/o/ — ITT: Soviet Cars

>>28982392 (OP)
What's really interesting about their cars is how long model years lasted. That thing came out in 1958 and didn't get a replacement model until 1977, and even then only because other countries made fun of it for being such an old styling for the 70s kek.

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>>28982392 (OP)
LET'S GOO, KAMERADEN!

>>28982437
Well, if it ain't broke (the design), why fix it?

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>>28982518
I want one, the Universal station wagon specifically

>>28982561
laukkuryssä

>>28982541
It was more of a case of "if it ain't fixed, it can't be broken."

>>28982821
Nyon kyl niin vanhaa termiä etten ookkaa hetkehe kuullukkaan.

>>28982392 (OP)
You're meant to say "communism is beautiful"

Ah yes, the Temu Cadillac.

>>28983019
Their ugly buildings, ugly weapons, and ugly cars say otherwise.
>Nobody will remember the soviets cars past the Lada. They will forever be remembered as the people who made the Lada. Not this bootleg caddy

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>>28982392 (OP)
The Lada Niva Legend is cute, and a guy's importing them to bongland too.
On a similar topic, for some stupid reason I really like UAZ's stuff. Shame the build quality is dogshit, and it'll be devoured by rust in no time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ICNjprhlhY&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5tD

>>28983038
I'd like a Travel as my daily driver. I'd also love a Buhanka, new or old doesn't matter to me.

>>28983049
The build quality of it is embarrassing though.

>>28983057
I really don't mind. I can fix them.

>>28982518
I would really love to drive it one day. Although im on the wrong continent. I got a hungarian friend who's parents owned until the late 2000s. He described it as cramped and noisy and asked me why the hell I would ever want to be on one.

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>>28982437
>That thing came out in 1958 and didn't get a replacement model until 1977
commies can't even compete. 1959 to 1982 BITCH

ITT: Pieces of shit
FTFY.

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>>28982437
British stuff was like that, too. The Mini, Morris Minor, MG B, Morgan +4, Land Rover Defender, so on and so forth. Really interesting.

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>>28982437
They started getting into some real funky stuff in the '80s, of course none of the wild stuff ever got a chance to stick with all the "stagnation" going on during that decade.

>>28983153
They always did go for weird stuff, like fuel injection for 2 stroke motorcycles in the 50s, rotary engines in the 70s, 2 stroke boxers and so on.
The issue always was the government going "too expensive, forget it."

>>28982541
What makes it silly is this was meant to be one of the very high end Soviet government cars, the good stuff the public wouldn't ever have.

>>28983097
It kept being produced until 1982 as well actually, so it was still being built alongside its successor kek.

>>28983153
Were any of those 80s era cars like that beige thing ever released though? I thought they were only one-off concept cars.

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>>28983217
They weren't, hence that they "never got a chance to stick". A lot of the forward-looking, futuristic soviet stuff of the '80s does look neat since it's almost like an alt-history thing from the POV of a westerner, but alas, it seems most of the decade was spent facelifting '60s and '70s cars with the most futuristic new "production" soviet car of the '80s probably being the Lada Samara.

>>28983289
Sad. I dont get why they didn't just make them out of that weird material like the Ladas and just crap that drivetrain into it. Modern looking car to impress the West and a dirt cheap drivetrain.

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>>28983153
>>28983289
I am pretty sure those concepts went into development of the Lada 110. Imagine it with black headlights and you get really close.

>>28983623
The rattles and creaks are insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eJ5x5sYDmg

You don't need more than a Fiat 126p or Polonez, western capitalists keep wasting so much time and resources by making cars every year instead of having one machine last a lifetime.

>>28985780
This unironically.
The abundance of bullshit equipment in modern cars makes you think you NEED apple car play and onstar subscription heated seats and 360 cameras and autopilot and whatever bullshit.

>>28985780
Moskvich 2140 superiority gang

Fuck Zhiguli, all my homies hate that unergonomic shit with retarded ass engine

>>28983070

Are u one of those sadomasochist who enjoy suffering ?

>>28983097
nobody told checker to stop building it so they just kept going.

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>>28986464
Perhaps a bit, I really enjoy wrenching on these shitheaps, every mod or repair you do ends up being a massive improvement and gives you a huge sense of accomplishment.
I also enjoy driving and riding Soviet shit, they evoke a certain feeling of joy in me that no other does.

UAZed for it, you got it!