A good exam­ple of how the ideas to make a new car were born is the story of the fac­tory “Com­mu­nar”. The Min­is­ter of Car Man­u­fac­tur­ing made a call to the fac­tory where design­ers thought over the scheme of a new Ukrain­ian car and lit­er­ally said: “I heard you were going to make a spring […]

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In early 1930s with­out any licens­ing arrange­ments the Soviet engi­neers copied the first lim­ou­sine car  for the Com­mu­nist party exec­u­tives. In 1932 six lim­ou­sines were copied off the Amer­i­can Buick 90L. How­ever,  later the fac­tory pro­duc­tion line was switched to pro­duc­ing cater­pil­lar tractors,so the lim­ou­sine busi­ness was shifted to Moscow Stalin Fac­tory.
The car, based on […]

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Once some music com­poser said  that “There are only seven notes which com­pose all the music in the world.  No wod­ner some songs sound alike”.  Undoubt­edly,  all cars  have got four wheels, so pla­gia­rism in the auto­mo­bile indus­try is hard to pinch.  In this arti­cle we delib­er­ately ignore a pop­u­lar Soviet point of view […]

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In 1960 the con­struc­tion of a huge car plant in Ukraine was fin­ished and the new car “Zaporozhec” ZAZ-965 (later nick­named “Hump­backed”) was offered for sale. In terms of design, it was a unique car despite the numer­ous talks that it was just a replica of Volk­swa­gen “Bee­tle” and Fiat “Topolino”. This car had a […]

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Let us start with some sad news. Objec­tively, the auto­mo­bile indus­try in mod­ern Rus­sia is way behind the rest of the world, with a 10 to 15 year progress gap.  Lag­ging behind in tech­nol­ogy, low and incon­sis­tent qual­ity of parts and assem­bling are the actual prob­lems of all car plants in Rus­sia. But was it all […]

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