[SkyPilot]

It had either a straight 6 or straight 4 and a three speed manual trans. It also came standard with a heater and radio. This was about as nice a car you could get: most could not afford them. Most could only afford the POS ladas. I guess having a car with a straight 6 back then was really something. I saw a show about the 2 cylinder cars the Communist nations used to turn out. Wow. Just wow.

[Celtic Conservative]

The article I was reading about the Volga was you had to be “connected” e.g. you had to know somebody or be somebody important to get one of them. most if they could afford them could only afford the moskovitch or lada which came with three or four cylinder engines. Or if you were really desperate an imported east German trabant which had an air cooled 2 cylinder 2 cycle engine and a cheap resin- plastic body.

CC