UAZ Simba, Bear, Oka-2 and other failures of the Russian automobile industry
No one is safe from failures. And the most famous companies had projects and models that in history have survived as failures.
But here we are talking about projects that were doomed to failure. Despite the fact that their initiators and other ardent optimists wanted this to be not so.
These projects had no prospects, if only because those who promoted them sometimes seemed to forget that the car, no matter how beautiful and technically advanced, was still a product.
Creating something new, it would be nice to estimate: is the market waiting for this revelation? The gallery below is by no means a concept - all these cars loudly declared as pre-production. But they also learn from mistakes, they say …
Four doomed auto projects of new Russia
- 11 unique domestic cars that could go into the series, see here.
- The avant-garde projects of Soviet car designers are here.
- You can find a photo selection of the most disastrous cars of the 21st century here.
- Unusual experiments by automakers can be found here.
- We collected photos of Volga cars that few people saw in this publication, and little-known Moskvich cars here.