Russian cars in America. Why don't American cars like in Russia? Big motors

The US car industry is the largest in the world, but we are afraid to buy its products! New overseas cars stand in salons for months, and the purchase of a used "American" is comparable to suicide. I unwind a detective story, which is the cause of distrust.

Strange, but the fact: we are missing american cars. Moreover, cars of Japanese and European brands from America, even if they were in due time imported to the United States, appreciate noticeably lower than those sold from us or in Europe. And if the brand or model was sold only in the states, then the ratio is very specific, and only a few fans of the brand or model appreciate it.

It is a little strange to see if you know that the same, deeply loved people, BMW X5-X6 are produced at the plant in Spartanburg in the USA. The same story - with Mercedes M-Class And also near the models that we used to consider European.

And nothing! These "Americans" will drive, do not particularly annoy the problems and most of the owners do not even know the origin of their cars. So it's all about stereotypes? And in general, where does this alert attitude come from, that he gave rise to him and would not have to forget about him? Let's try to figure out.

Classic still dies

Why am lovers of the classic American car industry are a mansion from ordinary car enthusiasts, in general, the secret does not represent. Multiliest motors that need to be fed large volumes of gasoline, pivot suspensions, large salons of huge machines - all these features of the classic American car industry remain in the past, leaving a non-healing mark in the hearts of the "real" fans of America. Since 2011, there are no more classic "fullsayzov" - the latter was Ford Crown Victoria (), but the heritage remained. But what is included in it, now we have to figure it out.

American and his car

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Immediately I want to make a reservation. Russian views were formed on the basis of what kind of automobile America was 5-10 years ago. Now everything is similar to those times, but still somewhat different. Americans slowly transplanted on the "Japanese" and "Koreans", buy electric cars, hybrids and microcaras like Fiat 500 and Smart. But to understand the origin of the stereotype, you need to flip several pages of American history back.

So, what are the main features of the United States from the point of view of the motorist? Yes, that this country is "sharpened" to use the car every day. Few residents of large cities can live using public transport, and for the rest of the alternatives, cars did not come up with. No sidewalks, no transitions, no developed public transport, and gasoline is hardly twice as cheaper than in Europe.

And the distances are huge! Hundred miles to work? Nothing terrible, you can live. And the attitude to the machine is appropriate, for the most part it is not a way of self-expression, but just a tool for life. And as a tool, it must be convenient, inexpensive and reliable. Practical. So, why don't you like "Americans"?

OldSmobile Regency 1997-98

Big motors. Simple motors

In America, they do not understand why you pay for a motor with a volume of 2.4 liters more than the motor with a volume of 2.0, if everything else is the same. So B. model row Usually one row "four", one V6 and maybe more motor more. For turbocharddv or direct injection, so be, will pay, as well as for the gearbox with best characteristics. But not for the difference in the working volume. For this reason, in the US, the motors of one type always have it close to the maximum for their type. If "Four", then 2.4 - 2.5 liters, if the "six", then 3.5 - 4.0. Downsayz? No, you did not hear ... well, almost. "Ford" is trying to explain to all that it is great, but their turbocharged cars on fuel consumption in the tests of American magazines lose atmospheric classmates.

And with huge American runs, the complexity of the motor and the manufacturer's warranty is important. For a long time, the standard has become a guarantee of 5 years on all aggregates, which means that the motors must be made reliable. So that Volkswagen in the USA until recent years have no small TFSI engines - inline "fives", V6 atmospheric, large "four" liters for two working volume and with eight valves, and turbocharged motors only 1.8 - 2 liters, not less. By the way, to the question of stereotypes ... Volkswagen has very bad glory among Americans. Early models for the local market have proven themselves with "Lomuchi" and are still considered a commodity for ... mmmm ... not the most intelligent people.

But back to the engines. Not that no one was concerned about the efficiency. Even with cheap gasoline, this is a very relevant question. But they do not need economy when working at idle, but with a small and medium load, to economically "cut" on the cruise control on the autobahn their dozens and hundreds of miles. And the power still need more to be elementary to keep in the stream. Moreover, no one charges on it, so 300 forces - the most it is for family sedan in basic configuration.

Non-the American Motor V8

Or 288, like a modern ford crossover EDGE, which for reasons of saving on taxes, does not buy us. After all, each "horse" over 250 is an additional gap in the owner's pocket.

In general, the motors are obtained large and mostly fairly simple. But there will not smell outdated there. Aluminum blocks of cylinders have long displaced the cast iron, the voltage of half cylinders are massively used on V6. Yes, and hybridity in honor. But the "oldskal" motors under the hoods are just not - the classic V8 disappeared, lifting its place in large and very economical V6 or very powerful "eights", but already ultramodally, multiclapped and with upper camshafts.

Ford Edge.

Mediocre manageability

In America, somehow it is not very customary to endow the car invested Europeans "the pleasure of driving." It is enough so that in the drifts did not leave, but on the autobahn, it was like a cannouncer kernel, in a straight line, not deviating anywhere. Best of all, if you do not need to keep behind the wheel, and do not be distracted by the eating Donutant (Big-Mc has long ceased to be "folk food" in the US). So adaptive cruise control and numerous control systems are "blind" and not very "blind" zones - this is exactly what replaces the handling, the feeling of the machine and the other "pleasures" of the middle European. And the point here is not in tradition, but in the relief - just America for the most part "smooth", and the roads are direct. In Europe, the mountains, hills and winding tracks remaining from medieval times.

And if some of the Americans want to "edit the chariot", that is, hundreds of small firms that your "Mustang" or there "Cadillac" will be done by both "feeling of the steering wheel", and a well-switched box, and "Holding" will add in turns. Yes, and no one forbids buy an imported car, it will all be there in the basic configuration, only slightly strained under the American tastes.

Poor decoration salon

In the cabin american car First of all, the space is valued, the power of the air conditioner, the ability of the chairs does not stop the jacket, and the upholstery is easy to wash. And so that no special nubuck and suede that is afraid of open windows, dirty rags and require care in a specialized workshop. Even preferably great backseat. Well, there is so accepted, just in case, suddenly teenagers will ride on the car, or in a long road to sleep for himself.

The first and only one in the US, the Soviet car for a long time was "victory", brought from Finland by an American of Odessa descent Stanley's descent, but since then the situation has changed dramatically. But who, how and for which it buys and exploits soviet classics in USA? It tells the operator and photographer Pavel Suslov, who removes the video blog about domestic cars in America.

1. It's hard to believe in it, but soviet carsmobile in the United States is not just a local phenomenon, but an emerging movement. The largest club of Soviet cars in Seattle, where even the thematic museum, and the USSRGARAGE association in Los Angeles. But the fees are constantly held in New York, and in Chicago, as well as in Miami, Portland and other cities.

Interestingly, the owners of the machines only in 90 percent cases are immigrants from Russia and the CIS countries, and the remaining ten do not even speak Russian. One of the bright representatives of this unusual retro movement is called Alexey Borisov - he founded the CCCPGARAGE club in California. Initially, Alexey bought in San Francisco UAZ 469, and now it also has VAZ-2106, GAZ-69 and Motorcycle K-750.

2. On the last show called "CCCP Car Show" in Los Angeles gathered 18 cars, and with each month of movement participants only adds. Moreover, in addition to its own car exhibitions Owners "Volga" and "Zhiguli" regularly arrive at the general fees classic carswhere unusual soviet equipment Enters the center of attention.

3. Americans are difficult to surprise the traditional classics: the country has a huge number of rarities of different levels, from Ferrari 250 GTO to all sorts of hot childbirth, but soviet cars Until now, cause questions from local.

Particularly active people on the streets react to UAZ - one of the local autoenterists even compared it with a classic American school bus: The same uncomfortable dermal seats, iron floors and a rigid suspension, which is sometimes poured to the ceiling.

4. Most people in Soviet cars surprises the lack of cupboards - in the American they are installed almost from the fifties. They will not explain that in the USSR, they simply had nothing to put in them, and now, Starbucks is far from every step.

Another surprise is the absence of some models of head restraints. People, laughing nervously, ask about airbags.

5. Passersby react to Soviet classics in the most unexpected way. There were people overwhelming through four continuous traffic, spitting on all orders and rules, only to approach and set a couple of questions: "What is the six? We had such in the 80s, we went to the cottage! ".

Soviet cars are located in absolutely different ways. Some of them are brought from Canada, where they were supplied various models Up to 1997, for example, Lada Niva, Lada Samara. and 2106/2107.

6. A large number of cars are delivered directly from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and other countries - cars under the order sail on ships in the Los Angeles ports, San Francisco, New York and Miami, but, alas, not always in good condition.

For example, I recently arrived in California in the state of GAZ 66. A car was left from Belarus, completely renovated, and sailed without gasoline, with cut seats and trim. Apparently, something in the cabin was looking for customs and reacted to the goods very rude.

7. The cost of Soviet cars in the States varies very much depending on the state and appetites of the seller. The prices of "Zhiguli" in the museum condition can begin from 8 thousand dollars with delivery and customs clearance, and end by 27 thousand. In any case, it is at such a price that one VAZ-2105 from Massachusetts is now sold.

These same guys are on sale and LUAZ, and ZAZ 968, and Moskvich-2141 Aleco. It is not clear who will buy this masterpiece of automotive for the money, but practice shows that sooner or later the client is located

8. Bought "Zhiguli" still need to repair and this in most cases are engaged in mechanics who worked with our technique during the Union, even before immigration. There are those who are engaged in the restoration and stirring salon, there are specialists in painting and mechanical part.

There are few such mechanics in the same Los Angeles, but there are enough forces for club cars. For the American service, the domestic classic is too specific - you need to know the nuances of care and maintenance.

11. In general, the path to American services for UAZ and Volga is ordered, but their fate in the US today looks rainbow, more than ever. With such a developed automotive culture, the topic of Soviet cars will acquire increasing mysteriousness and exclusivity. Who knows, maybe it turns into a new trend?

Today, during the search, I came across such a photo from Seattle, Washington. This is LADA 110 with numbers of the same state. I, when I wrote a post about Renault 504, found out that you will get in the USA foreign car It is not easy, it must pass local certification and crash test, and it costs quite a lot of money, and is not at all uncomfortable when importing single instances. Either I did not understand something, or that source was wrong (perhaps), or AvtoVAZ certified the top ten for the United States (almost incredible), or I do not understand how she leaked here. Any ideas?

I can understand the feelings of the photographer, recently on one of the streets of Brooklyn overtook the red VAZ 2102, I was so surprised that I even forgot to take a picture. The first second you do not react in any way, and then there happens a small shock from what you saw - as if you were overtaken not an ordinary basin, but at least a ship of the aliens, the vase classic on New York streets looks so unnatural.

Immediately I remembered one film, which I watched a long time ago, in times when the color TV was a luxury, the TV channels switched by the passatships, and the usual video recorder "Electronics VM-12" was a sign of unrealistic wealth of its owner. The only way to see new-fashioned foreign films with a bellive translation was a trip to the video galleon located in the entrance of the neighboring house.
There, I saw another American horror with the name "rat". In the film, giant rats from the sewage attacked some major American city and his unfortunate residents. It is now difficult to watch it without a smile, but for that time it was a completely normal film, I remember even a little scary.
By the level of impact on the faster brain of the Soviet schoolchildren, the film "Aliens" was definitely in the first place, but the "rats" were the same. It was about what then to talk on school change, and then it was not particularly necessary to choose, which was shown in the video galleon, they watched.
But I remember this film not by the killer rats, but by the fact that his protagonist, completely unexpectedly, went to the Zhiguli of the 3rd model. It was very strange - the American film and the Soviet car. We, I remember, then laughed and discussed for a long time. Funnier was only the moment of one Indian film, where the local millionaire and the owner just went to the world cool car with a personal driver. The car was VAZ 2101, there the whole hall was chosen into the voice. This later, having visited India, I realized that it was actually cool.
After the years, the impressions were forgotten, and even it became like that did not live in that film and were, it was not necessary that you could not see the young pioneer in a steady entrance. After reading the link, I naturally, first of all I began to look for that old film and found to my considerable surprise. He was called "Deadly Eyes", and not what nor "rats" was removed in the distant 1982, but he was not American, but Canadian. But who of us then understood the difference, looked at the TV screen, that the United States that Canada is exactly the same. The film, by the way, is so sedured that there is even on YouTube, you can enjoy.

Frame from the film. Really it did not seem to me - these were the most real Zhiguli.

In the case of the Zhiguli from the film, the difference between Canada and the United States is, because VAZ cars officially shipped only to Canada, this could only happen in a nightmarish dream.

In 1977, a five-year import contract was signed car Lada In Canada. In May 1978, the first part of the "Canadian" modification "Sixters" was sent over the ocean - VAZ-21061-37. Outwardly, this version differed from standard option Massive energy absorbing bumpers of the original design with the built-in signal optics built into them. This change was caused not to the desire to "embellish" the original exterior of the car, but by security requirements in North America.

It is the overall safety standards that other differences are explained: the farcasters became entirely orange, and the section of turn signs rear Lights - Red. In the catima on the rear wings of the car new modification Special light bulbs are built. Together with turning pointers on the front wings, they performed the functions of the side overall lights When turning on the near light.

The car on the torpedo (left of the clock) appeared the scoreboard signaling about unusted safety belts. With this, the scoreboard was combined with a light board "Check Engine" - as such machines were equipped with a system for reducing toxicity using catalytic neutralizer and adsorber.

Also, in VAZ-21061-37 some changes were made. brake system, after some time, were implemented at the later models of "Zhiguli". VAZ-21061-37 today is a very high value among collectors and just lovers of "classic" cars VAZ as the most rare car From the entire range of VAZ-2106.
The text is taken from the Internet space, but it is so quoted that it is already impossible to install its original source.

Cars in Canada from the USSR were delivered naturally ships across the ocean. Cargo ships Dartmouth came to the port in new science, there they were unloaded, and from there cars delivered through the dealer centers of Lada Cars of Canada. In the first year, it was possible to sell about 1,000 cars. In 1979, 5,649 cars have already been sold. By 1981, sales increased to 12,900 pieces. Sales were recognized as very successful, and the Canadians themselves pretty willingly bought the Soviet cars unwanted earlier. But they were difficult not to buy, Lada was the cheapest car on the Canadian market of the time, and at the same time not the worst. The main competitors were Czechoslovak Skoda and Romanian dacha. On the territory of Canada, 43 dealerships worked on an average of 1000 cars per month.

Lada dealership in Canada.

Additional options to the Soviet car were suggested quite a bit - one could additionally order a leather sheath for the steering wheel, wooden or covered skin Gearbox handle, AM / FM radio, alloy wheels and mats. On the car was given factory guarantee: 12 months or 20,000 kilometers, which will come earlier.

Lada Samara in the parking lot in front of the dealer center in Canada.

In 1979, appreciating the success of sales of Soviet cars in neighboring Canada, the American company Satra Industrial Corp. from New York, decides to start selling cars stamps Lada. On the territory of the United States, but their plans were not destined to come true, in December 1979, Soviet troops are included in Afghanistan, and the US Congress blocks trade relations with the Soviet Union. The Americans could not buy Lada in Canada and bring it to the USA, the car did not pass through the American exhaust standards of those years.

Canadians believed that the USSR to conquer the market, deliberately sells cars below their price and called it the largest dumping in the entire history of the country. The Soviet Union was acutely needed convertible currency, and dumping was the only way to achieve high sales in a completely new and highly competitive market.

Because of the war in Afgarentan lada owners Sometimes problems happened - some refused to fill on benzokolones, and one Canadian businessman even forbade Parking Soviet cars in the parking lot in front of the company's office.

Later, the line of cars was replenished with the Lada Niva budget SUV, which was also very successful, and Lada Samara was added to them in 1990. Sales were minimized in 1997 due to strong competition from Korean automakers, and because of the design of Russian cars already outdated at that time.

An interesting frame from the film. What is the hatch for half the roof? The classics of the hatches did not have a turn, but even more so huge. What is this - Canadian collective farm or the secret option of the Soviet manufacturer for the overseas consumer?