Toyota is well known in Russia. She is also universally loved. The main Toyota of “all Rus'” is the Land Cruiser. And even though the SUV is not very common in our country, they want it. And those who have them take care of their cars. To understand the love for the Kruzak, just look at the prices on the used market. There they ask for an average of 90 million rubles for old cars from the 1,5s. Talking about the pre-restyling 80 Series SUVs. And these were produced from 1989 to 1994. There is a more popular Toyota - the Camry sedan. But she didn't deserve the status of a legend. This is just a high-quality business-class car, nondescript, it should be noted.
Toyota can make interesting models, they just don’t reach the masses. The reasons are banal - high cost and non-standard appearance. Take the Toyota FJ Cruiser, for example. A strange SUV that looks more like a toy. That's why it didn't catch on with rich Russian drivers. It is undignified for them to travel in such a car. After all, he does not evoke respect, but smiles. And this despite serious off-road potential, a frame and an uncontested 4,0-liter engine. And how the Toyota FJ Cruiser feels in the Russian forest in winter can be seen on the Vladimir Melnikov channel.
The K-46 truck crane on the ZIL-164 chassis is a triumph of Soviet builders
Soviet truck cranes did not have an impressive boom reach, but were still valued at construction sites. Of course - they made manual work tens, or even hundreds of times easier...
