We are going to heaven in a Trabant

Martin Vaculík: On cars and a little about myself. The author was born in Prague in 1981. When he was four, his family moved to Hořovice, a region Jan Neruda once described as a land of poverty. Although Martin has lived near Beroun since 2011, he still feels a strong connection to the area below the Brdy hills and considers it his home. Even as a young boy, he used to pester local car mechanics to find out what he couldn't read in motoring magazines. He wanted to know how to bleed brakes, align a clutch plate, or tell if a fuel mixture is lean or rich. He would like to thank Jan Marek, Eda Drda, and Marek Merhaut for their endless patience. Martin Vaculík is a Czechoslovak. This does not mean he dislikes the Czech Republic or its legal system, but rather that his father met his mother in southern Slovakia. For a long time, the young family planned to build a house and settle down right there, in the hills just outside Lučenec. He has worked as a motoring journalist since 2000, joining Svět motorů ten years later. Although he is particularly proud of his technical analyses, most people now know him from his videos on the Auto.cz YouTube channel.