How do you double the value of a communist car? You fill the tank.

These 5 cars are so hilariously bad, you have to look at the situation with a sense of humour.

People in Soviet Russia had to save 11’000 rubles (which is £106,000 today), walk into a car dealership and pay upfront only to hear that the delivery date was in 10 years time.

Then, when the car finally arrived it was comically bad poorly designed, unreliable and many of them were pretty weird. So, why were the Soviet Russians so bad at making cars?

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But before we get to the worst 5, how did it get to the point where a car costs over a year’s salary and the wait time could be measured in decades rather than weeks?

Well, what we now know as Russia, was a strange place in the 60s and 70s.

It was under the Communist regime and the government placed a heavy priority on its military meaning all of the best scientists, engineers, designers, machinery and materials all went straight into the country’s war efforts, rather than working on making good cars.

On top of this, the production of cars was heavily regulated where the government held control of what cars were imported, which were made, who could buy one and how many cars were offered out.


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