Viktor Yanukovych's car collection

[Mustangfan2003]

These old Soviet cars look like direct copies of American cars.  Can't the commies do anything original?







http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140224/CARNEWS/140229914

[Soup DeVille]

Many Volgas were designed under the direction of Ford engineers, sometimes with old Ford tooling.

[Mustangfan2003]

Didn't they buy all the old Packard tooling to build cars as well? 

[Soup DeVille]

Didn't they buy all the old Packard tooling to build cars as well? 

Yep: and also a good portion of captured machinery from BMW and Mercedes found its way into Russian factories for many years.

[cawimmer430]

I believe Packard had some sort of licensing deal with the Soviets back in the day. Either that, or the Soviets just "cloned" them. The latter is more likely.

[Mustangfan2003]

Yep: and also a good portion of captured machinery from BMW and Mercedes found its way into Russian factories for many years.

And the Ural motorcycles.  I believe they did have some sort of agreement to build them before the war though. 

[Mustangfan2003]

Might want to see if there is any tanks in that basement. 

[Submariner]

Can't the commies do anything original?

Da!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4