Prototype IZH-2126 "Orbit", turned into "Ode"

Experimental designs exist in the automotive world for a purpose. Using their developments and improving weak points, serial samples are subsequently created. Of course, sometimes prototypes can be better than a production model. Or, it happens that a promising prototype never gets the green light for mass production. This picture is the saddest. After all, we all lose a model that could become someone's four-wheeled friend. Or maybe even pride. Unfortunately, this, especially during Soviet planned production, happened all the time.


One such example is the prototype IZH-2126 Orbita, which appeared in 1979. It bore the name "series O1" and differed from the serial model, later called "Oda". Today, only one copy has survived. Despite its venerable age, the hatchback car body looks very stylish. No worse than his foreign contemporaries or, say, the same GXNUMX. Much of the concept car is well thought out. This and improves the aerodynamics of the slope of the windshield. Or, for example, the lack of a janitor on the rear window. It is perfectly compensated by the oncoming wind flow. The car also has other pleasant moments, which are described in the video from the Ivan Zenkevich PRO Cars channel.