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Governor Arnold was so excited. The cutest boy in the G8, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, was coming to pick him up for a date. He even borrowed his dad's Chaika! Schwarzenegger was the happiest girl in the Russian Federation. More »
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We'd all love an obsessively detailed 1:18 scale Volvo 240 coupe on our desks, of course, but no collection of automotive tchotchkes is complete without some Soviet iron! More »
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Sure, it looks like a Chevrolet Volt that wandered into a pizza oven, but when you're talking about a brand that once inspired a quasi-satanic kidnapping legend, you could do a heck of a lot worse. More »
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Black Lightning is a movie about a crime-fighting armed flying Volga sedan squaring off against a flying Mercedes in Moscow. If not the greatest, it's at least the most Jalopnik car movie ever. More »
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57Sweptside loves junkyards, and not just the ones in his native Southwest. He's found for us this collection of photos shot in a Russian yard packed full of Volgas, Moskviches, and even Tchaikas. More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Anything is possible, even a Volga in Southern California! More »
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Have we ever mentioned that we love English Russia? It's like they knew we were going to review Cars Of The Soviet Union and put up this collection of vintage Soviet racing photos for us! More »
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Whether you're wrenching on a flying Spitfire or a leaking Spitfire, Haynes has a shop manual for you. Very useful, but hardly the sort of thing you'd keep on your coffee table. More »
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Another photo from the happy past shows former Presidents Bush And Putin driving the Russian leader's awesome 1956 Volga around Moscow. Four years later and Russian-American relations have never been stronger! More »
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Are those louvers for a rear-engine setup in this Volga, perhaps some nightmarish GAZ-ZAZ hybrid? More »
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After nearly 53 years of production, Russian auto manufacturer GAZ has announced the end of production for the famed Volga saloon. The rolling symbol of the former Soviet Union will be put to rest in two months as a result of falling demand, high commodity prices, and cheap foreign cars flooding the market. GAZ plans to refocus their activities on their more profitable and competitive heavy truck product lines. Despite their declining quality and atrocious handling, we firmly believe that tattooed across every Russian gearhead's heart is the image of a Volga GAZ-23. We expect there will be many shots of vodka tossed back today in honor of the doomed brand. [The Guardian] More »
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Apparently this has been out there for a while, but before we discussed the news that Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, manufacturers of the Volga line of hulking vehicular tragicomic props, was looking for partners on the Indian subcontinent, we needed to find press releases with the right sort of Moose-Und-Sqvirrel feel. More »
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We posted on the Stalinmobile Volga last year, but we didn't have much in the way of details about the car. Now it turns out that the thing is based on a Porsche Cayenne chassis and appears to be an engineering masterpiece, in addition to being a stunningly campy homage to one of the most blood-soaked rulers in world history. The sites are in German and Russian, but we get the gist. Make the jump for an even larger gallery. Thanks to Franzouse for the tip! [CromJuwelen, Copypast.ru, RusAutoDesign.ru] More »
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There's apparently no end to the amazing car-related stuff the folks at English Russia provide for us; here's a vintage Russian driver's-ed handbook with scary illustrations and lines such as "Don't use vodka as a fuel/Or you'll crash your engine cruel." Best of all, the cars seem to be Zaporozhets! [English Russia] More »
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More hosannas and praise are to be heaped upon the glorious celebration of state and culture formally known as English Russia. Here they've wrassled up a plethora of Soviet-era vehicles from around the planet. We're still bitter about not being able to pick up a Lada Niva in California, but we're gonna yell over to Andrei to fire up the jukebox and rock out to some Stravinsky. That and the vodka gimlets should ease the pain. [English Russia] More »
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The GAZ-3102 was obviously a mighty special iteration of the Volga. Just eyeball that cheese-grater grille. Or better yet, bust out a brick of romano and top off your bowl of minestrone. Also not to be missed is what's apparently the heigh of proletariat fashion in the 1980s. Both the outfit and the Volga promise to offer comfort and convenience for many years. Thankfully, the swift comrades at the ad bureau were smart enough to avoid a false-advertising suit by touting style. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=277392&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's a Turk who just loves his '69 Volga! So much so, in fact, that he's put together possibly the most cheezy car-love video ever made. It's got endless photos and videos of his beloved white GAZ, every transition effect his $9.99 video-editing software had to offer, and all set to a tear-jerking weepo-pop soundtrack. We're just disappointed by the lack of Volga Drifting, but hey, can't have everything. – Murilee Martin More »
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Say what you will about the crude technology used by a lot of Soviet-era Russian machinery- and we're still not 100% convinced they used tiny vacuum tubes instead of transistors in their aircraft electronics purely as an anti-EMP measure, so don't get started on that- those Russian engineers knew how to get the damn job done. You say you got fascist invaders swarming across the border and you need, like, a gadzillion T34s yesterday? Hey, no sweat- just dig turret-shaped holes in the ground and add molten steel- who needs a goddamn factory building? The same resourcefulness was applied to their peacetime motor vehicles; you say the October Revolution Manufacturing Collective #5202A can't make effective grease seals for Volga suspension components? Well, just install a central oil tank, add handy foot-operated pump, and when the driver thinks the balljoints are getting a litty dry on a rough Siberian highway, why, he can just give 'em a few squirts of soothing lube. – Murilee Martin More »
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Since we love both station wagons and Warsaw Pact iron, it's only natural that we're pretty hepped on the GAZ Volga M22 station wagon. Built from 1962 through 1970, the M22 wagon seems to have some Rambler and maybe Volvo styling influence in its ancestry, though it's proudly Russian at heart. The really prized M22s are the rare V8-equipped models built for the KGB; imagine rolling in your KGB Double Agent Interceptor Volga Wagon. With spinners, of course. – Murilee Martin More »
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At first glance we were thinking "All right, Stalin murals on a Volga- that's mildly entertaining, in a sort of twisted let's-pretend-the-gulag-never-happened way." But then we spotted the red star wheels on the thing! Da! English Russia, you're the Czar in our book. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=255944&view=rss&microfeed=true Who says you need to drive cars made in the sweatshops of running-dog capitalist exploiters to have a good time? As we've already seen with the Lowrider FSO Warszawa, cars built in the gulag the glorious workers' factories of the Marxist-Leninist republics get the job done too! For example, these Russian hoons spinning some donuts in their Volgas. Sure, they're relatively lethargic donuts, but donuts nonetheless. – Murilee Martin More »
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In Russia, updating old Volgas with modern hardware has been a staple of the custom crowd. It's a natural, considering the original GAZ Volga is as much a beloved member of the USSR's vehicular past as the '57 Chevy is to Amerikaners. Carscoop, whose eye is always on the Volga pro-touring scene, came across a new addition. Or rather, an old edition that's worth eyeballing anew. This Volga was recast nearly ten years ago by El Motors, using the running gear from a 1994 E36 BMW M3. No word on the condition of the donor car. We're imagining it was lost to an incident involving the Russian mafia, a double-crossed deal to sell copper tubing stolen from a defunct state office building, and a rogue Soviet cop fighting to protect a fledgling democracy from devolving into lawlessness. But that's just us. – Mike Spinelli More »
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This sucker makes every jacked-up 70s Eldorado 4x4 conversion hang down its head in shame. Just... WOW! Words are failing us. Hurry up and make the jump for more amazing ridiculousness. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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Now that the people's tractors are made globally, Russia's Volga had to find something else to do with their hammers and, well you know. They've already morphed the iconic Communist-era GA3-21P (dig the so-sexy central-planning moniker) coupe into a reskinned BMW 850Csi as the Volga V12. Now they're continuing with the coachworks, creating the Volga V8 Roadster on the bones of a 650i cabrio. It uses the same chassis, powertrain, cloth top and mechanism, only with new sheetmetal. Da. More »
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Russia's GAZ, former builder of The People's Tractors and current capitalist exploiter and purveyor of post-Communist Volgas, has obtained a license to produce Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Stratus models in an effort to "improve the technical level" of the company's cars (oh dear), according to an official. As part of the deal, the venerable industrial firm acquired all tooling used to build the current generation of those cars — currently the product of DaimlerChrysler's Sterling Heights plant — as well as a license to sell new models based on those Chrysler platforms. The company will also buy supplies of Chrysler's old workhorse 2.4-liter four-bangers that power those cars (as well as the PT Cruiser) from the DCX plant in Santillo, Mexico. [Thanks to Matt for the tip.] More »
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Russian auto plant GAZ has reversed its decision to take the Volga out back and pop a cap in it Ol' Yeller style. According to RusPromAvto bigwig Maxim Avdeyev, GAZ new strategy is client oriented. If the client needs the Volga, we will make it, and the client will get it. We need a Volga, Maxim. It's just the thing for profiling in Echo Park wearing an ironic tracksuit and aviator sunglasses from the Lucky 98 Store down the block. Where we paid a buck thirty-five for a lemonade. More »
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