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Four-wheel drive SUV VAZ-2121 “Niva”. This car became a real sensation in the domestic automotive industry. Her appearance was preceded by numerous rumors, speculation and gossip. Soviet motorist, not spoiled by the quality of the roads, has long been needed comfortable passenger all wheel drive SUV, which could with equal success to all around the pavement and the road. And in 1977 he descended from the conveyor of the Volga automobile plant’s first mass—produced all-wheel drive Niva.
From the beginning of the Second world war in the United States of America closely followed the fighting in Europe and I must say, doing generally the right conclusions from the experience of others. In particular, did not go unnoticed and the first evidence of the use by German forces self-propelled artillery. In 1940 the Americans launched work on the creation of artillery systems of similar purpose. As in the case of self-propelled tank destroyers (“modelist-Konstruktor” No. 1, 2002), the first versions of ACS, armed with field howitzers, was established on the basis of half-track armored personnel carrier M3. On the first set, the swinging part 75-mm mountain howitzer M1A1 on the second — 105-mm field howitzer М2А1. These machines received the designation T30 T19 NMS and NMS, respectively. The abbreviation NMS stands for Howitzer Motor Carriage, which literally means “the engine crew howitzer”, but in the semantic — self-propelled howitzer.
The increased capacity PEUGEOT PARTNER. The emergence of a new class of vehicles — the process is usually lengthy. It often happens — the “cool” concept car of unusual shape and unknown purpose produces a sensation at the international car dealers, kindly found by buyers installation series of these cars, well then… Where are these recent global trends — hybrids minivans with sports cars or super-expensive urban mini-cars? At the same time there is growing popularity of new cars recently introduced class, who still do not have a name (some call these cars a station wagon with a high roof, the other — increased capacity, some superuniversality) increases, respectively, and the number of firms producing a similar vehicle. Today coming off the Assembly line a lot of superuniversal — one of them in the first place, PEUGEOT PARTNER, RENAULT KANGOO, CITROEN BERLINGO (DONINVEST ORION M), and FIAT DOBLO.
In one of the rooms for 1968 we talked about the little micro-car, built by A. Krasnov from the Volga city of Togliatti. In the picture is a modernized variant, tentatively called them “the Zhiguli”. Changed body shape and improved utilization of internal useful space and aesthetic appearance; reinforced undercarriage; instead of the M-72 is Read more…