$6,500 for a NEW Car?

[ethics]

Yup. But you won't be able to buy it in the U.S. The <a href="http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=101647">Logan Dacia</a> is being marketed in developing nations, such as Turkey.

And it's not a bad looking car, either, certainly beats Yugo or even the first Hyundais.

[Sierra Mike]

Yes, but even more entertaining is this pic I found via a link from your article page. Sorry, Nolan you said? What's that again? :P

http://www.autoweek.com/files/specials/galleries/nopi/honeys/images/1.jpg

SM

[RetFireCapt]

Wonder when those boffo Iranian autos that Cyrus was touting are going to start saturating the market?

[ethics]

Those were (are) built in FSU. Ever try to own a Russian made car?

There's no manual, no specific tools. You just have to go by with your brain and improvisation.

[RetFireCapt]

You mean those beautiful and sexy Lada, Moskvych and Volga autos? Balooody loovly.

[ethics]

You mean those beautiful and sexy Lada, Moskvych and Volga autos? Balooody loovly.


Good God, please tell me you are not serious. Don't forget the Zaporozhets ("humpbacked" one). ;)

[RetFireCapt]

Of course I'm not serious. Ugly, frumpy, 30 years behind the times autos. I knew I was missing one, but there's no way I'm remembering a word like that. Instead, I was thinking "Zil", like the trucks.

[ethics]

Zil and the Urals (the new oooooh ahhhhhhh trucks).

You forgot the Zhiguli (which is almost the same as the Ladas). There was also Chaika (Seagull) for the Commie leaders.

[RetFireCapt]

What was that huge black ugly limo the apparatchiki rode around in? I've got the name right on the tip o my tongue.

[ethics]

First the GORGEOUS and very spacey Zhiguli:

<img src="http://www.abc.se/~m9805/eastcars/vaz/vaz1a.jpg">

Lada is almost the same as the above. Here's a shot from a friggin ad (<a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1410000/images/_1410238_lada300.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1410000/1410238.stm&h=180&w=300&sz=14&tbnid=iXzuHTS1rv8J:&tbnh=66&tbnw=110&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLada%2BCar%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG">wow, what a rip off!)</a>

<img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1410000/images/_1410238_lada300.jpg">


THe ever so behind everyone else, Moskvitch:

<img src="http://www.abc.se/~m9805/eastcars/moskvitch/izh4.jpg">

The ever popular (and the cheapest one in SU times) Zaporozhets (this is the humpbacked version):

<img src="http://www.abc.se/~m9805/eastcars/zaporozhets/skum1.jpg">

And last but not least, the most popular car, the most sought after is the Volga:

<img src="http://akamai.tehnokratt.net/pictures/raggahead/GAAZ2001.jpg">

Chaika was never offered to the public so I won't bother with a pid. :)

[ethics]

What was that huge black ugly limo the apparatchiki rode around in? I've got the name right on the tip o my tongue.


That's the Chaika: http://www.abc.se/~m9805/eastcars/gaz/chaika1a.jpg

[RetFireCapt]

The Chaika looks from the 50's, but something tells me it isn't.

[ethics]

Here's some Soviet trucks. :)

Zil (this is the military shot here but they were used for other aspects of transport:
<img src="http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MONITOR/ISSUE2-5/EME/15.jpg">

Something like this: <img src="http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/max_chern/oct21/zil_157.jpg">


Here's the Ural, which was brand spanking new when I was a kid.

<img src="http://www.mosnews.com/files/3872/ural1.jpg">

Then the Maz, also two versions of this.

<img src="http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/m/57maz530.jpg">

THe KAmaz: <img src="http://www.tyres-parts.com/images/cars/kamaz/kamaz_44108.jpg">

[Steve]

Why would that Zil have "Tank Repair Shop" stenciled in English on its side?

[ethics]

Why would that Zil have "Tank Repair Shop" stenciled in English on its side?

Shot is from year 2000. Loads of US and English companies doing business over yonder.

[RetFireCapt]

LOoks like it's parked next to a BRDM.