World Car Guide - A Cool Link Indeed
#1
World Car Guide - A Cool Link Indeed
Hey, folks -
For anyone who's ever wondered what a UAZ looks like, anyone who has ever wanted to drive a Geely, anyone who has ever lusted after a Tata.... there are support groups for people like you. Meantime, why not indulge in your automotive curiousity by visiting the following link?
http://www.autoindex.org
Meanwhile, here is something to wet your whistle. Yesir, this fine machine is a good example of why we won the cold war.
For anyone who's ever wondered what a UAZ looks like, anyone who has ever wanted to drive a Geely, anyone who has ever lusted after a Tata.... there are support groups for people like you. Meantime, why not indulge in your automotive curiousity by visiting the following link?
http://www.autoindex.org
Meanwhile, here is something to wet your whistle. Yesir, this fine machine is a good example of why we won the cold war.
#4
Originally Posted by Phantom Cruiser
I have a Geely scooter
I see Chinese motorscooters and minibikes everywhere these days. I mean, they are for sale everywhere. But I never see anyone actually riding one...
#5
Originally Posted by juddz
...Really? Two stroke?
I see Chinese motorscooters and minibikes everywhere these days. I mean, they are for sale everywhere. But I never see anyone actually riding one...
I see Chinese motorscooters and minibikes everywhere these days. I mean, they are for sale everywhere. But I never see anyone actually riding one...
#6
Originally Posted by Tranquilized
They sell those mini crotch-rockets around here, and everyone loves them! Everyday I See GROWN-*** MEN riding them all over the place. I went and looked at one when I was bored one day, and they have some with alarms and remote starters. How cool is that?
#7
Originally Posted by juddz
Hey, folks -
For anyone who's ever wondered what a UAZ looks like, anyone who has ever wanted to drive a Geely, anyone who has ever lusted after a Tata.... there are support groups for people like you. Meantime, why not indulge in your automotive curiousity by visiting the following link?
http://www.autoindex.org
Meanwhile, here is something to wet your whistle. Yesir, this fine machine is a good example of why we won the cold war.
For anyone who's ever wondered what a UAZ looks like, anyone who has ever wanted to drive a Geely, anyone who has ever lusted after a Tata.... there are support groups for people like you. Meantime, why not indulge in your automotive curiousity by visiting the following link?
http://www.autoindex.org
Meanwhile, here is something to wet your whistle. Yesir, this fine machine is a good example of why we won the cold war.
Last edited by turbonium959; December-11th-2004 at 07:17 PM.
#8
Originally Posted by turbonium959
Hey, what do you guys have against VAZ-2104? And by the way, this car has nothing to do with why Russia lost cold war.
#9
Originally Posted by turbonium959
Hey, what do you guys have against VAZ-2104? And by the way, this car has nothing to do with why Russia lost cold war.
#10
Originally Posted by juddz
Well, it ain't a pinnacle of automotive engineering. In fact, take the worst comparable car available in the USA today (or more than a decade ago, for that matter). Poorest refinement, least reliable, least safe, dirtiest emissions (in Ppm Co, HC, NOx) etc - whatever measure you would like to apply. Then, realize that this Vaz (as well as Ladas, Trabants, or Gaz, for that matter) are ALL much, much worse. And yet, this is the best that the old Soviet bloc could muster at the time. In a communist economy, there is no incentive to produce a quality product because there is no risk of going out of business, no reward for picking up market share, no way to complain that the car you drive is a piece of crap that ought to be recalled. Ok, it isn't a reason that the system failed. But, it certainly is indicative of the kinds of things going on behind the scenes that put the USSR far behind the developed world in nearly every meaningful way.
Last edited by turbonium959; December-12th-2004 at 02:59 PM.
#11
...but in the next century, things will be very different. With a huge percentage of the world's arable land and resources, Russia will some day be a very rich and prosperous country. If the Japanese and the Germans can come back from totalitarianism and the ashes of WWII in only half a century to their current greatness, the same can be expected of Russia probably as well.
Politics aside, and engineering proper cars aside, there are many interesting automotive oddities behind the old iron curtain. Such as the Lada Niva, a rugged little SUV/car crossover of sorts. Or, the stately Tatra sedans with their air cooled V8 engines hanging way out in the back end. Or any number of ZiL limosines, huge imposing formal black cars that served high ranking members of the communist party for many years. Or the notoriously unreliable Moskvitch, which was powered by a small gasoline engine that was originally designed to act as a starter motor to turn over giant tank diesel engines. Sure, it's all bad quality, but it sure is interesting to see this whole other world that has been off limits to us for so long.
Politics aside, and engineering proper cars aside, there are many interesting automotive oddities behind the old iron curtain. Such as the Lada Niva, a rugged little SUV/car crossover of sorts. Or, the stately Tatra sedans with their air cooled V8 engines hanging way out in the back end. Or any number of ZiL limosines, huge imposing formal black cars that served high ranking members of the communist party for many years. Or the notoriously unreliable Moskvitch, which was powered by a small gasoline engine that was originally designed to act as a starter motor to turn over giant tank diesel engines. Sure, it's all bad quality, but it sure is interesting to see this whole other world that has been off limits to us for so long.
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