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While we were at the Detroit Auto Show this week, the folks at EnglishRussia were focused on the 2008 Moscow Auto Show. Apparently, it's the booth professionals they were focusing on. Here's their 55-image gallery. More »
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We've showed you first shots of the Mazda Kazamai Concept, but here's more of the "Swirling Crosswinds" vehicle Mazda is showing off at this year's Moscow Auto Salon. Mazda revealed the concept crossover to give the Russian market — one of the few in which SUVs are rapidly growing in popularity — a look at where the company plans to take its next-generation crossovers. The Kazamai blends Mazda's Nagare design language in a small sport-ute just a tad bit larger than today's Mazda3, making it sort of the kissin' SUV cousin to the Furai concept we saw in Detroit. Judge for yourself, and check out the full design report from Mazda after the jump. More »
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In the spirit of "sustainable zoom-zoom" — their words, not ours — Mazda has finally revealed the Kazamai, the mystery compact crossover bowing at the Moscow International Auto Salon August 26. Kazamai means "swirling crosswinds," and if you think you're seeing a heaping helping of Nagare design language, you're spot-on. Of more interest, the release mentions a next-generation direct-injection engine and a "new transmission," though we'd imagine that those too are currently concepts that won't see the light of day for a while. Full release after the jump. More »
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With all the reveals going on for the Frankfurt Auto Show, we almost forgot there's a show in Moscow heating up the Russian capitol, and Russian automaker GAZ has just revealed their newest hot vehicle. And yet again, it's proof that in Russia, cars design you. Don't believe us? Quick, then — walk through the gallery below and spot and name which car(s) this particular Russian sedan's culling design cues from? We've already found four in just a few moments and we're fairly sure there's more fun to be found beneath the Moscow released folds of Russian automaker GAZ's newest intellectual property rip-off homage sedan, the Siber. [via Auto.lenta.ru] More »
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Yes, that's right, it would appear in addition to capitalism, the Chinese have also learned about the importance of selling metal with flesh. But unlike some of the other shows, the booth babes of Beijing's China Auto Show appear to be of a more classy variety than a couple of the other second-tier shows, like say...Moscow...or Paris. But we do hear there's different strokes for different folks. Why don't you take a look for yourself and help us pit the winner of our last booth babe bonanza, the lovely ladies of Moscow — against the winners we found in China. [Hat tip to Gridskipper!] – Ray Wert More »
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The Jalopnik team fortuitously met a reporter by the name of (Liza) while in Paris at last month's auto show. She works for an up-and-coming Russian auto site by the name of autonews.ru, and I've kept in touch with her since we came back a few weeks ago. While talking to young Liza this morning, she wanted to let me know that she was personally unimpressed with the caliber of "booth babes" strutting their stuff in Paris, and that she felt the women of Mother Russia, and specifically the ones showing their stuff at the Moscow Auto Show, were better equipped to show off and pull the various knobs and levers and whatsagadgets necessary to demonstrate today's car. Not having much of a dog in the hunt, yet immediately sensing an opportunity, I offered her the ability to show off said models, and let an impartial jury — say, the readers of Jalopnik — decide who's got the sterner stuff. She's obliged — and because we couldn't make it there, she's provided us with not only a small gallery of Moscow Auto Show "booth babes," but also a direct link to the full galleries they've got set up for the 2006 ? ? ? (Moscow Motor Show). So, after you've sampled both those galleries and our own Paris Booth Babe gallery, come back over here and pull a lever of your own below the jump. – Ray Wert More »
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