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Posted on 06/26/2022 9:00:00 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The newest car model unveiled by Russia's biggest auto manufacturer earlier this month is generating buzz, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
The buzz about AvtoVAZ's Lada Granta Classic -- priced to sell at 678,300 rubles ($12,500) -- is about what it doesn't have: No airbags. No antilock brakes. No electronic stability system. No pretensioners to make the seat belts work properly. No GPS. An engine that complies with emissions standards from 26 years ago.
The reason for all this?
Western sanctions, imposed to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, that have disrupted imports and roiled supply chains where crucial foreign parts and goods came from.
Not just the butt of Russian jokes, the new Lada is the latest in a growing number of examples showing the staggering transformation that Russia's economy is grappling with, on a scale not seen in at least a generation.
Smartphones aren't working properly. Food packaging has to be printed without labels. Clothing factories can't find buttons to sew on shirts.
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
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Doesn’t Russia supply much of the Precious Metals used in vehicular catalytic converters around the world?
If so, new vehicles worldwide could not be able to meet current and future emissions standards.
Your partner in Ukraine already posted this; https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4074014/posts
To be followed shortly by the U.S. (leader in the “Future Third World Country) contest.
Meanwhile, Fed.gov will force Americans to buy $60K electric vehicles.
I’d rather have the $12K car. Without all the government mandates on it, I bet it will last 400K miles also.
Lada? 400k miles? LOL!
Hm. Why can't I buy a car like that?
Not according to my daughter’s friends who live there%
I think this is more propaganda
Dead within 8 months. God willing, of course.
This IS propaganda.
The classic has always been offered like this.
They’ve attempted to end this production run several times in the past.. 70 years out something.
It always comes back by demand.
It would be like people continuously demanding the caprice classic. They would make it.
Is that kind of like the DC induced Outer Limits we’ve been dealing with here the last two years. The average Russian won’t run out of gas or food this year. In our own little Twilight Zone, who knows?
The Ukraine must be in outstanding shape if this is their propaganda.
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