AMERICAN REACTS TO EUROPEAN CAR BRANDS FOR THE FIRST TIME! 🤯 (GERMANY MAKES THE BEST CARS?!)

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  • @FavourInternational
    @FavourInternational  Год назад +21

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    • @MLWitteman
      @MLWitteman Год назад +2

      I don’t own a car, I ride my bike to get from a to b. And I use public transport. That gets me pretty much everywhere. I don’t I’ll own car anytime soon though.

    • @winterlinde5395
      @winterlinde5395 Год назад +1

      Bike and trains for me. Though we have a 25 year old Audi we took over from the in-laws because it wasn’t worth selling it standing in front of the door For emergencies, I guess 🙄🤷‍♀️

    • @uncle_matula
      @uncle_matula Год назад +1

      Ettore Bugatti is of Italian origin, of course, but he founded the company in France

    • @obradpopovic9814
      @obradpopovic9814 Год назад +1

      I drive a Mazda,but would like a Lexus LFA 😉

    • @Capt.-Nemo
      @Capt.-Nemo Год назад +1

      Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Scania, Lamborghini, Bentley all these are Brand of VW.
      Opel was a brand of GMC.
      From 1998 to 2021 Bugatti was a brand of VW
      Mini and Rolls-Royse are BMW Brands.
      Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati are Fiat Brands
      Smart is a Brand of Mercedes

  • @felixklusener5530
    @felixklusener5530 Год назад +185

    Fun fact: Rolls Royce and Mini are owned by BMW and Bentley and Lamborghini are Volkswagen group brands. Most of the hardware in these cars is engineered in Germany nowadays.

    • @TessaractAlemania-hd7tv
      @TessaractAlemania-hd7tv Год назад +1

      Viva Alemania! ^^

    • @Kokuswolf
      @Kokuswolf Год назад +6

      Skoda and Seat are owned by VW too, if that matters.

    • @mattys5958
      @mattys5958 Год назад +6

      Bugatti is also owned by VW...

    • @mietoo85
      @mietoo85 10 месяцев назад

      Skoda too VW group

    • @SH-yw5qj
      @SH-yw5qj 9 месяцев назад +1

      bugatti was italian and it was selled to france

  • @Spiklething
    @Spiklething Год назад +906

    Germany invented the car

    • @Spido68_the_spectator
      @Spido68_the_spectator Год назад +53

      Some say it's french the first proper car (1888 or 1889, a peugeot ot citroen i can't remember). It used a german engine

    • @pierrestaut2335
      @pierrestaut2335 Год назад +23

      it's french but two are close of it

    • @Capt.-Nemo
      @Capt.-Nemo Год назад +148

      Cars were invented in 1886, when German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

    • @Luredreier
      @Luredreier Год назад +31

      There might be older cars elsewhere that never got a patent, but Germany has the oldest patent on a car.

    • @johnnyb2954
      @johnnyb2954 Год назад +18

      Volkswagen owns Audi, Skoda, Porsche and more brands.

  • @akyhne
    @akyhne Год назад +301

    Seat is not Swedish. It's Spanish. And it's pronounced Se-at.
    The list is also missing a lot of smaller car brands. And I have no idea, why they had one truck brand on the list, while ruling out a dozen others.
    Opel might be an old brand, but they didn't make cars from the beginning.

    • @messman2000
      @messman2000 Год назад +22

      True i was going to sy that, SEAT is Spanish. Also the point about Opel can be said for alot of the brands tho, BMW, Rolls Royce started making airplane engines and Porche made tanks in WW2, also that Renault date is hilarious, 2009 is incorrect, they exist since 1898

    • @Swarmah
      @Swarmah Год назад +5

      saab isnt car manufacturer anymore, they completely moved to military aviation now, and their planes are considered to be better than eurofighter or french fighter jets, and deffo are better than russian ones.
      And BMW started out also as aviation company but switched to cars.
      Lamborghini started as farming equipment manufacturer.

    • @dreckigerdan3739
      @dreckigerdan3739 Год назад +1

      @@messman2000 Renault sucks tho

    • @kinidiosodlosios6892
      @kinidiosodlosios6892 Год назад

      Rimac is missing

    • @alexanderblume5377
      @alexanderblume5377 Год назад

      Seat is a brand of VW, Bently, RollsRoy and so on are owned from German manfuktures.

  • @Groffili
    @Groffili Год назад +174

    "Audi" was a company founded by a guy called "August Horch". "Horch" literally translated to English means "listen!"
    At some point, Horch lost control of his old company, which bore his name, and founded a new one. The rights to the name "Horch" still belonged to the old company, so he was looking for an alternative, and found it in the latin form. "Audi" just means "listen!" in Latin.
    "Volkswagen" literally means "people's car". It was founded during Germany's infamous Nazi era, when Ferdinand Porsche (he of the Porsche sportscar fame) developed the idea of a cheap, simple car that everyone could afford... a car for the people.
    He designed and started to build the very first version of the famous VW Beetle ("Käfer" in German)... though due to the war, not many models reached the people who had ordered - and started to pay for - it.
    "BMW" is the abbreviation for "Bayerische Motorenwerke" - Bavarian Engine Fabrications. They started out as exactly that... producing engines, for cars, motorcycles and planes.
    "Mercedes-Benz" is based on the oldest car producers worldwide - yes, even older than Ford.
    Gottlieb Daimler was granted a patent for a gasoline engine in 1883. Carl Friedrich Benz constructed the first vehicle with an internal combustion engine in 1886.
    The name "Mercedes" is derived from the name of the daughter of one of Daimler's early sellers and racedrivers... Mercedes Jellinek. He came to use this name as advertisement to sell Daimler's cars... image sells.
    The two companies merged in the 1920s to form "Daimler-Benz", and they sold their cars under the brand name of "Mercedes-Benz".
    "Opel" was founded by Adam Opel... but they didn't start to build cars in 1862. They build sewing machines. Precision machines like that lend themselves to diversification, and soon the build bicycles, combustion engines, motorcycles, cars and trucks. The lightning symbol was originally just the sign for a single truck model... the "Opel Blitz (lightning)"... which was such a major success in many variants that it became the symbol for the whole company.

    • @christopherrobertson8098
      @christopherrobertson8098 Год назад +5

      Audi name was actually constructed from the initials of 3 separate manufacturers who were horchs rivals after he lost control of the company pre world war 1 he approached those rivals aiming to form an amalgamation of bran therb

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo Год назад +9

      Audi is Auto Union Horch, DKW, Audi and Wanderer.... thats the reason for the 4 rings!

    • @YouHaventSeenMeRight
      @YouHaventSeenMeRight Год назад +5

      @@christopherrobertson8098 No, after the second world war the company that was called Auto Union (which should also work in English), which consisted of Horch, DKW, Audi and Wanderer, renamed itself to Audi. They kept the four ring logo (each ring representing one of the four member companies). In the sixties they also acquired the manufacturer called NSU, but they decided not to extend the logo with a fifth ring, most likely because it would look too much like the symbol of the Olympics. BTW: Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen.

    • @roverwaters3875
      @roverwaters3875 Год назад +2

      here is the bombshell: Enzo Ferrari sold the car company completely in 1969 to FIAT. He had no executive control since then on the road cars built by Ferrari.

  • @dirreeN
    @dirreeN Год назад +140

    Fun fact, the 3 point seat belt was invented by Volvo in Sweden, but they decided to let everyone use it if they wanted to😄

    • @nicoladc89
      @nicoladc89 Год назад +7

      Fiat did almost the same with the Common Rail, they let everyone to use it except for Volkswagen.

    • @willemp6432
      @willemp6432 Год назад +4

      Without making money on it...

  • @Ennui.
    @Ennui. Год назад +35

    Alfa Romeo is pretty much the reason why Ferrari even exists.
    Scuderia Ferrari started out as a tuning house for Alfa Romeo racing cars (kinda like what AMG is to Mercedes).
    They bought and prepared Alfa Romeo racing cars for "gentlemen drivers", functioning as the racing division of Alfa Romeo.
    Alfa Romeo withdrew from racing in the 1930's, and that basically gave Enzo Ferrari the idea of making his own racing cars.

    •  5 месяцев назад +2

      Also Lamborghini didnt start with cars, they started with farming machines (Lamborghini Trattori) in 1948 and Ferrucio was unhappy with Ferrari's GT cars (always broken). So he want to cooperate, but Enzo Ferrari declined so Lamborghini started working on 350 GT - ultimate GT car....
      Later, in 80s, there was engineer in Lamborghini with idea of super light material for body work - carbon fiber. They didnt accept his idea of Countach made of Carbon fiber so he left and started his own company - his name was Horacio Pagani

  • @umbra811
    @umbra811 Год назад +97

    They show the really fancy models of each car brand in this video, but most of these brands create also small more everyday cars, that people can afford.
    Also, “working men” mostly use minivans, that don’t have any seats in the back and not a pick-up truck. ( At least in my country)
    Oh, and the Smart was actually developed in Switzerland but in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz, which is probably the reason why it’s listed as German.

    • @dirkspatz3692
      @dirkspatz3692 Год назад +8

      Depends on the "working" and how much space he need. But if they need not much space to transport the often use a station wagon (and no not the ugly american ones from the 1970s) or a transporter (something like regular cars with the size of a UPS-Delivery car), or a truck or Semi-truck

    • @umbra811
      @umbra811 Год назад +2

      Thanks for the clarification. I’m not much of a car person and lack the proper terminology.
      I looked it up and I did mean transporter when I wrote minivan :)

    • @vikinnorway6725
      @vikinnorway6725 Год назад +1

      Vw audi skoda is everywhere and probably one of the most sold cars

    • @alexwtf80
      @alexwtf80 Год назад

      except for fiat... the choose the crappiest one XD

  • @harrysoumen6122
    @harrysoumen6122 Год назад +28

    Škoda is quite popular in the Central Europe due to the great price-performance ratio. The company was established and is settled in the Czech Republic, but is owned by German Volkswagen. There is no significant import of utility cars from the USA in Europe, we use the European brands or Japanese/Korean ones.

  • @mimamo
    @mimamo Год назад +147

    Volkswagen is like the most German of German cars. Funny you would think it's from anywhere else. That's like wondering if the baguette is French or the Queen (RIP) is English, lol.

    • @userhessenone1469
      @userhessenone1469 Год назад +5

      VW owns Audi, Seat, Skoda, Porsche etc

    • @emes3211
      @emes3211 Год назад +6

      "Volkswagen is like the most German of German cars"
      Heil yes!
      true SS brand

    • @MaticTheProto
      @MaticTheProto Год назад +1

      Mercedes is the most German brand. And the most car brand brand

    • @At0ThEb
      @At0ThEb 10 месяцев назад +5

      It's funny cause Volkswagen literally translates from german as the people's car

    • @rtcturnemup7028
      @rtcturnemup7028 6 месяцев назад

      Idk I always thought it was bmw based on designs, cars. But now I think about it, it makes sense for it to be vw

  • @rainerfuchs2788
    @rainerfuchs2788 Год назад +109

    You know Skoda, Seat, Audi, Lamborgini, Bentley and Porsche are owend by Volkswagen?

    • @Kullioking
      @Kullioking Год назад +6

      wrong, they are owned by the Porsche Holding and are part of the Volkswagen group. BTW. Bugatti was also part of it.

    • @Kullioking
      @Kullioking Год назад +3

      @vkevv-Denmark is now owned by rimac.

    • @_Xorag
      @_Xorag Год назад +3

      Rimac is now owner of Bugatti, now it's Rimac-Bugatti automibili

    • @matekochkoch
      @matekochkoch Год назад

      + Bugatti at least until 2021

    • @bas1330
      @bas1330 Год назад +9

      VW brands are: Volkswagen (VW), Audi, SEAT, Cupra, SKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati (motorbikes), Scania, MAN (both trucks)...

  • @PeterBuwen
    @PeterBuwen Год назад +81

    Germany is 4th in GdP after USA, Japan and China. The EU comes straight after the US - even though it is only half the size. BTW: Smart is a Mercedes brand and Mercedes also builds trucks and pickups.

    • @dirkschmidt2276
      @dirkschmidt2276 Год назад +8

      And Busses and Coaches

    • @mortenrollsen271
      @mortenrollsen271 Год назад +3

      The idea of the Smart car actually originated in Switzerland.

    • @ericevans4040
      @ericevans4040 Год назад

      Smart, Some Mercedes Are Really Tiny

    • @marcdavey
      @marcdavey Год назад

      The Mercedes pick-up is pretty much a rebadged Nissan Navara

    • @MrPeetmura
      @MrPeetmura Год назад +2

      And Lamborghini make tractors, which has their main business from the start. Cars started as a side project of Mr. Lamborghini :)

  • @ExtremeTeddy
    @ExtremeTeddy Год назад +54

    You won't need a Pickup-Truck over in Europe, because either you just put a trailer behind your car or you have a big trunk. In perspective the U.S. limits the usage of trailers although most brands can easily pull small and medium sized trailers. And renting a trailer at the next hardware store or asking a friend/neighboor would also be an option. So no real need for a Pickup-Truck 😅 However you may see many Transporters here. I guess they are the most comparable option to your typical U.S. Pickup-Truck.

    • @Spido68_the_spectator
      @Spido68_the_spectator Год назад +2

      Also, pick ups available are different, with Ford Ranger, VW Amaraok, Mercedes X class...

    • @reinhard8053
      @reinhard8053 Год назад +4

      And with a F150 you would have much trouble finding a parking space. It's just too big for most of Europe. My last RV was shorter and about as wide as the F150. And it did only fit on my private parking space because I parked it literally into the hedge which still has a hole there.

    • @haberg1538
      @haberg1538 Год назад +5

      VW has Pickup Trucks and Mercedes top.
      But Most of Pickup Trucks are from Asia Like Toyota Mitsubishi our Nissan
      For Work Most people uses Vans Like a VW Transporter, Ford transit,..

  • @johnmcintosh5413
    @johnmcintosh5413 Год назад +44

    Germany has always been an economic powerhouse very clever people.

    • @sc4952
      @sc4952 Год назад

      Yeah💪😉

    • @germanCrowbar
      @germanCrowbar Год назад

      Since the USA and Norway blew up our Nordstream pipelines, the German economy has been in great danger.

    • @hazhoner5727
      @hazhoner5727 Год назад +1

      ALWAYS??? lol what?

    • @XanielzX
      @XanielzX Год назад

      @@germanCrowbargood

  • @winterlinde5395
    @winterlinde5395 Год назад +25

    Feli from Germany made a video about „German brands you pronounce wrong“
    There talks a little bit about the companies, too. Interesting!

  • @eggy_bread8579
    @eggy_bread8579 Год назад +36

    They missed out loads of British car brands. From Lotus, McLaren, Morgan, Ascari, Cateram, Ariel and more.

    • @FavourInternational
      @FavourInternational  Год назад +9

      Looks like we have to do a part two then! I've heard of lotus and McLaren but not the others

    • @liukin95
      @liukin95 Год назад +4

      Also TVR, Vauxhall, Lagonda, Noble, Arash and so much more!

    • @eggy_bread8579
      @eggy_bread8579 Год назад +3

      @@liukin95 I knew they were there I just couldn't remember them. They went under my "and more" category. 🤭

    • @dsludge8217
      @dsludge8217 Год назад +2

      And Alvis, and Bristol, and Triumph, and Standard...

    • @Capt.-Nemo
      @Capt.-Nemo Год назад +6

      @@liukin95 Vauxhall is Opel

  • @JoyNova
    @JoyNova Год назад +23

    @10:59 For The Netherlands, the people that work on like railroads or need a bigger car to hold all of their tools, maintenance etc. usually drive work vans, mostly Volkswagen type. Pickups are a bit clumsy for the roads here and we have strict laws about things sticking out of the back of the car. So a large van is a go-to.

  • @PedrocamaroSS
    @PedrocamaroSS Год назад +6

    Normally in europe the company you work for provides the vehicle for you to work, but it's normally vans, small trucks, you would be surpised that pretty much all those brands Renault, Peugeot, Mercedes, VW, Citroen, they all produce work vehicles

  • @dirkspatz3692
    @dirkspatz3692 Год назад +96

    There of one fault SEAT (pronounced "see at") is from spain. And Skoda is from Czech-Republic.
    Worser is when you know which brands are owned by the same company 🙂
    BMW owns Mini and Rolls-Royce
    Stellantis (Dutch Company) owns Peugeot, Citroen, DS (the Luxury brand of Citroen), Opel, Vauxhall, Fiat, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, RAM, Mopar, Alfa Romeo, Masserati, Lancia
    Volkswagen (VW) owns - Audi, Porsche, Skoda, SEAT, Cupra (sporty brand of SEAT), Lamburgini, Bentley, Bugatti and Ducati (the Motorcycle Company)
    The Problem with the the "German Luxurios Brands" is that US-Citizen only buy big cars and only the biggest, highest-end cars are exported to the US. So you only see the Mercedes S-Class AMG 8.3Liter V12 with 1000hp zero to 60 in 3.3seconds in the US while Europeans drive the B-Class Minivan, the"smaller than a Honda Civic" A-Class, the 110hp C-Class (VW Golf as Sedan) or the BMW 118 (A Prius is bigger), or thee Audi A2, A3, A5. VW MAybe some Golf GTI, but not the normal bread and butter 90hp entry level version or the VW Polo, UP, Lupo. SAme with the SUV Versions from the German brands. Only the biggest comes to america, the smaller Golf Size SUV) from BMW (X1, X3) or Audi (Q2?) never ever in US of America.

    • @arthur_p_dent
      @arthur_p_dent Год назад +5

      VW doesn't own Bugatti any more, the rest is correct.

    • @tobiasmuth2372
      @tobiasmuth2372 Год назад +4

      @@arthur_p_dent Bugatti Rimac is now a Croatian car manufacturer

    • @earendil266
      @earendil266 Год назад +4

      Bugatti Rimac is a joint venture of VW and Rimac. Rimac has 55% od the new company, while VW has 45% and full access to Rimac Technology (R&D of electric powertrains and bateries)

    • @dirkschmidt2276
      @dirkschmidt2276 Год назад +6

      @@earendil266 Porsche owns 45% of Bugatti and 24% of Rimac and yes i know VW ownes Porsche

    • @YouHaventSeenMeRight
      @YouHaventSeenMeRight Год назад +1

      I'm not sure that Stellantis is really a Dutch company, it seems to be more of a tax thing. Their corporate contact address looks like a mailbox company and their headquarter building looks like a car dealership.

  • @martinaklee-webster1276
    @martinaklee-webster1276 Год назад +24

    Each Carbrand has it's variations. You can find "Work Cars"of almost every Brand.( besides pure Sportscars). I used to have Opels for the Last 28Years, pulled Horses, transported youth soccer Teams,

  • @arthur_p_dent
    @arthur_p_dent Год назад +29

    11:18 how old is this video?? Saab hasn't produced cars since 2012 and the company has since been dissolved.
    Also, SEAT is Spanish, not Swedish.
    FWIW, Seat, Skoda and Audi all belong to the Volkswagen Company and most model have sister models in the different brands just with different badges, different engines, and different price tags. So I would say no, the Skoda doesn't look like BMW, it really literally looks like a Volkswagen.

    • @morbvsclz
      @morbvsclz Год назад +2

      So do Lamorghini (subsidiary of Audi), Bentley, Bugatti and Porsche. Also part Volkswagen Group. Along with Ducati Motorbikes, Scania Trucks and MAN Trucks. More recently also Cupra, which is kind of a sporty spin off from Seat.

    • @arthur_p_dent
      @arthur_p_dent Год назад +1

      @@morbvsclz true - except for Bugatti, where VW no longer holds a majorty.
      But these brands don't really have any "sister models" with other VW brands, which is why I didn't bother to mention them.

    • @cynic7049
      @cynic7049 Год назад

      Saab Automobile is defunct since 2016. Saab itself is still going strong producing airplanes as they done since 1937. The little attempt at cars they started 1947, was sold of to General Motors in 1990 since it wasn't going well, sadly enough GM didn't seem to be able to do much better and after they gave up on it in 2010 and after a few false tries with smaller companies with much less money and no more know how that experiment was finally laid to rest in 2016.

    • @TrashskillsRS
      @TrashskillsRS Год назад

      All hail the car cartel overlords

  • @jordan4748
    @jordan4748 Год назад +5

    We usually do not use Pick up trucks here in europe (Germany). You barely see them. We have big trucks, and sort of... buses without windows, just for transporting things. And of course smaller trucks

    • @justsam100
      @justsam100 7 месяцев назад

      those are called Vans and they have them in States too lol.
      What we have that they don't are the small flatbed trucks you see in contruction (a lot of them are japanese "kei trucks").

  • @mateusz111981
    @mateusz111981 Год назад +5

    Couple of mistakes in the source video: Seat is from Spain, not Sweden. Smart is from Switzerland, not Germany. They included Scania but forgot about trucks like MAN and DAF from Netherland and Iveco from Italy. We don't use pickups, we prefer vans like Mercedes Sprinter or Fiat Ducato (both sold in US but Fiat is sold as RAM ProMaster).

  • @KimForsberg
    @KimForsberg Год назад +11

    RIP SAAB motorcars.

  • @RexExLiberi
    @RexExLiberi Год назад +11

    The founder of Bugatti and his family were Italian and emigrated to France.. so yes, technically it's a French brand

    • @jasperbaba
      @jasperbaba Год назад

      Citroen was a dutchman, after he couldnt get funding to produce cars there he moved to france and got his funding there

    • @cedo19
      @cedo19 Год назад

      Its owned by VW so technically its a german brand

    • @elboughlezoreil
      @elboughlezoreil 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@cedo19 so are Seat and Skoda, yet they are still considered Spanish and Czech brands respectively.

    • @spaniardsrmoors6817
      @spaniardsrmoors6817 7 месяцев назад

      Napoleon is Italian only technically French.

  • @PillsxPotions
    @PillsxPotions Год назад +12

    Its Opel in Europe, in UK its called Vauxhall and in North America its Buick, Saturn and Cadillac. It has other names in USA

    • @dirkspatz3692
      @dirkspatz3692 Год назад +5

      Opel was owned by GM until some years ago and designed (with also GM owned Daewoo) the small hatchbacks and Sedans that then where sold as GM-Brand cars in the US.

    • @mdx7460
      @mdx7460 Год назад

      I honestly had no idea they are called Opel in Europe until I visited Poland in 2019. Kept seeing corsas everywhere with the Opel logo and was so confused 🤦🏼‍♀️

    • @honda900000
      @honda900000 Год назад

      @@mdx7460 They are not called Opel in Europe. These cars are Opel. Buick Verano, Cascada, Regal, Encore are rebagged Opel. Saturn Astra and Aura, too.

    • @rkolarsky
      @rkolarsky 4 месяца назад

      Opel was a GM subsidiary for many decades. A lot of their cars cross-pollinated between the US and European markets (Cadillac Catera for instance was an Opel Omega with a Saab engine). I believe GM sold Opel to Peugeot now.

  • @j4m1e38
    @j4m1e38 Год назад +29

    Great reaction! Here a few things: "Smart" is not only German, it has been created by a Swiss watch brand called Swatch & Mercedes-Benz helped them produce the car. "Seat" is from Spain not from Sweden. "Saab" don't get produced anymore. "Skoda" is from the Czech Republic & a little fun fact for "Fiat" in German we say
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    It means "mistakes in all parts"😁 In my opinion the best cars & quality are from Germany🚗🇩🇪

    • @jamesdaniels401
      @jamesdaniels401 Год назад +6

      In Britain:
      Fix
      It
      Again,
      Tony!

    • @ElectricEnfield
      @ElectricEnfield Год назад +1

      Für Italiener ausreichende Technik - sufficient technology for Italians

    • @UlliStein
      @UlliStein 9 месяцев назад

      Saab was ruined by GM. They started as a company building planes so the name Saab is the swedish abbreviation for "Swedish aeronautics company".
      Here in Munich there is an old Saab with a sticker on it: "Born by airplanes, killed by assholes". Nailed it!

    • @spaniardsrmoors6817
      @spaniardsrmoors6817 7 месяцев назад

      Britain lol...every brand of yours is at the bottom for dependability.@@jamesdaniels401

  • @MichaEl-rh1kv
    @MichaEl-rh1kv Год назад +7

    Skoda (Czechia) and Seat (Spain, not Sweden!) are both subsidiaries of VW. Seat is an acronym for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo; it was co-founded by the Spanish government, Spanish banks and Fiat in 1953. Since 1986 it is part of VW.
    Lada is Russian.
    Smart was cofounded by Mercedes-Benz and Nicolas Hayek (owner of Swatch group). It is now a joint venture of Daimler-Benz and the Chinese car producer Geely.

  • @johnmckekell5568
    @johnmckekell5568 Год назад +9

    That video about car companies has a few mistakes, for example SEAT is Spanish, not Swedish. Moreover, although Skoda Auto has had that name since 1925, it has been around since 1895 (as Laurin and Klement) and has been making vehicles since 1905. Moreover, Tatra Trucks and theoretically Praga are missing for the Czech Republic.

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 Год назад +9

    Porsche wanted to buy Volkswagen. Porsche had borrowed money for this. But when Porsche started buying shares from Volkswagen, the price of Volkswagen skyrocketed. This meant that Porsche could not buy VW. But the financiers put pressure on Porsche so that Volkswagen finally bought Porsche. Audi, Seat and Skoda are also trademarks of VW.

    • @TymonMasa
      @TymonMasa 6 месяцев назад

      Plus Scania MAN Lamborghini Bugatti

  • @PattyOFurniture1
    @PattyOFurniture1 Год назад +3

    The guy who started Bugatti (Ettore Bugatti) was Italian but his company was based in France. The location of the factory is such that it was briefly a Germany manufacturer due to the moving German-French border in the aftermath of World War 2.

  • @ashleyowen7664
    @ashleyowen7664 Год назад +5

    "vagina hole" 🤣😂🤣 love how freaky accurate that is
    i say Peugeot as "per" and "joe"

  • @emes3211
    @emes3211 Год назад +3

    11:00 - we have japanese pickups; Hilux, L200, Navara etc but mostly we use vans like Crafter, Sprinter, or smaller like Caddy
    n Unimogs for special use ;)

  • @DS-uy6jw
    @DS-uy6jw Год назад +8

    Rolls Royce makes most of its money making a huge number of aircraft engines. The cars are just a side hustle.

    • @Jacckac
      @Jacckac Год назад +6

      They’re actually two separate companies that have nothing to do with one another now

    • @johnhood2061
      @johnhood2061 Год назад +5

      There are two different unrelated companies.
      The car business was sold to BMW in 1998 and operates as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
      The aircraft engines are made by Rolls-Royce Plc which is a wholly British company and is the second largest aircraft engine manufacturer in the world.

    • @Crashmastaflash
      @Crashmastaflash Год назад +1

      Rolls Royce engines own the name and key rolls Royce cars use it on license - a bitter pill VW had to take when BMW swiped it from underneath them when they tried to buy Bentley & Rolls Royce cars at the same time

  • @ricardobento6474
    @ricardobento6474 Год назад +3

    7:50 This is cuore sportivo, the symbol of Alfa Romeo. All Alfas have cuore at the front.

  • @nobbynobbynoob
    @nobbynobbynoob Год назад +2

    Fuel in Europe is pretty similar to in the States, except:
    - It costs about twice as much;
    - It doesn't have as much ethanol in it;
    - The system used to measure octane is different, so the numbers on the pump are higher but the principle is the same;
    - Diesel is more popular here than in the US;
    - You can prepay at the pump but rarely actually HAVE to; everywhere that I am familiar with uses self service.

  • @ashleytrew9506
    @ashleytrew9506 Год назад +7

    I would argue that Ford is the most popular car brand in the UK, although it’s pretty much a completely different brand than the US branch. I didn’t see any Fiestas or Focuses last time I visited the US!

    • @andrewwaller5913
      @andrewwaller5913 Год назад

      You can get the Focus in the USA but its mostly Pick up trucks like F 150 and SUVs now.

    • @CordovanSplotchVT
      @CordovanSplotchVT 9 месяцев назад

      @@andrewwaller5913 And the Falcon was semi-popular in the states (though probably more popular in Australia) at one point, which was the US branch version of the European branch Mondeo.

    • @rkolarsky
      @rkolarsky 4 месяца назад

      True. European Fords are completely different.
      When we brought an F-150 pickup from the U.S. to the Czech Republic, none of the authorized Ford dealers in Prague could service it because they were not equipped to lift a vehicle weighing 2.2 tons :) In the end, our BMW mechanic is servicing it.

  • @almostyummymummy
    @almostyummymummy Год назад +4

    Our family have three. Our daughter (19) has my original car - a Saab 900.
    Wife and I have two Lancia's we share. Delta S4 and the Integrale.
    My first car was a Ford Cortina (Mark III).

    • @sugoruyo
      @sugoruyo Год назад

      Sharing Deltas... that's relationship goals right there.

  • @MMartec
    @MMartec Год назад +2

    SEAT is Spanish not Swedish :) And it's not Seat, but "SE -AT";
    Also Peugeot is Pronounced "PE. JO" lol....

  • @graadlon
    @graadlon Год назад +1

    From a french person. Peugeot is prononce puh_jo and Citroen is see_tro_hen. Renault is reh_no.

  • @hansweith4947
    @hansweith4947 Год назад +3

    Work-truck-brands in Europe are: Scania, MAN, Mercedes, Volvo, Fiat, Peugeot, Citroen, Volkswagen. Renault, etc. Beside the Semi-Trucks they have as well smaller size work-trucks. Ford is big in the Ranger, VW has the Amarok, Mercedes the Sprinter = Dodge Freightliner, MAN, VW-Crafter, Peugeot Partner, Fiat Ducato etc.... There is a wide offer for any kind of business. Ram and F150 are very rare in Germany, some you will find in other European Countries.

    • @cynic7049
      @cynic7049 Год назад

      Yes, not much of a market for pick-up trucks in Europe. If you need a truck you get a real truck, and if not you just get a car, doesn't leave much use for pickups.

  • @Favourreacts
    @Favourreacts Год назад +3

    Tbh, I almost got a Volvo xc40 BUT Lexus/ Toyota reliability & reputation got me 😁🚗

  • @LifelikeFiction
    @LifelikeFiction Год назад +2

    You should know that these brands are owned by just a few companies.
    VW Group incudes VW, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat (by the way Spanish), Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini …
    BMW Group includes Mini, Rolls Royce …
    Stellantis includes Peugeot, Citroën, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Opel …
    And so with most of the rest

  • @christopherrobertson8098
    @christopherrobertson8098 Год назад +2

    Favors. It may surprise you to know that the newly created automotive giant stellantis group own Chrysler. Stellantis group is the new holding company name for all the brands owned by the fiat empire in italy. They also own Ferrari, Maserati, alfa romeo, Lancia, peugeot, citroen and vauxhall in the UK as Peugeot citroen group (Psa) purchased vauxhall for a staggering 2.4billion pounds in 2016 and this was included in fiats majority ownership purchase of Psa group in 2020

  • @kristena9285
    @kristena9285 Год назад +5

    I thought "Seat" was Spanish..? (Now owned by VAG (Volksvagen group - Audi in this case)).

    • @g-atti
      @g-atti Год назад

      You are right. Seat is Spanish

  • @daviddempsey2546
    @daviddempsey2546 Год назад +3

    Alfa romeo are basically family cars with ferrari engine's in them

    • @MrPeetmura
      @MrPeetmura Год назад

      You don't know what you are talking about!

    • @daviddempsey2546
      @daviddempsey2546 Год назад

      @@MrPeetmura have a look at most of the 80s-2010s flagship alfas and you will see a lot of them have ferrari engines with alfa branding

  • @jonascinar6505
    @jonascinar6505 Год назад +2

    U have the know
    The owner of Rols Royce is BMW
    The owner of Bentley is Volkswagen
    The Owner of Lamborghini is Audi
    The Owner of Bugatti is Volkswagen

  • @florianblonske
    @florianblonske Год назад +2

    Opel and GM where partners from the early 1930‘s. Because of the names of the brands and the different languages the manufacturer sometimes play a little around. So you won’t find SEAT some English speaking countries but they sell there cars with another name. Same thing is Opel. I think in America you can buy Opel Models with the Saturn label. In UK they where selled as Vauxhall

  • @brinkmannmaik5584
    @brinkmannmaik5584 Год назад +3

    Pickup Truck Mercedes Sprinter most european car Brand have big van for Worker

  • @hansweith4947
    @hansweith4947 Год назад +3

    Skoda (Tschech Republik) and Seat (Spain) belong to Volkswagen as well

  • @protpirat7923
    @protpirat7923 Год назад +1

    You should check which automobile companies are owned by Volkswagen and Stellantis. Both corporations have their HQ in Europe. You will be shocked. 😂

  • @TheKerberos84
    @TheKerberos84 Год назад +2

    The Brand "SEAT" originates form Spain. Not from Sweden.
    What this Video doesn't shows, is who ones which brand now.
    For Example "Mini" belongs to BMW. or Seat belongs to VW.

  • @FavourInternational
    @FavourInternational  Год назад +5

    Should I film a car tour?? 🤔

  • @Luredreier
    @Luredreier Год назад +3

    10:31
    We import a *lot* of Asian cars.
    But yeah, the US has next to no market share here and a bad reputation for poor quality manufacturing.
    Japanese and Korean cars however easily can match our own, often duking it out even vs northern European brands in quality although we still have a better reputation when it comes to safety.

  • @nono-yn5uc
    @nono-yn5uc Год назад +2

    Hahaha... Don't forget about the Romanian Dacia -1968-present xD

  • @Kazuya720
    @Kazuya720 Год назад +2

    10:45 well in both cases I guess I would be employed by a bigger company who provides some lorrys, or transporter like the MB Sprinter, FIAT Ducato etc. but... almost nobody has in Europe the real need of a pickup truck. Some forest ranger or professional hunters.. but thats it.

    • @monchique8388
      @monchique8388 Год назад

      Yeah I was about to comment that thank you bro.

  • @haukegebhardt3378
    @haukegebhardt3378 Год назад +3

    rolls roce was baught by by BMW and is now german, bently was baught by VW in in now germany, ferrari, lamborghini, bugatti many other car manufaer were baught my germany companys... there german know.

    • @eggy_bread8579
      @eggy_bread8579 Год назад

      The video is when and who created them. Rolls Royce is a British creation and even though it is now owned by Germany the majority of the construction is done in the UK. Germany said it was very important to them to keep tradition of Rolls Royce British.

    • @haukegebhardt3378
      @haukegebhardt3378 Год назад

      @@eggy_bread8579 i think she sayed what europen car are like, but i would ask here wat she meant, who ownes the cars or who created the car a long time ago. ask here

    • @haukegebhardt3378
      @haukegebhardt3378 Год назад

      and look at wikipedia theres the answere

    • @eggy_bread8579
      @eggy_bread8579 Год назад

      @@haukegebhardt3378 This video is about the origins. The origins of Rolls Royce is British. Any idiot can edit Wikipedia.

  • @Elementalism.
    @Elementalism. Год назад +2

    They forgot the Dutch brands, like Spyker, Donkervoort and DAF.

  • @RobertoFadel
    @RobertoFadel Год назад +1

    The real inventors of the car are the italians Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci patented in England in 1854. In 1877 Felice Matteucci, faced with the attribution of the invention of the internal combustion engine to Nikolaus August Otto, claimed the invention to himself and to Barsanti, relying on the patent filed in England, France, Piedmont and at the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence . But he failed to get the invention recognized, even though Otto's drawing was clearly similar to theirs.

  • @stuborn-complaining-german
    @stuborn-complaining-german 7 месяцев назад +1

    Almost noone here uses pickup trucks, everyone uses vans. We have vans for everything, with the big + of having all your stuff covered and protected from weather and theft...
    some european brands also do make pickup trucks, but those are mainly for the posh urban warriors and more of a lifestyle product. If there is the need for a truck with a flat bed in the back, we have small trucks and vans in all sizes from a VW Bus style to a hardcore Unimog or a full sized MAN...

  • @italianduded1161
    @italianduded1161 Год назад +2

    Only for Italian cars ✌🏻
    If only our car brands/companies could still be ours

    • @CordovanSplotchVT
      @CordovanSplotchVT 9 месяцев назад

      You still have Fiat, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo, it's only Lamborghini that's owned by Volkswagen.
      At least it's not as bad as both Volvo and the sad remains of Saab being owned by the Chinese.

  • @adabadoskova2915
    @adabadoskova2915 Год назад +3

    Škoda is from the Czech Republic, and in Czehia we pronounce it like Shkoda (I guess, I forgot how to write fonetically in English 😂) And Škoda makes like everything here in Czechia, when you're in the city, the trams are probably made by Škoda, the metro, the trains are also sometimes made by Škoda...

    • @gregorygant4242
      @gregorygant4242 Год назад

      And also Czech women , Czech women are very hot !

    • @roverwaters3875
      @roverwaters3875 Год назад

      we don't care

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin Год назад +1

      most of metro trains are Siemens now, but Škoda is making a lot of metro trains for export, they use them for example in Warsaw

  • @christopherrobertson8098
    @christopherrobertson8098 Год назад

    The start dates for the companies are based on when they began car production except Mercedes who were already producing cars under the Mercedes name pre world war 1 but were originally started under the brand Daimler Benz.

    • @teslatrooper85
      @teslatrooper85 Год назад

      They started in the 1800. The oldest street legal car in germany is a Benz Victoria from 1894. And it still drives.

  • @captainbroadside8258
    @captainbroadside8258 Год назад +1

    Alfa has won serveral design awards, the Italian police drives Alfa, Alfa was big in racing events and skoda is a big thing in Europe. Especially the Octavia. You see it everywhere

    • @CordovanSplotchVT
      @CordovanSplotchVT 9 месяцев назад

      Skoda has become pretty popular in Europe ever since it was bought by VW and turned into the cheaper way to get a VW if you don't care about the brand markings.
      Pretty much everything is owned by VW these days.

  • @elmarwinkler6335
    @elmarwinkler6335 Год назад +3

    Dear Favour, congrats to you, that is a big step into your future. You even could move to Germany, where we NEED nurses and health personal.
    You be safe, healthy and happy. Elmar from Germany.

    • @MrGrucha
      @MrGrucha Год назад

      The problem is nurses in Europe earn significantly less then in US, in Germany it is on average half of what registered nurse earns in US in Spain it is 60% less. Not many european nurses would afford to by Lexus, especially such young nurses.

    • @elmarwinkler6335
      @elmarwinkler6335 Год назад

      @@MrGrucha What a shame for us.

  • @elmarwinkler6335
    @elmarwinkler6335 Год назад +9

    We Germans invented cars.😃Carl Benz and Mr. Diesel (that´s a real name) Greetings Elmar.

    • @arthur_p_dent
      @arthur_p_dent Год назад +2

      Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler that would be.
      Rudolf Diesel didn't really invent the car - he invented the DIesel engine, which, however, at first was much too big for a car; it could only be used for stationary purposes. It took until 1903 that it could be used on ships, and another 20 years before it was first put into a truck.
      FWIW, while diesel fuel totally is named after Rudolf Diesel, it is a myth that gasoline ("Benzin") is named after Carl Benz.

    • @RubraLIber
      @RubraLIber Год назад

      The merit of these two is more on the development of the fuels, the engine is an evolution of Otto's engine which was clearly copied from the patents of Barsanti and Matteucci of 1854 and 1861, but unfortunately Barsanti died prematurely when he was starting to market the patented his engines and could not defend the paternity of his invention

    • @elmarwinkler6335
      @elmarwinkler6335 Год назад

      @@RubraLIber Thank you for clearing this up.

    • @RubraLIber
      @RubraLIber Год назад

      @@elmarwinkler6335 When Daimler and Benz were putting precisely the new fuel best suited to the engine evolved from Otto's project, they worked day and night, arousing suspicions in the neighborhood, who expressed fears as they believed that magical rituals or something inappropriate were being performed.
      In any case, they achieved their goal and found the fuel with the right chemistry, which would be very similar to what we now use in gasoline-powered cars.
      In my country, Italy, gasoline for cars is in fact called "benzina" (Benz-ina) and not gasoline

  • @JacobBax
    @JacobBax Год назад +1

    When you come to the netherlands you can drive 185 days with your US drivers license, after that you have to take driving lessons for a dutch license, if you want to live here.
    As a tourist you maybe need an international license next to your US license.
    Renault was I think founded in 1909, not in 2009
    Most UK brands are German or France now.

  • @malsm8892
    @malsm8892 Год назад +2

    Skoda, Seat, Bentley are a few brands names that belong to Volks Wargon. Opal was part of General Motors

  • @s.p009
    @s.p009 Год назад +4

    Well done to becoming a nurse 👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽

  • @philip2680
    @philip2680 Год назад +1

    Regarding the pick up truck thing for workers: Pick-ups are very uncommon. Businesses like plumbers, electricians etc. use small transporters and busses like the mercedes sprinter or mercedes V-class.

  • @joeknight6151
    @joeknight6151 Год назад +2

    Peugeot is pronounced per-zhow. the zh part is sort of like making a shhh noise with a j behind it

  • @MrGrucha
    @MrGrucha Год назад +4

    Lexus in europe is considered a premium brand on par with Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, Volvos etc.

    • @pierrestaut2335
      @pierrestaut2335 Год назад

      not like Mercedes don't abuse

    • @MrGrucha
      @MrGrucha Год назад

      @@pierrestaut2335 Like Mercedes, lets be honest A/B/C classes are not the same old Mercedes when it comes to quality, E/S class are other thing

    • @karazor-el9596
      @karazor-el9596 Год назад

      no it really is'nt

    • @MrGrucha
      @MrGrucha Год назад

      @@karazor-el9596 The only people that thinks Lexus is below BMW/Audi/Mercedes are either really old boomers, Germans or young chavs driving 20 year old e46/A4

  • @MrCalland
    @MrCalland Год назад +2

    Don't do pickups much in Europe you'll find most workers use vans and for decades alot where ford transits but you can get vans from most car manufacturers now.

  • @DavidCrowley-vn8hs
    @DavidCrowley-vn8hs Год назад +1

    Peugeot and Citroen both make vans they are called the Citroen Berlingo and the Peugeot Partner most people in Ireland use them as a work or farm van but if you want something heavier than go for a Ford Transit or a Renault Trafic or a Volkswagen transporter or a Volkswagen Crafter.

  • @goodall1bay
    @goodall1bay Год назад +1

    There is so many cars here in UK you can buy used Mercedes, bmw jaguars for few thousand dollars under 8 years old . There is a glut of them

  • @akausserkontrolle7539
    @akausserkontrolle7539 Год назад +1

    Germany buyed Lamborghini, Bugatti, Rolls Royce, Bentley too they are all germans now.😂

  • @nickgrazier3373
    @nickgrazier3373 Год назад +1

    That Bugatti is called the “Veron” the most powerful production car on the road, with a power of over 1000BHP

  • @krasimirkostov155
    @krasimirkostov155 Год назад

    Много ограничени знания за света имате в САЩ !!! Невежеството ви е покъртително !!!

  • @britishbastard6561
    @britishbastard6561 Год назад +1

    “You aren’t a petrol head until you have owned an Alfa Romeo”
    -Clarkson

  • @ZhekUA
    @ZhekUA 8 месяцев назад

    Actually Renault, Peugeot, Citroën are producing utilitarian pickup trucks and vans of their own in France, as well FIAT (SEAT is an abbreviation as well) producing own pickups and vans, as well Opel, Volkswagen, Mercedes (Dodge Ram series vans actually are originaly Mercedes Sprinter, under the Dodge brand), and Ford (it produces in Germany and Turkey separate models lines of vans and pickups, some of them just entering US market, for example Ford 500/Fusion is a European Ford Mondeo). Actually Spanish SEAT and Czech Škoda have their pickups and vans too, US pickup trucks imports to Europe only for fans, for utility use only local or Japanese/Korean brands

  • @Dan.and.motors
    @Dan.and.motors 7 месяцев назад

    In Europe we have many pickup trucks from brands like Mercedes, Fiat, Vw. Also we have all the Japanese ones from Nissan, Mitsubishi, Isuzu.
    In this video was missing at least 4 brands that i can remember the British Vauxhall, Lotus and MG and the cheapest vehicle on sale Dacia from Romania

  • @matsudoambition2509
    @matsudoambition2509 Год назад +1

    Since Scania is in the Vid I am now wondering why "Man" was left out cause they are together with scania the icon transporters, trucks and public service vehicles over here in europe

    • @gregorygant4242
      @gregorygant4242 Год назад

      MAN is Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg , a German brand , headquarters in
      Munich , but now owned by the VW Group.
      Great trucks !

    • @matsudoambition2509
      @matsudoambition2509 Год назад

      @@gregorygant4242 yes

  • @philipocallaghan
    @philipocallaghan Год назад +1

    You can drive in 126 different counties with a US licence as part of a multinational agreement and we can drive in the US with ours.

  • @hansweith4947
    @hansweith4947 Год назад

    just to add: the pictures of the cars are only one model of representation. likewise peugeot makes small and medium size cars, similar as Opel. btw. Opel belongs to the PSA Group since 2017. Opel was founded August 1862 in Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany and used to implant General Motors engines in their top-models in the 1970th. The Groupe PSA (abriviation for Peugeot Société Anonyme) was a french Car Manufacturing Enterprise combining the brands of Citroën, DS, Opel/Vauxhall and Peugeot. They had/have a lot of cooperation agreements with other companies like Fiat, Chrysler, Toyota etc....

  • @MichaEl-rh1kv
    @MichaEl-rh1kv Год назад +1

    Audi belongs to VW. It was founded by August Horch, who had at first founded the car manufactury Horch & Cie in 1899 (in Cologne, moved in 1904 to Zwickau as Horchwerke). He was squeezed out in 1909 and founded the August Horch Automobilwerke also in Zwickau, but was forced by his former shareholders to change the name. Since "Horch!" means "Listen!" he choose "Audi", which is Latin für "Listen!" Audi became a stock corporation in 1915, and August Horch did again loose the control. During the Great Depression in 1928 Audi got in financial difficulties, and the Zschopauer Motorenwerke J. S. Rasmussen AG (owner of the car brand DKW) used a loan of the Saxon state bank to obtain a majority stake. In 1932 DKW, Horch (which was at the time the leading luxury car brand in Germany), Audi and the automobile branch of Wanderer-Werke AG were merged into the Auto Union; this merger was symbolized by the four rings. After WW 2 the Auto Union factories (except one in West-Berlin) were all situated in the Soviet zone and became expropriated. Those factories became then the VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerk Zwickau, which started to produce the Trabant (until 1991), the first compact car with a plastic car body. Meanwhile the sales branches in West Germany gathered all their spare parts in a central store in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, where they re-established the Auto Union AG in 1949. Auto Union had a competitive advantage over other German car manufacturers: The smaller DKW cars were built even before the war with weaker two-stroke engines and a wooden car body and were therefore only rarely commandeered by the army, so there were many cars left and a huge demand for the spare parts. In 1958 the Daimler-Benz AG obtained a 88% stake; in 1964/66 the VW AG bought that stake (only the factories in Düsseldorf and in Vitoria/Spain stayed with Daimler-Benz. VW then established the brand Audi as the new leading luxury brand of Auto Union.
    Porsche was founded by Ferdinand Porsche, the Jewish race driver Adolf Rosenberger and Porsche's son-in-law Anton Piëch. Rosenberger left the board in January 1933 and sold his shares in 1935 to Ferdinand Porsche's son Ferry Porsche. Ferdinand Porsche became one of Hitler's favorite constructeurs and was engaged to construct the VW Beetle; he became the first CEO of VW, but production of the Beetle started not before the end of WW II. (Instead VW built a military light vehicle called the "Kübelwagen" = bucket car, a predecessor to the Buggy.) During WW II Ferdinand Porsche constructed different heavy battle tanks. Ferdinand died in 1951; his son Ferry made the company the famous sports car manufacturer. Porsche became VW general importer for Austria, Anton Piëch's son Ferdinand made a career for himself at VW (CEO 1993-2002). In 2005 Porsche acquired at first a 20% stake of VW (allegedly to prevent a take-over by VW), which grew then to 30%, but failed at first to complete the take-over, announced however in Jan. 2009 to have acquired a majority 50.7%, financed by a debt of about 10 billion Euro, which got them in financial trouble; the CEO and his deputy were fired, and VW bought a majority of Porsche. Since then Porsche is a subsidiary of VW.
    3:20 If it was Swedish it would be spelled Folkswagon or similar. Volkswagen means "People's car".
    4:10 Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler (in company with Wilhelm Maybach) were in the 1870s and 1880s competitors in developing the first gasoline-driven cars. Carl Benz' wife Bertha took in 1888 his model No. 3 for the first long-range drive with an automobile from Mannheim to Pforzheim (104 km) with their sons Eugen and Richard.
    4:40 Opel was founded by Adam Opel in 1862 as a manufacturer for sewing machines. His sons persuaded him to start manufacturing bicycles in 1886; the five brothers became well known racing cyclist, and in 1920 Opel was the biggest bicycle manufacturer worldwide. Adam Opel died in 1895, and his widow Sophie started in 1898 the production of automobiles. In 1928 Opel was the biggest manufacturer of cars in Germany. In 1929 Wilhelm von Opel and his brother Friedrich Opel sold 80% of the shares to General Motors; in 1931 acquired GM also the other 20%, but the Opel brothers kept their seats at the board. In 2008 GM got in financial trouble; attempts of different groups to take over Opel failed however. In 2017 Opel was sold to the French PSA group (Peugeot Société Anonyme, brands Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Vauxhall), which merged in 2021 with Fiat Chrysler (now Stellantis).
    5:25 Rolls Royce Motor Cars was acquired by BMW in 2003, while Bentley was acquired by VW.
    6:35 Land Rover was sold to BMW in 1994. 2000-2008 it belonged together with Jaguar to the Premier Automotive Group of the Ford Motor Company; they sold it (and Jaguar) in 2008 to the Indian Tata Company.
    6:56 The Mini brand is since 1994 a subsidiary of BMW. The different models are produced in Oxford (UK), Graz (Austria) and Born (Netherlands); the production in UK is endangered by the consequences of Brexit.
    7:05 Ferrari and Lamborghini were both also manufacturers of tractors; the Lamborghini sports car branch is since 1998 a subsidiary of Audi.
    8:00 Maserati and Alfa Romeo are since 1993 resp. 1986 subsidiaries of Fiat-Chrysler (now Stellantis).
    8:45 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti left 1909 the Cologne based Deutz AG to start his own enterprise in Molsheim / Alsace (at that time part of the German Empire). Regular production came to an end in 1963. It merged then with Hispano-Suiza; 1998 VW bought the Bugatti brand and re-established Bugatti Automobiles SAS.
    8:50 Renault has merged in 1999 with Nissan; since 2016 Mitsubishi is also part of the conglomerate.

  • @leow_se
    @leow_se Год назад +1

    SEAT (See-Yat) is Spanish not Swedish btw. and they are owned by Volkswagen. So like Toyota/Lexus.

  • @mariopetrocelli1538
    @mariopetrocelli1538 Год назад +1

    Bugatti originalmente era de Italia, pero al cerrar operaciones la marca y pasar el tiempo la compraron en Francia.

  • @tomaszuzanik7486
    @tomaszuzanik7486 Год назад +2

    Skoda Is From czech republic I manufacture station wagons, sedans and hatchbacks

  • @RubraLIber
    @RubraLIber Год назад

    In 1854 in the UK, the Italian inventors Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci obtained the certification: "Obtaining Motive Power by the Explosion of Gases". In 1857 the Great Seal Patent Office conceded them patent No.1655 for the invention of an "Improved Apparatus for Obtaining Motive Power from Gases".[10][11][12][13] Barsanti and Matteucci obtained other patents for the same invention in France, Belgium and Piedmont between 1857 and 1859.
    In addition, new increasingly perfected and powerful engines were built, used in railway and maritime transport. In 1861, together with Matteucci and G.B. Babacci, Barsanti obtained a new patent, on the basis of which the Escher Wiss & C. company of Zurich built a 12 HP motor, which was also very successful commercially.
    After various searches, Barsanti and Matteucci decided to entrust the industrial production of a four horsepower engine to the John Cockeril company of Seraing in Belgium, starting from the prototype built in the Bauer e C. Precision Workshops in Milan. For its mass production, Barsanti decided to contact the John Cockeril factory in Seraing and therefore in 1864 he went to Belgium, where he contracted typhoid fever which led to his death on 18 April 1864.
    In 1877 Felice Matteucci, faced with the attribution of the invention of the internal combustion engine to Nikolaus August Otto, claimed the invention to himself and to Barsanti, relying on the patent filed in England, France, Piedmont and at the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence . But he failed to get the invention recognized, even though Otto's drawing was clearly similar to theirs.

  • @nicoladc89
    @nicoladc89 Год назад

    Fiat (the Agnelli Family who found it) is the majority shareholders of Stellantis group, born by the fusion of FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) and PSA (Peugeot). In few words Fiat is the owner of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, Vauxhall, Ram Trucks, Iveco, Abarth etc...
    Bugatti is a French company founded by the Italian Ettore Bugatti.
    SEAT is Spanish not Swedish. SEAT is the acronym of Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo.

  • @MarcHaunschild
    @MarcHaunschild Год назад

    Germans made the glass for apples hq, we do make special effects for Hollywood movies, Bayer, basf, Siemens, Adidas, Puma are German brands you might know…

  • @cbaurtx
    @cbaurtx Год назад +2

    The video you reacted to does not reflect reality. Some examples:
    - Volkswagen owns these Brands: Skoda, Seat, Scania, Porsche, MAN, Lamborghini, Ducati, Bugatti, Bentley, Audi
    - Mercedes is the largest truck manufacturer of the world
    - Only few trucks are exported to the US due to high tarrifs

  • @robsharman3713
    @robsharman3713 Год назад

    Until 2017, Opel and it's UK twin, Vauxhall, were the European arm of General Motors. They are now owned by PSA, the group which owns Peugeot and Citroen

  • @Luv_skelly
    @Luv_skelly Год назад

    As a German I feel honoured

  • @gretapapotti3194
    @gretapapotti3194 Год назад +1

    Bugatti was invented in France by an italian man called Ettore Bugatti thats why it sounds italian lol

  • @Mybrickbuildingadventure
    @Mybrickbuildingadventure Год назад

    Funny story about Lambourghini is that Ferruccio Lambourghini was a tractor builder. He had a ferrari and complained about the clutch and Enzo Ferrari joked about that Lambourghini could drive a tractor but not a sportscar. So Ferruccio started to make sportscars to compete against Ferrari.
    I drive an Opel Corsa, it is a small car and Opel is a workingsman car. Cheap in purchase and maintenance. But I would like to drive an Audi A3.

  • @willsam1808
    @willsam1808 Год назад

    In europe the construction workers dont use pickups, we Use Cars like the Mercedes Sprinter, or mercedes vito or cars like that from other Brands like VW, Fiat, ...

  • @SNLORlo
    @SNLORlo Год назад +1

    Pickup Trucks are not even in the industry a thing. They use VW Sprinters or something like it.

  • @jfrancobelge
    @jfrancobelge День назад

    Bugatti must be a real European brand. It was founded by an Italian, Ettore Bugatti, at the beginning of the twentieth centruy, who was established in the Alsace region which was German then , and has been French since 1918. Bugatti's are still manufactured in Molsheim, Alsace.

  • @nicolaspeigne1429
    @nicolaspeigne1429 10 дней назад

    2:00 glad to know drivers of german cars are the same in every country, must be someting in the car that makes you forget that it has turn signals