shackes you down to the core and you wish for an even thicker padding on the seat.
Autobahn requires that your vehicle can drive at least 80km/h. This thing would explode like a shrapnel grenade if hit by another car, speeding with 140km/h.
Autobahn requires that your vehicle must be able to reach speeds above 60 km/h and not 80 km/h
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"miles per gallon"
No, we don`t use km per liter, we say how much fuel we need to get 100 km
So it is liter per 100 km.
16 mpg (Internet says that this is average of a Ford F150) would be 14.7 liter per m100 km.
Which is pretty high. Most cars here will comnsume half of it.
His Museum is in my Hometown. Cool to see the streets i walk through every day.
He has the largest collection of vintage cars in Europe.
Nearly the same here 😊
The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz is a single-cylinder two-stroke that runs for the first time on New Year's Eve in 1879. With this engine, Benz has so much commercial success that he can increasingly devote himself to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a gasoline engine, in which chassis and engine form a single unit.
The most important features of the two-seater vehicle realized in 1885 were the small, high-speed single-cylinder four-stroke engine, mounted horizontally in the rear, the tubular steel frame, the differential and three wire-spoked wheels. The engine produces 0.75 hp (0.55 kW). Details include the automatic intake slide valve, the controlled exhaust valve, the electric high-voltage buzzer ignition including spark plug and the water/thermosiphon evaporative cooling system.
On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz filed a patent application for his "vehicle with gas engine operation." Patent specification DRP 37435 is thus regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. In July 1886, newspapers report on the first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, Type 1.
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Hello, my friend. That's my home town!!! Einbeck in lower saxony. We are a famous beer town. I am very proud of my lite town. Nice. Thanks
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@@Lucas-nw8bw hallo, wir haben hier 1 Brauerei und ich glaube 9 bis 11 sorten bier, meine Favoriten, 1378 ( ja das ist ein bier) und der Mai Bock. Einbeck hat das bockbier erfunden. Zur Zeit der Hanse und Martin Luther waren wir die besten Brauer!!!!!! Geh mal auf die Internet Seite der einbecker Brauerei! 1378 hatten wir 700 Haushalte die bier gebraut haben . By
the cool thing is, he still driving around his Benz.
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The license plate is brilliant.😂👌
Hey Ryan! *german friend wiggeling
Hope you're doing well. Since you started I've fully developed a new habit to first watch your new video when I come home from work and absolutely love your consistency in uploading as it greets me everyday.
In reverse I actually started to watch videos about moving or living new in the states. It really changes your (or better my) view about some typical stereotypes and I always love to see your stunned face when you make the same experience.
Keep up with it and thank you for your interest and lovely content :)
its called "Kofferraum" meaning "suicase room" or trunk room ;)
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If you have the opportunity to visit Germany one day, you should definitely visit the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The federal state of Baden-Württemberg with its capital Stuttgart is known as the cradle of the automobile
But the original Carl Benz Museum is located in Ladenburg, where Carl Benz moved to after his ever first workshop in Mannheim became to small for his business.
But the workshop in T6, 11 in Mannheim is where he actually invented the automobile.
Another museum one can visit while in Stuttgart would be the Porsche Museum, it also has a really nice collection of cars on display. And for a broader approach in terms of tech on Display, the two Technik Muesums in Sinsheim and Speyer are also really great.
@@Enakaji There they have the Soviet space shuttle "Buran" too.
6:10: Yes, to the weather conditions. If the weather is cold, you need a higher petrol/air ratio to run the engine. In modern cars, there is a temperature sensor which adjusts the ratio automatically.
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5:05 in german it’s called „Kofferraum“
A combination of „Koffer“ means literally „suitcase“ but also „luggage“ and „Raum“ means literally „space“ but is also translatable in to „Room“
„Trunk“ is only used by Americans
the Brits call it „boot“
Just to add to the confusion. Trunk is used by the Brits, however it is only used as a name for an elongated nose of an animal such as an elephant trunk or an anteater trunk.
Trunk is also used in British English, but there it is still a big box / crate for travelling.
In German these kind of suitcaes are called Reisekoffer and they were very common in first third of the 20tzh century.
The American word for trunk as part of the car has clearly its origin there.
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8:00 yes giving hand signals to indicate whether you are turning left or right when ridding a bicycle is actually mandatory by law and can be punished with a fine if you didn’t do it properly
But like so many other (actually mandatory) things and rules cyclist didn’t feel the need to do (like stopping at red lights, driving on the street instead of the sidewalk/pavement when there is no designated bike lane etc) the law enforcement for cyclists isn’t pretty strict and authorities let almost everything slide
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With the petroleum Aether, at the time when the car was build, you would the fuel get from the pharmacy too.
The "first gas station" was a pharmacy in Wiesloch. Because back then they didn't have gas stations either.
But Gasoline was still available in large amounts and not all that expensive. Because it was used for laundry.
*(Car) trunk = Kofferraum*
*Koffer = suitcase / trunk*
*Raum = space / room*
So yes, we CALLED it the boot, den Koffer. But since trunks aren't chests anymore, it's called *trunk-space*
:25:20 yes! we call it Koffer-raum because a Koffer is a suitcase and a raum a room. So it's the room (space) where you put your suitcase. What ever yo did with this trunk thingy.
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9:28 No wonder. It becomes unstable at around 30km/h. And over 60 is required there
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Everybody knows that the American Henry Ford invented the car (model T) in 1908. When this car is from 1894 - does that mean Carl Benz stole the idea 14 years before it was invented ? Oh god - history must be rewritten: Benz also invented the time machine (flux generator) !!!
Also: what is a car without an engine ?
Gasoline engine: Nicolaus August Otto (1832-1891)
Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913)
Rotary engine: Felix Wankel (1902-1988)
Electric engine: Werner Siemens (1816-1892) - he didn't invented it but he made the first practicable electric vessel
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Fun fact…license plate states 1HP😜
... aus 3 Liter Hubraum. 🤗
I believe all cars registered to that museum ("PS-Speicher Einbeck") have "PS" and "EIN" is obviously the regional code.
Also, this car has (slightly) more than 1HP. According to Wiki, the Benz Viktoria came with different engines, between 3 and 6 hp. The 3 liter ones being closer to the high limit of the spectrum.
@@nomaam9077 …aber Drehmoment ohne Ende👍
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You wouldn’t be allowed to take this thing on the Autobahn, as there’s a rule that says your vehicle must be capable of driving at least at a speed of 60 km/h ( ~ 37 mph ) in order to not be a hindrance for traffic .
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You definetely have to check out some vids of the Auto Union Race Cars and what they did back in the 1930s. Just mindblowing.
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when this was new, the only way to fill it up were pharmacies, as they carry several chemicals to produce medicine. there were no petrol stations.
and regarding the "blinker" some oldtimers from the 30/40s still had this disc, but later illuminated and electrically operated.
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This car is not allowed on the Autobahn as its max speed ("Bauartbedingte Höchstgeschwindigkeit") is lower than 60km per hour. It's only nine years younger than the first cars.
The first cars looked very much like carriages. Carl Benz's first car was a three-wheeler and when his wife (with the kids) made her famous first day-trip in 1886 from Mannheim to Pforzheim (about 50 miles away) she had to regularly stop at almost every pharmacy to buy petrol. In the same year, Gottlieb Daimler constructed his "motor-carriage" with 4 wheels. Both later merged their companies into what's today Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Until this day people in Mannheim say they work at "Benz", people in Stuttgart say they work at "Daimler".
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Carl Benz built the very first combustion engine car ever!
The first car obviously was modelled after a carriage, with just the horses replaced with an engine. That's why it also has a trunk. What suprises me most is that even after more than 130 years, a car is still just a carriage without horses. Sure, it has a modernized look and lots of electronic shenanigans, but the carriage heritage is still noticeable. Why nobody ever came up with another concept is astounding. And maybe the reason why we now struggle with reasonably electrifying cars.
5:32 We call it the Kofferraum = Trunk(Koffer) room(raum)/ Space for the trunk.
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It drives through my hometown 😃☮️, the museum is in Einbeck and it is really a great place for car/lorry/anything that has wheels and an engine enthusiasts 😊
the trunk in Germany is called trunk-room. I guess it's because you put trunks in it, rather than being the room inside a trunk. 🤔
But you can also put other things in it e.g. a chair
@@vomm so you wanna rename it to "stuff-room"? 🤔 It's just an old word, pretty much like "filming", you don't actually put stuff on a film anymore, but it's still called filming. 🎥
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That car stayed with the family of its first owner, Alexander Gütermann. He was a wealthy industrialist, not coal and steel but sewing threads! That means he had some sense for delicate machinery and toolmaking. The company still exists but is not independent anymore. His family kept the unique vehicle as a souvenir along with a (doubtful) document: Germany's oldest recorded/documented speeding ticket! A. Gütermann was accused of having driven his "motor carriage" through the village of Denzlingen in such a haste that curtains had fluttered. The document is indeed written with a typrewriter that had not been in use in that local police office in 1895, so it might either be a joke or a copy of the original handwritten letter. The four hp version of that "Benz-Victoria" was able to run at 30 km/h (that is nearly 20 miles) on even surfaces but hardly on cobbled streets or dirt roads on its iron-rimmed coach wheels.
We all it a "Kofferraum" and that is close to a Koffer (suitcaseroom, suitcase) so its similar to the trunk use.
yeah you really have to imagine that back then... horseriding without a carriage would certainly be faster and ofc cheaper and way more versatile.
In fact there is a speed limit on the German Autobahn: The vehicle must reach the speed of minimum 60 km/h. This Benz Victoria can only drive up to 30 km/h, so it is forbidden to drive the Victoria on the Autobahn.
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There are some places (like my home, Münster) where you can pay to take a ride on cars like this one. Basically like taking a ride on a horsedrawn carriage.
Nun, der "Prinzipal Express" ist eigentlich ein E-Auto mit alter Karosserie. Aber nett sieht das Ding schon aus! 😃
We use liter per 100 km, because that makes mathematical sense. volume/length will become an area: meter². while the us version is length per volume m/m³ = ??
it is normalized to 100km because then you get a value that is understandable for most people and also 100km makes sense. larger then most daily drives and smaller then most vacation trips.
tl/dr: this is just some nerd stuff for something everyone can understand check out the other comments.
Both systems make sense in a way, the german, or rather european, way determines how much fuel is used to travel a set distance while the US system determines how far you can travel with a set amount of fuel.
@@Enakaji technically correct ^^
1:55 We see liter per 100 kilometer
5:30 A trunk/chest is called "Koffer" in German, and the trunk is called "Kofferraum" (Trunkroom) in german
Victoria Benz
1894-1895 1990 cm³ 130 mm × 150 mm 4 PS (2,9 kW) 500 min−1
until 1895 2 gears, from 1896 2 forward and 1 backward gear
Speed ~25 km/h uses 20l-25l per 100 km
weighed depending on extras 650kg - 780kg
Price tag 4.300.- Mark
Ryan this old timer is not allowed in Autobahn because the lowest lane in Autobahn is I guess 80KpH. Thank you for your video and reactions.
Fahrzeug muss mindestens 60 kmh fahren damit es auch die Autobahn darf
Love his claxon & his jacket is amazing.
The Model T wasn't just the first mass produced car in America; it was the first mass produced car anywhere.
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I also recommend watching the new Meet the Germans series from DW about the different regions of Germany. Northern Germany is already out and the one about southern Germany was just released yesterday. They show a lot about the cultural differences between the regions there (+ Rachel can pronounce German names better than that guy from the Munich video yesterday ;) other than that, nice reaction as always.
I love how he dresses up for the ride.
Really cool car
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The airbags are _literal_ air.
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5:15 in german its Kofferraum what translates 1:1 trunk space. so its a space where you can put your trunk
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That car was 9 years before The original Ford was released in 1903. Peace out.
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The Model T was from 1908, Carl Benz invented the car in 1885, wayyyyyyy earlier!!😛😉
We call it "Kofferraum" would translate to something like Bagroom
5:27 In Germany we call it _Kofferraum_ meaning _suitcase room_ or rather _suitcase space._
5:30 the back of german cars is called "Kofferraum" which basicaly translated to "luggage room" and the front window where you look through while driving is called "Windschutzscheibe" which translates to "windshield window".
In Germany we say Liter per Kilometer
The Trunk of a Car called in German : Kofferraum what directly translated means Chest/Trunk - space/room
Unrelated observation: I don't know if you noticed, but the man in the video is wearing his wedding ring on his right hand. Traditionally, this is wear it is worn in Germany, although many now also wear it on the left hand.
The moment I notice the street I drove through to get to school in the background . . . and THEN I notice the license plate of my hometown . . . I must be blind.
The early VW Beetle's had 6 Volt electricity only, therefore they spared the index lights. Old Beetle's have an indexer sign post hidden in the b-column and when you use the turn signal it is mechanical, the post plops out with cat-eye foil and that's it. No lights, no blinking, no nothing.
That's actually fairly common in pre-1950ies Cars. Some old Trams in Basel have these Things too, but they were retrofitted with additional modern Indicators in order to be Street legal.
Regarding getting petroleum only in pharmacies these days: It was the same back then when the car was new. There simply were no gas stations!
On the trunk, its not the same word. If you consider the box in the back an old suitcase then it would fit, because the word for the trunk of a car is Kofferraum (literaly suitcase space)
fun fact: Ford model t was first manufactured in 1908. So this Benz Victoria is 14 years older.
Fun fact about german Autobahn, your vehicle has to be designed to go more than 60km/h top speed to be allowed to drive there. (Bauartbedingte Höchstgeschwindigkeit) as it is called in german.
The term "minimum speed" does not exist in the Road Traffic Act (StVO). It only says that only vehicles that can drive faster than 60 km/h due to their design are allowed to drive on motorways and motor roads.
Good morning Ryan, a Trunk of the car in German is called "Kofferraum"= Trunk, and a Trunk is called a " Truhe" which means Chest
We don't use gallons as well :) Our way to measure consumption ist liter per 100km. You not only have to calculate the miles/km and liter/gallon thing, you also have to switch from distance per volume to volume per distance. From my point of view it's absolutley impossible to convert these. If someone tells me anything in miles/gallon i have no clue what IT means. Despite knowing the Individual conversions for miles and gallons. Typical consumption for our cars here range roughly from 5 to 10 L per 100km.
this car would not be allowed on germanys autobahn because your vehicle must reacv at least 60 kilometers per hour to be allowed there
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> "I guess you guys say kilometers per gallon"
Most American thing I've heard in a while 😂
yes, the klaxons in movies is correct for the period
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This car is not allowed to go onto the autobahn, since it is too slow. Your car has to be able to drive at least 60km/h or 37,3 m/ph. As for the 'trunk'. In German the word is Kofferraum aka the space for a trunk/the trunks since the trunk itself is called Koffer
This one was really fun :)
Small fact, the first car with a petrol engine was "Carl Benz's motor car" (1885-1886).
Wow that is old. You know 29 kmh was light speed at late 19th Century. Its cool and i would love to drive with it. It is still running.
We don't measure car fuel consumption / efficiency by distance per unit of fuel (ie. miles per gallon) but instead take the amount of fuel consumed per defined distance driven (ie. x liters of fuel per 100 kilometers). With the former being more efficient the higher the number, the latter is more efficient the lower the number.
You have to remember when the first cars were built there were only carriages for horses. Also there were no gas stations, but the pharmacy has the fuels needed.
I do not know how the technical inspection took place. All regulations are designed for today's vehicles and little can be applied to the old vehicle. The lack of hazard warning lights alone is a reason to refuse approval.
I think that other requirements such as front lights, daytime running lights, brake lights, seat belts, airback, anti-lock brakes, etc. are also missing.
For the technical inspection the "standard" of year the car was first registered as street legal is used. A Vintage Car from the 60s only needs to fullfill the requirements of the 60s to pass.
Problem here is that there are no requirements from the 1880s are available, therefore they took the oldest ones they know (maybe the 1950s) and add some restrictions and exceptions.
5:25: In German, you call a trunk or a boot of a car "Kofferraum”, which actually means “space for a trunk”.
6:15 yeah you change the gas air mixture to fit it for cold, hot, and wet conditions or on air pressure on a high platoon
In Germany, we say "Kofferraum" for trunk. This literally means Koffer = suitcase and Raum = room/space.
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Kilometers to the gallon...
We don't use gallons here either ^^
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You can't get it to the Autobahn. To drive there you are required to reach a speed of at least 60 km/h. No vehicle slower than that is allowed to drive on the Autobahn.
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1:30 This was intentional, because it was mend as horseless carriage. Later, they developed a different design.
Trunk in German is Kofferraum, which literally translates to: space for luggage...ehm...suitcases to be exact.
In Sweden we measure fuel consumption in liter per mile. However, our miles are equal to 10 kilometers.
There is a big difference between building the first car or building the first car mass production 20 years later, with working conditions that still exist in the U.S.A.
The Benz Viktoria would not be allowed on the motorway, as you have to drive at least 60 km/h there (unless there are signs regulating it further down, e.g. due to road works, etc.).
I was allowed to ride in a 1904 car at a classic car show about around 25 years ago. A completely different driving experience!
The trunk would be translated a "Kofferraum". A "Koffer" would be translated into suitcase or case while "Raum" is just room. So "Kofferraum" could be translated into room of the case or, well trunk
If you want to drive on the Autobahn, your car has to be able to drive at least 60 km/h (37,2823 mp/h). So you would not be allowed to drive it on it anyways.
Talking about speed: when Der Adler (the Eagle), the first commercially successful (and used) train on German soil took off, "experts" showed up telling passengers to wear lead plates to protect their innards / guts from the "excessive speeds". The speed the train was allowed to go, ordered by the Directorate of the Ludwigsbahn, was 24 to 28 km/h (14,9129 to 17,3984 mp/h). And nowadays we construct rockets and spaceships that go MACH 25 (19181,7 mp/h) in space. :D
The Ford Model T was the first car that was produced on a factory line. Although Mercedes Benz and other companies build already cars for the mass market, they manufactured it manually. Like today Bugattis are built. That was the way people worked back then Henry ford had then the Idea to Use the Factory Line to produce cars faster since every step was repeated many times by the same person which increased the possibilities for process optimization significantly. Therefore Ford was able to sell the Model T for a way lower price to widen the market that could be reached. So in some way the model t itself was maybe not the important part but the fact how it was produced. Since that method started the era of mass production. With all is pros and cons. At least that is what I remember. Correct me please if I am wrong dear internet people.