Some More Russian Cars
Another series of cars could be met on the streets of Russian Federation.
These are masterpieces of what can be done having a small budget, or total lack of budget.
This is Zaporozhets, the cheapest Soviet car. There are thousands jokes about Zaporozhets in Russia. This one could be another joke if it was not real and cruising across this village.
Probably it is the only way to move through those roads.
Want to get a ride?
That looks solid.
And this is Lada and Mercedes E-Klasse in one.
This is Lada Niva in the form of Settlers Waggon. At least its wheels are from the Waggon for sure.
These Daewoo cars are being produced in Uzbekistan, the ex-Soviet country, it costs cheap and here we can see how it has been painted according to the Russian tradition.
One can see here Russian girls and Russian beers. What more can be added? Don’t mention vodka please it would spoil the fairy tale.
Here comes again a Zaporozhets car, now painted as a racing car. There is a big doubt that it can race. You want to know why? It has an air-cooling instead of usual cooling system, so a little more speed than necessary and you get overheating for sure. But where from can be taken and extra speed if it has only 30 hps?
This is another piece of Russian art. This is Mr. Putin , Russian president depicted with some bats, yellow Moon and national symbolics of Russian federation.
Is it a gentle hint to his black nature? Or is a way to express the car owner’s great love for his president? Who knows.
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Dear west friends.
You’ll never understand russian life and russian culture.
There’s in soul in every russian people and in every act that seemed funny for you. You just live according your stupid western lifestyle and try to thrust it on the rest of the world. You think it’s only right way to life. If you could look on yourself from the outside you would laugh at yourself like we laugh at your.
Bye-bye my west friends.
I nearly forgot. Kiss my russian ass.
Dear west friends.
You’ll never understand russian life and russian culture.
There’s in soul in every russian people and in every act that seemed funny for you. You just live according your stupid western lifestyle and try to thrust it on the rest of the world. You think it’s only right way to life. If you could look on yourself from the outside you would laugh at yourself like we laugh at your.
Bye-bye my west friends.
I nearly forgot. Kiss my russian ass. ~!
Dear west friends.
You’ll never understand russian life and russian culture.
There’s in soul in every russian people and in every act that seemed funny for you. You just live according your stupid western lifestyle and try to thrust it on the rest of the world. You think it’s only right way to life. If you could look on yourself from the outside you would laugh at yourself like we laugh at your.
Bye-bye my west friends.
I nearly forgot. Kiss my russian ass.
Russia USA
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First picture: Ivan The Bastard from Carmageddon!!!
Hey D3hon (”john”?)
relax. Russia is not the center of the universe, and neither is America. Every culture has a certain amount of “soul”, not just Russian culture. Americans poke fun at themselves every day, it’s a sign of maturity to not take yourself so seriously (and besides that, if Americans were to “look at themsleves from outside” they would cry, not laugh.)
You just told us about “Russian soul”, how about you tell us about “Russian humor”?
(kiss my Russian-American zhopa)
Dear Russian,
All over the world people laugh with people from other nations or race, religion, one village with another. The swedisch with the norwegian, Dutch with Belgians and vice versa. Don’t take it hard. Me, myself and a lot of other people don’t see my western European culture as superior. We also laugh with the kind of cars some people drive with,in my own country. I ‘ve seen documenturies on live in Russia. They made contact with lot’s of russians and visited them in their homes. They showed how real people were.Mostly poor but they were the nicest people you could meet. A lot of people saw that documentery,i ‘m sure they think the same way as i do. And have lot’s of respect for russian people. More than they have for most americans,believe me.
I don’t like cynical tone of the authors. It is testifies to their bias. It is not the sign of the culture, I think.
You need to take a difference between the joke-cars and serious tuning.
And I don’t like theme of the bad roads. Russian roads are really not so good as in Europe or America, but not such bad as site authors are want everybody to think. And it is caused of Russian climate.
when i was in High School (1986) there was a guy in my school who made one of these (here in USA)– used a Ford Pinto (?!)– same thing: tiny car on HUGE truck wheels. He actually drove it around too! back then i thought it was stupid, but now i think it’s very, very funny. maybe the Zaporozhet will actually get on the road (I hope so!)
and as for “cynical tone of authors”– well, i understand your criticism, but as the author of this site is Russian, I think he has the right to be cynical about his own country (we here in the US are cynical about the US all the time). maybe you are still in the “cold war” mindset– fear being critical of the motherland.
The Russian “soul” is the myth of Slavophilism, the philosophical movement of the 19th century, created as an answer or response to “western” (ie modern) culture.
As an explanation and thought experiment, it would be as if I decided to create a new philosophy, and call it “Americanism”. Americanism will explain why Americans are misunderstood by Russians, Asians, and Muslims. Actually, these people can not ever understand us because we Americans have this indeterminable quality that those people do not have. I will call this new, indeterminable quality “balls”. These Russians, and Asians and Muslims will never understand Americans, because they don’t have this mysterious new quality, which my new philosophy calls “balls”. Big, round, American balls, my friend … it is something you will never have. I laugh at you from the depths of my big American balls.
And this is what Slavophiles sound like, when they talk from this supposed superior position about their invented Russian “souls”. It is silly to presume that your culture contains some deep and meaningful human quality that other cultures do not.
I am really very sure that owner of the powder blue, jacked-up Zaporozhets with the furry bunny rabbit in the grill - takes his ride oh-so-seriously. From deep within his Russian soul. And we westerners will never understand. Blah blah blah.
ilyich, no. I don’t think so. I’m not Russian and I don’t like to live in Russia, but I have no choice. I just want to restore validity and tell the truth.
So, why I don’t like being in Russia:
1. I don’t like Russian climate. Especially Siberian, I live in Siberia.
2. Level of ecology. It is no clear water, air, healthy food.
3. The idiotic legislation. Criminal law - especially.
4. I’m 21 years old, I want to throw study at University, because I don’t like it, but I’m scared of the army. I don’t want to throw out 2 years of my life with a big probability of becoming an idiot or cripple.
5. It is too many inadequate persons everywhere.
6. Corruption. It has the horrifying scale.
7. You may be killed in the middle of day at any place for the cigarette.
^^ This is true. Lol, maybe I have to open my own website about Russian lifestyle? :))
the zaporozecs is wery good car, well acording its cost and the time ir was made.
The author probably never have seen zaporozecs racing, because they are wery good racing cars, you only have to put another engine in it, from lada 6 for excample, it will give about 80-90 Hp for that small, lightweight car, and then you got perfect car for mud races.
Hey, Marius! In what century you are been to Russia? All you described is lie!
To W. Shedd and others:
If you think Russians don’t have sense of humour, then you should visit some of the Russian sites which post exactly the same kind of stuff as here - eg. http://www.fishki.net (great site by the way!).
The only difference is that this site posts only negative things about Russia (which is why it’s part of your media’s propaganda), whereas Russian sites show both positive and negative sides to Russian life.
But you don’t really want to see the good sides and nor do you want other westerners to see it. That’s why ALL I see and hear on the internet and on western TV about Russia - is negative! It’s just propaganda. But to you it’s freedom of speech and media of course. Sure, but for that you need BOTH sides of the story - you should know that, since you’re “supposed to be democratic”.
To people who actually KNOW Russia:
The only way to fight this is with your own propaganda - of the good side of Russia. Build websites and blogs, tell people about the positive nature of Russian life, people, culture, traditions, etc. and spread the word across the internet.
“The only difference is that this site posts only negative things about Russia (which is why it’s part of your media’s propaganda), whereas Russian sites show both positive and negative sides to Russian life.”
This site posts funny, interesting, and quirky things about Russia. And it’s obviously written BY A RUSSIAN.
“And it’s obviously written BY A RUSSIAN.”
Really? I’m pretty sure he is. But no normal person (even if he really dislikes his country) is gonna post things like that day after day! It’s clear propaganda.
By the way, all these photos are collected from various other websites (without mentioning copyrights of course) and they’re not “submitted by the readers” as stated below. Too bad you all fail for that.
zaporozhets is shit of course, but you know, Porsche 911 models were air cooled too until 996 model..
For most photos like this, posted on the internet, there are no “copyrights” - they would likely fall into the realm of fair use. There is no commercial use or profit for the original photos or for their posting here. Informal internet rules of politeness would suggest that English-Russia’s authors give credit for images and where they are obtained, however.
I don’t see where everything on this website is negative, most of it is just amusing. Something like fighting oil fires in Russia is not negative, for example - just visually interesting. Articles such as the miner’s village photos are simply interesting and show what some real Russian people do for a living and what they must endure. In the past, such things would be considered a testament to the strength of the Russian people - but these days polished New Russians see such things as embarassing and making Russia look bad. But it is real, the only people who can change that are Russians themselves.
For the record, what I have seen about this blog would indicate it is someone in Finland, not necessarily a Russian author.
Administrative Contact:
Oran, Anri domains@templeof.com
Lientie 22
Helsinki, NA 90210
FI
+358.02999929 Fax: +358.02999929
Technical Contact:
Oran, Anri domains@templeof.com
Lientie 22
Helsinki, NA 90210
FI
+358.02999929 Fax: +358.02999929
http://www.Templeof.com links back to English Russia after singing the praises of the Temple of the Internet.
Taking it a step further, the owner of http://www.templeof.com is listed as follows:
Temple Of DotCom
345 North Maple Dirve
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US
Domain name: TEMPLEOF.COM
Administrative Contact:
Name, No nagoogleb@yahoo.com
345 North Maple Dirve
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US
+1.49504424244 Fax: +1.49504424244
Technical Contact:
Name, No nagoogleb@yahoo.com
345 North Maple Dirve
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
US
+1.49504424244 Fax: +1.49504424244
Map of 345 North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills, CA
There is a restaurant at that address, http://www.mapledriverestaurant.com/ Could easily be a bogus street address - the Maple Drive Restaurant was formerly owned by Dudley Moore.
Should also note - the listed phone number for templeof.com is completely bogus, incorrect number of digits for a US phone number and doesn’t match a Beverly Hills listing (310 area code).
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your dumb im russian and russians are the best
i am russian but i fell ashamed for the bullshit comments i see here from my comrades.Humor is an international thing but envy is another thing. You will laugh freely if that car whore from India and if its our’s you defend it. Stupidness and uglyness should be promoted all over the world. Start becoming citezents of the world, come abroad and show that you are a good person. This site is cool - I get more interesting info from here with good comments rather then other our sites made for dull people to satisfy their primitive needs.
Well personally i think that there’s nothing to be ashamed of, look, last painted cars are museums on 4 wheels!
“This site is cool - I get more interesting info from here with good comments rather then other our sites made for dull people to satisfy their primitive needs” - by Andres
Dude, you’re a f*cking liar! There are plenty of websites showing EXACTLY the same photos but where you see the bad and the good sides of Russia! Eat shit and die.
I like the shitty early 90’s suzuki with Putin painted on the hoods with bats and the moon….. what are they trying to tell us…. Is the real batman ::Gasp:: PUTIN…. Tun Tun Tun
Russians and Americans are all the same to me: stupid and full of crap. Dont believe your own propaganda.
Oh, but i forgot to add this site is cool, it makes me smile everytime i visit :]
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hahaha. Looks like the stuff they drive in Berkeley.
russia cool
haha lol’z russia is the best country ever america dosent stand a chanse to russia in russia u have alot of funn with a truck in mud not like in america the police is coming and gives u tikets thets fucken gay.. buy buy
mareus u suck like a duck in russia peope live bether then in america like mosckow st. peterburk i lived there 17 years till i came to u.s and in russia its bethjer and they have coller cars in u.s there is only one bugaty in russia there are 9 and 19 are staying in line to get one in 2010 and its 1.9 mill y donr americans buy it because they are fucken gay dont have mony and they donr wana have children because they need mony for them the history of us says so russia is the king of all countrys
you all are so…personal. just try to except each others cultures and yes some are really bad and some are veiwed as really stupid or bad which ever. But the point is that no one and I mean no doesn’t have a sense of humor. Does it matter no. Do I really care no. And I thought this site was about cars not culture and all that other stuff.
My English is very bad, but I would like here to say this cars are very funny and unusual find. Further so! Greeting from (East)- Germany
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Zaporozhets car is nice :o)))
Russians hate foreigners.
Americans welcome foreigners with open arms.
Some people would gritch and boan all the way down, if you hanged them with brand new ropes!
Something about the axles under that Robin’s-egg-colored Zaporozhets in the first 4 pictures. I betcha it no longer has a little 30-HP engine in the rear, to turn THOSE. Anyway, I like that one. We have a few “roads” here in the U.S.A. where such a car would be about right.
Getting it through the snow or the mud would be easy. Getting it through all the legislative effluent to drive it here and not be arrested? That might never be. You still have a good thing going where you can build such a beast and drive it. We lose a little more of that, every time some new “environment” rule is written by some non-elected official with a degree in the arts.
Remember legislators are like old motorcycles. Several strong kicks will be needed to get one going, and then you must stay on top of it with a firm hand, or there is no telling WHERE you could find yourself. Too many of us forgot that. Now we are all stuck with the government they deserve. Learn from our mistakes. Best regards.
Nice fotos.
OK, that was my opinion half a year ago. Did not intend to leave everybody speechless. It’s still my opinion. I’m still impressed by Gearheads all over the former USSR. If it gets YOU there on roads YOU have to use, you did it well. Best regards, everybody. Keep them rolling and DON’T let anyone sell you a “cash-for-clunkers” scam.