on our website, the www dot. com, and you can also follow us on our social media. cancer handle is dw news on pablo 40 s for me on the entire team here in berlin, watching take care. and i'll see you again at the top of the next step. the dream of revolution dictates estimate is the was closed. that changed my life. the people hoped for a sara society. i imagined we would change the world. tens of thousands of messages from all of the world wanted to help reconstruct the country. this mission became the dream. it was simply a spirit of optimism where we encouraged each other. so many things were suddenly

imaginable. there are the most efficient and make it a dream of revolution. thoughts july 20th dw. $434445.00 time is up. now is 103 minutes. it's just that this is a section here. i travel to l. baker and looked high and low for answers as to why it has more me see defense as per capita than anywhere else. the legend has it, that's on the whole being as proclivity for my seat as began in the ninety's after the communist blog crumbled. as i discovered that was only half the story, some secrets have just been very well. have

a rough hands for clues that might explain of vain. yours must see this obsession. the what's the place to start then to come to run it home to around $500000.00 people and boasting. and the story is mercy, those clubs, season, or dam medley enough with a w $124.00 produce between the mid eighties and the end of the ninety's and eventually marketed as the eclipse. the slick old machines that look brand new tricks out in every respect and with more than a few special features. the

how does it work if you, if you do the traffic move? no, no, no. and is it possible? i guess there are 3 such clubs and albania with well over a 100 members who travel to meets from all over the country the why this model because it looks cool with yeah, it looks cool and uh, its uh, more and usable here in the vein of that it's made just for for fun. elton tells me these carts are usually in garages but went off. they shined right. classical thing. i got these. yeah. so they're covered and vaseline to make sure the tires don't look. use almost the classic cars sort of thing. actually with the club members on the streets, it's really hard to guess how many beds to step on to run up. so i decided to check for myself. a file make of 10 minute street county at starting now. ok,

12345. there's funeral here, lasers driving parts one year. both orders and bible read 404142 guns. 43444546. that went from 48. the number of flights of time is up. now is 103 minutes. it's just that this instant section here . yeah, we're actually trying to figure out exactly how many must because cars really apply the streets of all day. so i visit the vehicle, we just ration department and to run up. they definitely know the numbers. i'm often they are approximately $740000.00 registered vehicles and albania, of which $212000.00 are bends is in terms of percentage that's approximately 29 to

30 percent, which is the share of that mercedes benz has in the albany and car market. the wrong every 3rd car on l. banyon streets is the most sweetest, most the 2nd pend, folded in 10 years. but our been says this large market share has been in part because to combat air pollution. albania has been the import of cars that are older than 10 years. and don't meet your report standards. but with so many mercy, this is daunting all banyan streets. i also myself with all the gap. let's deep dive into albanian history to a time when dictator and the whole general of the country and the best place to explore a communist history in toronto. is the central block for night. but it's not home to entertainment, tourism, of course night last was back then the premises of and the gang by with the only

very few people here is actually that his favorite goes to the car was the german class. the albanians were banned from using private cars. and the hubs of wanted to be seen as a man of the people, which we now know was an elaborate mess. great. is luxury german saloon, which no longer runs, is now parked in an old garage in toronto. i'm meeting with me about pony today, which is over one of the dictators best kept secrets. this is original flag. this must be the 600 or w 100 type. pullman was manufactured in 1966, then was custom made and personalized for hutcher. the price spec done is equivalent to around $200000.00. your us today museum.

it's important and it would be great if there was a museum for such vehicles. for vehicles that belong to the personalities of the past. it would also be beneficial in terms of maintaining the machines because without proper cars storage, the condition of such as cars simply deteriorates from the hotel. only covered about 7000 kilometers in the car in 17 years, mostly on trips out of town, until this occasion spots off to all this mercy. this was a state secret for doors. in fact, he didn't use the car very much because he was smart and knew that it was to start to contrast to the lives of the people who were at the time extremely poor. they would notice that's why he always walked from his villa to his office. and this car was hardly ever seen by the common people at the time. to not go to get it sold picture,

we need to look at the history of all dania. after world war 2 and the hotel ruled socialist albania, for 40 years, leading his people with an iron fist and isolating the country from his allies. he broke with his comrades and moscow and done with communist china after the death of chapman months. later, the increasing the paranoid dictator covered albania, with hundreds of thousands of bunkers. many people ended up in labour accounts, and albanians suffered extreme poverty and hunger under his leadership. the, there's a lot of history in the car to say the least. how is it for us as of being in fact, it's an unusual feeling as some indoors when you know that you're sitting exactly where a former head of state, a dictator sat. that's a bit strange. of course, it's will dismiss this luxury car was not the only ones used by whole just party

and albania. they bought 7 mosquitoes, dentist at the time, all 280 seals plots, hodges 600, sit down. i wonder if this car could be the very 1st proceed as an all day. now let me take you. i think this car is the 1st point of reference for albanians and the mercedes benz brand, from the looks to the idea that it was used by the farmers dictator and was considered the most important and safest and most valuable car if the time, of course that was an absolutely secret car until the ninety's. so if you look for the beginnings of mercedes and albania, and i think the origins are right here. now that i tracked down a small but important piece of the puzzle i carried on my quest to find out exactly what a treat pointed star rules albanian streets. and

in order to leave toronto, i need to get myself a car, which is how i came into contact with almost the mainly run. so it can be seen as cars and says the brunt is still popular here, because the roads where demanding and used to be particularly bad. mercedes fits perfectly with albanian roads, it's suitable for both off road and as fight. mercedes are suitable for all road surface sense and albania. we for him, german cars, a good business, the car, we run cost 80 years a day, but already has over 200000 kilometers on the clock. so it's long since paid for it . so no one to how much relies on receipt has. but where does it get them from? her from dish or s a cologne often is very good. i is

raisal and you drove yourself? yeah. well yeah. so 2200 kilometers, dusseldorf, albania, again, last year you know, the roads between germany and albania, better than here, between toronto and so rhonda. our next stop is near the seaside resort of doors with its picturesque beaches and albanians, the main port. i'm . i mean, i'm a 22 year old who loves vintage cars and is a mechanic and a place that some of damian's call them or see to city ship together, which is far the house on who runs of worship. only 4 cars with a start from what year is the car? 19. 87. well and 19. 87. with the motor looks good. there. 2.5. yeah. uh huh. and the spare

parts waiting to be put to use in the next classic car restoration. and right next door is the workshop where they run the family business business. the good place here. so all the tools assembly here you have all the, uh like this. that's like the treasure here for mercy. this hudson has almost 40 years of experience as a mechanic and he let his son following his footsteps and at an early age is convinced that it's the quality of german cars, which made the brand so popular in albania. if you look at that symbol, the messages i can drive around the world 3 times and i'm still a bins. otherwise there's no such thing as you drive around the world 3 times and everything is still there. and if the cars break down of them says it's always cheap to repair, to defend open. yeah,

we're cheaper than the other cars. yeah, no, that's plus, that's not easy to maintain and robust, especially on demanding roads. these were ones, the main arguments for buying mosquitoes in l pena. but that's also changing in the country. so we drive to lake, well, which one of your oldest and deepest lakes, and live with people survive on tourism and fishing. it's now almost a luxury to drive such big cars because they can't afford the less unless they tell them the, the progress cool. some of the goals where there was no money or close to what they were. thank you for watching the those that

you got bored is what who is moving to to do is discuss it. scores made is the most while they stay at home. if so let me uh, but as long as the wheels up there, ben. so still turn, they say they'll stick with them. the german brand still makes them proud and happy . in toronto for w 120 for offense. it's not so much about the money as it is about the details. dash, as he calls himself, listened to okay. but brings his car back to his native albania, to have it restored. because here they still take care of all costs like use they know the scores that they pay attention to detail when they deal with these cars every day in the u. k. they don't want to see this car's anymore. as an old codger scrubbing to find somebody that still good the enthusiasm, that's impossible over there. now, all you get these people that do the job for

a living and these just what and my impression of that this trip. suddenly there are still many and all that were crazy about the german cars, but more and more people are turning away from them and looking for alternatives and cheapest solutions. and so the image on albanian rhodes that has been shaped by mosquitoes until now is likely to change to the world. but we'll tell you we are happy that we are boxing the story. we have a getting a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to you and for the future in the stories and issues that are being discussed across the country. news africa next on d w simon.