Russian supercar anyone..?

[Taffycat]

With a price tag of about £86,000, Marussia is the first luxury sportscar produced in Russia.

Story and video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11935565

 

[nivrip]

Hmmm.......


Russian supercar = oxymoron I believe.

 

[V_R]

Looks nice, but its Russian!

lol

 

[historian]

The Russians were good engineers. I remember in the 60s their 8mm and 16mm cine cameras they were good as were their lenses. So making cars is not beyond them.

historian

 

[floppybootstomp]

Underneath the sleek exterior lurks a Trabant....

 

[historian]

Underneath the sleek exterior lurks a Trabant....

Yeah but what a Trabant.
historian

 

[floppybootstomp]

The Russians can make good stuff, agreed. Yuri Gagarin will agree with this.

Trouble is, that Communist ideal did rather set budgets, hence the Trabant and Chernobyl.

Perhaps their culture also confused our Eastern friends druing WW2 where initially they murdered Polish peeps, then had a change of view and started trying to fight alongside them.

The Polish, unsurprisingly, were uninmpressed.

Still, now the Russkies have been unshackled from the Communist yoke they are free to enjoy all those Western delights. Like making supercars, organised crime, drug dealing, pimping, drugs, alcohol, gambling and reading the Beano every Tuesday.

My my, I am political tonight, lol

 

[Quadophile]

The Russians produced some of the best classical music.

 

[floppybootstomp]

The Russians produced some of the best classical music.

Born of angst

 

[Quadophile]

What are you doing on the forum? It's past bedtime for you.

 

[klen_]

I remember in the 60s ...

Now everything is wrong, now everything is much worse. I would say it was the only decade when life was normal (in Russia)