We get emails all the time from people asking us to identify cars they encounter, and these are some of my favorite emails we get, after the ones scolding me for my toilet-mouth. We just got one today ...
Archival photo The Soviet auto industry really didn’t need advertising to sell a car in the USSR. Cars were in such demand that people would sign up for one regardless, then get in line… and wait ...
LITTLE ROCK — Lada, the car of the Soviet proletariat, survived the transition to capitalism and now is expanding to fend off General Motors Co. and Fiat SpA, two decades after the collapse of ...
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The Soviet Union would like to export cars to the United States, but a higher priority is to import to Russia the technology to improve the quality and productivity of its automotive factories. The ...
Russian auto maker AvtoVAZ’s sprawling plant in the city of Togliatti, which dates from 1966, is being modernized with cash from Renault and Nissan ...