The Gorky Automobile Plant is a legendary Soviet and Russian enterprise. Trucks and cars were produced there. The latter were eventually abandoned due to a sharp decline in demand and the difficulty of competing with used foreign cars. Although, if you look at it, the problem there was rather the low purchasing power of clients. If GAZ had made a new Volga in 2015, who knows, maybe they would have bought these cars.
But the Gazelle, which appeared in the mid-90s, is still breaking sales records. Despite numerous complaints and a gasoline engine, the domestic truck could pull almost twice as much as its foreign counterparts. Yes, the car periodically broke down due to small things, but everything was forgiven for its carrying capacity, which significantly exceeded the declared one. The appearance of the Gazelle Next solved several problems - the lack of a diesel engine and an increase in usable space. The heavy fuel engine was installed from Cummins, bought in China. The power unit turned out to be quite good, but there was a problem with deliveries in 2022. The American owners of the Cummins brand refused to cooperate and supported economic sanctions. But GAZ specialists have already managed to prepare a new engine. It was developed in China, but will be produced in Russia. Not to collect, but to produce. And they will talk about the G51C engine on the Automobile Russia channel.
The Soviet tractor T-40AM, even in the “base”, is better than foreign SUVs
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