/red/ Commie Car Periodically

>tfw no ZAZ

>tfw no SMZ S-3A

>tfw no based Zuk

>tfw no BelAZ-549 Tonka truck

>minimalist style
>dat color scheme
>chrome block lettering above grille
>W H I T E ~ W A L L ~ T I R E S
I don't think I've ever seen a dump truck that was this aesthetically pleasing

Just a friendly reminder to resident tankies that the soviet union didnt abolish the law of value

t. Anarchist with leftcom studies

Have a chaika

tfw no zil 130

Those white walls are flossy as fuck

Not a meme. It's the same as with commieblocks. The longer they went on building commieblocks, the more they had to cut corners. The longer they went on with Lada, they worse the tooling got.

They actually built a certain number of factory Wartburg pickups.

I would kill for one of these.
None in the UK anymore.

>tfw live in east europe
>tfw commie cars more expensive than bmw's or audis
>tfw drive j cars

What the fuck are you talking about? You can get a trabant for 100 Euros, or a lada for well under a grand

Emergency bump.

>tfw east germany
>tfw eastern europe has syphoned all the cheap eastern german cars from us
>tfw they're getting harder and harder to come by in their home fucking country
It's the same with old Mercedes in western Germany. They're all driving around in Morocco as taxicabs now with the odometer broken at 1.3 million kilometers ten years ago.

Alright folks, so with the summer closing in I am still wondering if I should try and go for a P50/P60 that I would need to import or just settle down for a 601 I can find around.

Thing is cheap P50s and P60s are usually in bad condition or miss papers and expensive ones cost a good buck just to bring here. That is in Germany. Now, my request is, since I pretty much limit myself to mobile.de and eBay-Kleinanzeigen, would any fellow from former estern-bloc countries that had a notable Trabant market post some car sites where I can search for offers? I know at least Hungary had one.

>tfw no Tatra 603

Yeah Hungary has használtauto.hu, there are a few others but that one has the best interface and selection of cars imo

>használtauto.hu
>50,000 hungarybucks for pic related
>converts to 170 US dollhairs
Have I got the conversion wrong or are they seriously that cheap?

According to my conversion it's about 160 euros. I've seen a few hilariously cheap cars here.

The crap part about forints is that the ciphers are bloody insane. We used to have a similar currency, 10,000 being the lowest value a banknote could have. We sliced some zeros back in 2005 and now the lowest value is 1.

Alright, does anyone know any good places to find GAZ-21's whether they're fixer-uppers or original condition?

wow, if I knew how to ship that fucker over here I'd get it in a second.

God those things are so sexy

Right? The most expensive ones are something like 4 grand and they're bretty nice. Meanwhile, I saw a trabant listed on chicago craigslist for $10,000. I suppose it is possible that all the shipping and transfer headache would make up that difference

Daily reminder that the commies made rotary engines. Lada only made 250 of them, mostly for police and KGB use, and I believe they even made a racecar that could do 0-60 in 6 seconds and had a top speed of 150MPH.

Surprised why rotaries weren't more common in the USSR. Aren't they much simpler than piston engines to both build and repair?

>Daily reminder that the commies made rotary engines.
IIRC the first-gen rotary Lada engines had an expected lifespan of about 10,000-12,000 miles or so, I'm not even meming. Neat concept but the execution was sorely lacking. They made a second generation of rotary Ladas but I dunno whether they improved engine durability.

>Surprised why rotaries weren't more common in the USSR.
the Soviets generally liked designs that were derivative of previous ones, with this in mind it's easy to see why the rotary never caught on, especially with such a rocky debut.

Nah they're just about the cheapest things on 4 wheels here. They're mostly owned by older people that grew up during communism so they aren't attatched to them like American boomers are (I know what I got, no tirekickers etc.) and there isnt much demand for them because for a little more you can get a mechanically much better car

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this is russia, every engine would have broken down in 10 miles

All the commie fags did was steal designs and try to do a cheap shit version. Everything they built was pure outdated crap.

when it comes to RWD you go through hundreds of 100-500 euro bmw's and mercs before you find a lada

not really, many stolen designs were liscenced fiats.
Other than that, you're right. Soviet cars offer nothing more than a simple RWD platform. Like nothing else other than simple and RWD. Absolutely nothing but rear wheels spinning and everything being simple.

Sexiest commie car ever made. Lightweight, rear engine, rwd. Basically a Czech Porsche

You gotta admire their dedication for air cooled rear engines though. The western world stopped bothering after the 60s apart from the Beetle which was already long in production.

>You gotta admire their dedication for air cooled rear engines though
I honestly don't understand the obsession with air-cooled, are they really that good compared to water ones?

Bumpy road ahead.

>he doesn't know about the breadloaf, the peak of utilitarian design
wow user, you're really dumb.

>steal designs and try to do a cheap shit version
Do elaborate here. A lot of manufacturers just buy a certain design and add particularities to it.

See: Opel Kadett