Eastern Bloc love!

ajgoodfellow · 30 Mar 2006 at 11:59

Lopéz said:
Although I like the battered ones, I'd also really like a clean black Volga:

http://www.autoreview.ru/new_site/year2001/n08/volga/volga.htm

I like it too!

5.5l BMW V12 - 0-62mph in 6.56sec. Compare that to the other car on the page that does 0-62 in 35.01sec!!

flat-6 · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:08

Tatra 603 is where its at:

Firestar_3x · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:10

For some strange reason that roof line reminds me of the DS.

ajgoodfellow · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:12

And to think all we got over here were Ladas!

They're definitely some cult classics there!

Zip · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:26

I want one

Kol · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:51

Lopéz said:
Although I like the battered ones, I'd also really like a clean black Volga:

http://www.autoreview.ru/new_site/year2001/n08/volga/volga.htm

That is surreal. I like it, but I'm confused everytime I look at the interior and compare it to it's exterior

Lopéz · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:55

Mikol said:
That is surreal. I like it, but I'm confused everytime I look at the interior and compare it to it's exterior

I ran a chunk of it through a translating tool.

Apparently it cost the equivalent of $400,000 (using Moscow hourly wage rates) and the owner has turned down $300,000. Excuse the ghetto translation.

"How many there is such compartment? Well, even approximately? Founders of the machine from the direct answer evade. Then we shall try to count up.
The brigade of high quality masters worked 17 months on 10—12 hours per day. If to increase quantity of the spent man-hours by average cost of нормо-hour across Moscow it will turn out, that one only work has managed approximately in $400000! Plus donor BMW 850 CSi and old Volga. On a circle leaves nearby полумиллиона dollars. But it is very rough calculation. And what actually?

We only know, that the machine already has an owner. And that when to it have suggested to sell it for three hundred thousand dollars, it has refused. By the way, the car is registered duly. And know, how it is designated in the log? As « BMW 850 with the modified body »."

Kol · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:15

Lopéz said:
I ran a chunk of it through a translating tool.

Apparently it cost the equivalent of $400,000 (using Moscow hourly wage rates) and the owner has turned down $300,000. Excuse the ghetto translation.

Interesting. BMW 850 donor car too? :O Yeah, I'd have that on my drive. Modern interior with such a quality classic exterior? Please.