[tlozo]

Last year Ukraine had the lowest new car sales since 1967. Just imagine what car sales hey had in 1960s and why.

Lol, yes the good old days of the 1967 soviet Moskvitch.

[NorseViking]

My dad owned one at the time. Beats any non-luxury European make for the price. An 1969 m-24 with V-8 was a best deal in East Europe. It had poor sales mainly because of little parking space for full size cars and high fuel price in East Germany.

[NorseViking]

1973 Volga Gaz-24 Russian Legendary Car in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxj2kuLBN_s&t=319s
Well, now USSR is no more, and I live very very far away. Also, my child hid dream, at least one of them has come true. I own and I drive a 1973 Volga GAZ-24. Funny, but all these 40 + years that I was dreaming of this car not knowing that it was already driving on those beat up Soviet roads counting down to the day we met in the Far-Away-Land...

This was a very prized item in Poland for sure.

[NorseViking]

By the way a 1989 Moskvich a Cadillac-sized decent reliability and cost $3200 in 1990 with v-8. Maybe the post-Soviet economy wasn't that poor but kept down on purpose to curb competition?