Russia

While the idea of a 6×6 Mercedes G-wagon has tremendous appeal to me, it’s not necessarily the case that more wheels are always better. Take, for example, this ridiculous looking creation that recently turned up in Russia.…

Curling is a game I don’t understand at all. It’s done on ice and has people sliding a stone that looks like an old iron down an icy lane.…

Aviar Motors, an EV maker out of Russia has taken the style of an iconic ’60s muscle car and turned it into a modern EV. The ride is called the Aviar R67, and it looks a whole lot like a 1967 Mustang.…

Russia isn’t exactly known for their cars. Most of the ones I’m aware of are either highly utilitarian, boxy trucks and vans, crazy military style off-roaders, or junky sub-compacts held together with bubble gum and spit.…

I once spent a month in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Many things I did and saw were amazing and wonderful, like the Mariinsky Ballet, the Peterhof, and the Church on the Spilled Blood, but the problem was that I nearly got run down by lunatics in brand new Range Rovers or dilapidated Ladas when trying to get to any of these places.…

Apparently, there’s a reason why planning and design during the Soviet era is often looked at with scorn. And example number one might by the 1964 SARB Start designed by the Regional Committee of the Ukraine.…

Russia’s “classic” LADA cars have a reputation for poor build quality, bad performance, terrible handling, and a complete lack of safety for occupants. But that doesn’t mean their marketing department didn’t try to convince unsuspecting buyers that the cars were brilliant, taking anything you could dish out.…

Here’s some great POV footage of a race in Russia in which competitors drive cheap hatchbacks, at times driving dangerously close to one another. While it’s clearly not as fast as dirt track racing here in America, these guys have to deal with many more hairpin twists and turns, and thick clouds of dirt, rocks and mud flying in their faces the whole time.…

The ATON IMPULSE VIKING-2992 is a Russian built (of course) off road amphibious vehicle that is quite possibly without equal. We don’t know if the company building them still exists or whether these are still possible to find, but ATON IMPULSE claims they sold a number of vehicles in the 2009-2010 timeframe.…

This incredible all-terrain vehicle from Belarus outfit Litvina is capable of taking on just about any terrain you can throw at it. In the videos here, you can see it conquer deep snow, muddy off-road environments, and even propel itself like a boat through the water – though only at speeds of about 2mph.…