This might interest a few owners of older Škodas, a stunning looking 1990 Favorit 136 LS from a 2024 video.

 

1990 Škoda Favorit 136LS Review - The Czechoslovakian Car That Made It Out Of Communism! - Enjoy.

 

 

''Sch-koda Fav-ou-rite". 😃

47 minutes ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

''Sch-koda Fav-ou-rite". 😃

sch-koda is actually correct pronunciation, thought he sounds more like sch-koouda, it's pretty close.

Favourite is not entirely wrong, since Favorit is Czech variation of that word.

@Papez Many years back two CZ guys visited us in work, i said to them about Ceska Zbrojovka pistols and when i said that i have a Skoda they pronounce it as ''Sko-die".

Same happens here in GR with the ''th'' (as Tha-lassa=sea) with Bulgarians, Americans, they pronounce it as ''Talassa", also the δ and the ντ here from them is always a ''d''.

On the contrary here we don't pronounce it as ''Ghi-cago'' as they do but as ''Sicago'', we say about ''Bo-dy" but the Americans pronounce it as ''Ba-de".

In the video he said he had spent a lot of time in Slovakia and that region and given he's American or North America, sounding at least he is quite unusual in his travels and efforts of pronunciation, and being able to drive a car with a manual gearbox.  His enthusiasm and knowledge seem genuine (and not just getting incorrect facts from the internet and copying what other YouTubes get wrong).

 

I was disappointed the removable rechargeable torch boot light wasn't mentioned, and there's usually mention of the toolkit which some seem to find extensive (and well made) usually from those with no experience of older cars.  

 

In America they not only call things different to the UK their English spellings are also different, such as the UK word colour is spelt without the letter u included.  In the UK, around my local area at least, Favorit would be "Fav-rit" rather than "Favourite" because of the lack of the letter e on the end.

 

It was mainly the condition of the car, and the fact that, unless I'm mistaken, that it was in America, that got me.  The video was also well presented, a couple of minor editing glitches could easily be forgiven with the overall quality and genuine enthusiasm for the subject.

     

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As much as I really wanted to watch the video his voice and presentation style made that impossible despite giving him the benefit of the doubt and not stopping the video after the "Whatsup Guys!" in the first 2 seconds

2 hours ago, J.R. said:

 his voice and presentation style made that impossible

 

Things sometimes are worst here, young people often are using foreign language (although it's absolutely unnecessary) mixed with slang words or "englishnika" (spool-arei, promot-arei, spam-aro, facebook-izo, Instagram-aro etc) and abbreviations (Imo, Imho, btw, wtf, afaic, omg etc) with often adding multiple times the "bro" word.

The whole situation is ridiculous, they are not in a ghetto but what to expect from people which consider the trap as "music" and the trappers as "artists" ?

Just love the video thanks for uploading it, I have a 1998 Fleicia 1.3 MPI and would spend any amount of money to restore it like the one in the video so as I not have a lot of money I will just enjoy my Felly

 

She just had a MOT and it failed on the rear brake first fail in 26 years so off to the garage for her Friday (at 80 I find it a little bit to much to do some jobs now)

 

Here's a pic from 2017 she looks much well  this today will try and take a newer pic and post.

 

Nonsense you car look fabulous in that photo, even more so considering it's a car used for 29 years (and red).

 

Lovely colour!