Ex-CCCP thread

sell it. Use the money to buy something you love.

Ukrainian living in Poland. Driving an NB Miata.
I really should pay more attention to it.

half moldovan but living in romania

like pic but lower trim

>romanians now can afford new-like vehicles
since fucking when

>tfw this will never be real

thats a wrangler with a body kit
why cant it be?

just find a decent machine shop and a beat-up Gaz-69

>new-like

it was brand new. and it's easier to here than in the west imho, just gonna b smart

Is it possible to buy/drive russian cars in the USA??? Not even a commieboo but I always found myself strangely tempted to drive the cars/ride a classic ural

Anything is possible if you have enough dedication to do it. I personally would love to have a UAZ-452 or GAZ-24. In no way is it suitable for a DD (UAZ-452 might do so because it's a work horse) but as a hobby. It will break down and you'll be required to repair it which is why you could think of it as a hobby.

>ex-CCCP thread

THIS TRASH BELONGS IN THE SHITCAR GENERAL

it's not about ex-cccp cars tho

I mean, of you want to seek out a Yugo you can...

Anyone alive during the glorious socialist days and had a car? My father (Polish) told me you had to save up about 10 years worth of wages and be put on a waiting list equally as long just to get some shitty Trablant. Any truth to this?

That thing must get atrocious mileage, can't say it turns very well either.

They're all rusting heaps of scrap by now

Well, if the average pay in USSR was 100 rubles per month and one vinyl cost 1 ruble and 25 kopes, you can only imagine the situation how expensive the cars were. Not sure of the actual prices, but just to give some perspective.

My grandfather told me he had to fly all the way to Tolyatti and drive his brand new Lada 1200 home to Bulgaria in 1972.

Yes, there was a permanent shortage of cars, not helped by up to 50% of production being exported to get those sweet sweet dollars.
During the 80s, cars in the USSR cost 6000-9000 roubles, and there was indeed a long waiting list. The average monthly wage was around 150, with much less variation than today (pretty much no one got more than 500). City planning assumed an average of 1 private car per 10 families, going up to 1 per 5 in the glorious future. The second-hand market was shady as fuck since the official way to buy/sell used cars was through a state-owned pawn shop with unrealistically low fixed prices, so people skirted that however they could; in general you needed *more* money to get a decent used car than to get a new one since this bypassed the waiting list.

Thanks for your insight anons. Were any of these cars any good? I'm convinced that the only good thing to come out of the USSR is Viktor Tsoi.

Tsoi wasn't even that good m8, just really in tune with the zeitgeist. Anyone trying the same style now would be ridiculed for being an edgy tryhard.

honestly they're all garbage.
Intersting and cheap garbage but still garbage

Not sure. But if you are keen to getting a eastern car, in the case of Russian cars, make sure it was made in USSR (or its date is before the year 1991). Or that is what I have understood and heard from other Lada fans and in a way, it makes sense. Rough times makes shitty products. It all comes down to the motive of the common worker, to do proper work as well having proper materials.

We all know how the USSR went. Post-Soviet during the 90s were rough on Russia, and this will show up on 90s made Ladas. They started to cut corners and then you end up on shitty rusting cars. USSR car did have their bad points (corruption inside USSR were a thing), but they were better build than in the 90s, especially when it comes to export variants. Gorbachev also had something to do with the quality of export stuff If I remember correctly, I don't exactly know the effects of glasnost and or perestroika. But I hope you get the point across.

>tfw Tsoi's place of death is 9 kilometers from my house
He died like a true Veeky Forumstist too.

The Lada 1200 body was scrapped in 2010, the engine was put in a Lada 1500.
That combination was retired in 2012.

>According to the official investigation, Tsoi fell asleep behind the wheel while driving at a speed of at least 130km/h, causing his dark blue Moskvitch-2141 to turn onto the oncoming lane and collide with an Ikarus 250 bus. Tsoi died almost instantly. His car was completely destroyed to the point that one of its tires was never found.
Truly the last her/o/.

locals including my parents are saying that he was drunk driving

>mrw All the cars in this thread are stolen.

Slavs can’t own car.

pretty sure baltics and poland is not slavic

he was killed by the government you retards

>Slavs are the largest ethno-linguistic group in Europe.[2][3] Present-day Slavic people are classified into West Slavs (chiefly Czechs, Poles and Slovaks), East Slavs (chiefly Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians), and South Slavs (chiefly Bosniaks, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs, Slovenes and Bulgarians).

...

How? By making cars in the state owned factories that are so boring to drive you doze off at high speeds?

Isn't the best thing to come of the Berlin Wall falling and the end of faggy communism that reckless slavs have now have access to German cars?

Slav recklessness + German cars + Bohemian mountain/forest roads = Sick touge videos

USA here, in Cuba last year, and experienced the old ladas. Not worth it. Go to Cuba yourself if you must drive one. But you will likely be disappointed if you have any car experience. The Cuban mechanics keeping all this old shit alive are my heroes.

the bread-loaves are allegedly unstoppable, as are the UAZ jeeps.

Fuck off amerimutt

agree but its not about the garbage 2 cars its about the people living in that area

you forgot
you needed permission to own a car.

I live in St. Petersburg and need to buy a SUV for the family. What is the best car to get here?

>sucks the UN wrote you a strong letter condemning your action in the middle east
>maybe tonight I can be your international sanctioning body
>the british and german ambassadors are gone, they'll never know

Lada Niva

Why do we have two threads dedicated to ex-USSR shit?

A cheap one?
unironically 2L Duster

How come the MR-S is so popular in former Soviet areas?

Most aftermarket parts for it seem to come from Russia, and there are a shit load of enthusiasts from ex-USSR areas.

>reckless slavs have now have access to German cars
but user, they always had access to German cars. They can only get the shitty ones now, unfortunately.

alphacars.com/

>they always had access to German cars

It was extremely hard to import a car from the DDR to USSR, and the few people who did preferred Wartburgs. I haven't ever seen a single Trabant anywhere in the ex-USSR.

bumping it up for tonight

>Car getting stolen because someone captured the wireless signal to unlock the car
>EU forces everyone to put computers on cars (ODB-2).
>tfw country next to me has infinite supply of old school cars

I don't hate technology, but I hate when people add computers to places where they can cause massive security breaches like these. Of course, old cars have shittier locks and can be started without a key by connecting a couple wires together, but these older cars are hard to drive. Heck, even having a manual will stop some muricans from stealing a car. Sometimes old fashioned is better. You don't meet wifu material on tinder, you meet wifes in real life.

Just had a great comfy drive in my 2106. I love that thing so much.