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“We have mastered the passenger car ZIS-110 – a very difficult automobile. Besides the fact that it requires a great level of production culture, it also demands a great technical maturity,” said I.A. Likhachev, Director of the automotive plant, now named after him, 30 years ago at the plant party conference. ZIS-110, a luxury class limousine, was constructed with account of all latest technical achievements in car industry. This was the first new product mastered by our industry in the first year of peace. Car design engineering began in 1943, during ... More »

As a role model for ZIS-112 partly served “dream car” Buick LeSabre ’51, first presented at the “Motorama” show in the USA. Being later described in numerous technical magazines, it has inspired the gifted designer Valentin Rostkov, who developed the design and overall arrangement of Soviet analog. However, ZIS-112 was not the exact replica of Buick. Having borrowed from him the main feature, “jet” body with the air intake in front, it had a great personality: enormous, almost six meters long, with o-shaped radiator grill and single headlight. By the way, due to this single headlight the car was nicknamed “Cyclops”. In accordance with the order of the ZIS factory director two cars were put into production. More »

ZIL-164 is the cargo truck produced by Likhachev Auto Factory. It was created on the chassis of ZIS-150 by upgrading of some of the latter units. Production period from October 1957 till December 1964 (from December 1961 – ZIL 164A) More »

KIM-10-50 was the first Soviet economy class car, designed on the basis of the British 1939 year "Ford Prefect". Body design was created by designer-engineer V.Brodsky from the Gorky city. Technical drawings of the body and stamps were performed in USA according to his model. Same time was developed the KIM-10-51 cabrio modification. More »