USSR

When you think of Soviet vehicles, what word comes to mind? Probably “shoddy.” Or “terrible.” Or “unreliable.” Maybe…

What do you get when the Soviet Union wants a jet airplane purpose-built to service its massive farms and…

Meet Irina Olkhovskaya, one of Playboy's 55th anniversary cover models. But she isn't just some has-been bunny,…

The MiG-15 dominated the skies when made its debut in the Korean war. One of the USSR's first successful swept-wing…

Today is International Women's Day, and yesterday was the birthday of Valentina Tereshkova. It's ok to admit you…

We'd all love an obsessively detailed 1:18 scale Volvo 240 coupe on our desks, of course, but no collection of…

Saturday morning, the competitors of the Mutually Assured Destruction of Omaha 24 Hours of LeMons race had just…

Once again, English Russia comes through with a great car photo.

Alex Severinsky, a Soviet emigrant who began his career developing antitank-warfare instrumentation, patented a…

In the U.S.S.R. the winters are cold and the cars are strange. Here's your best choices for the ten most awesome and…

Let's say you could go back to the early 1950s and snag a super-futuristic prototype automobile as your 2009 daily…

All these Engine Of The Day honors, and no Russian iron? And yesterday was May Day, comrades? We're going to remedy…

57Sweptside loves junkyards, and not just the ones in his native Southwest. He's found for us this collection of…

The Space Hijackers shenanigans pulled at the G20 Summit piqued you're interested in a siege tank of your own? Guess…

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other…

Have we ever mentioned that we love English Russia? It's like they knew we were going to review Cars Of The Soviet…

Whether you're wrenching on a flying Spitfire or a leaking Spitfire, Haynes has a shop manual for you. Very useful,…

I'd planned to review this totally addictive book today, but I haven't yet got permission to use the photos. But,…

Are those louvers for a rear-engine setup in this Volga, perhaps some nightmarish GAZ-ZAZ hybrid?

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other…