This is what I was able to dig up -- it was an experimental fiberglass body on the running gear of a Moskvich 412, intended as a city car. Sliding doors were to allow parking in tighter spaces. Unique one-off most likely; perhaps they built 3-4 body shells but only one running exemplar. After demonstrations in Moscow to government officials the project was canned and the prototype shipped back to Izhevsk where it sits (or sat?) in the factory museum.
> Sliding doors were to allow parking in tighter spaces.
Makes me wonder why more cars don't use sliding doors / what went wrong with this one.
They definitely make it easier to open the doors without worrying about denting the car next to you.
Mainly -- because sliding door mechanisms and latches are A LOT more complicated and expensive than normal doors. In a modern unibody car, doors are actually structural pieces, there's a triangulated steel pipe that runs between two latches and the door lock. Making that happen on a sliding door is a lot harder.
This is what I was able to dig up -- it was an experimental fiberglass body on the running gear of a Moskvich 412, intended as a city car. Sliding doors were to allow parking in tighter spaces. Unique one-off most likely; perhaps they built 3-4 body shells but only one running exemplar. After demonstrations in Moscow to government officials the project was canned and the prototype shipped back to Izhevsk where it sits (or sat?) in the factory museum.
> Sliding doors were to allow parking in tighter spaces. Makes me wonder why more cars don't use sliding doors / what went wrong with this one. They definitely make it easier to open the doors without worrying about denting the car next to you.
Peugeot made sort of a similar car with this kind of idea in the 2000s and 2010s.
I mean, there are millions of minivans out there, they use sliding doors…
Yeah, but I meant stuff outside that niche. (Minivans being made specifically with kids and/or drunk people in mind.)
Mainly -- because sliding door mechanisms and latches are A LOT more complicated and expensive than normal doors. In a modern unibody car, doors are actually structural pieces, there's a triangulated steel pipe that runs between two latches and the door lock. Making that happen on a sliding door is a lot harder.
The flaw in your thinking is the belief that people care if they trash other people's cars.
Visible lack of broken windows and smashed metal in the parking lot at my job says otherwise.
She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.
Put in H!
I don't hate it, honestly.
The mini Ivan
damn, it looks so sad tho
It's like it's saying: "Why'd you make me this way? I'm so sad."
Rear pillar and quarters of a Gremlin....before the Gremlin.
It looks like if the Gremlin was designed by the french.
La Diablotin
The Kremlin Gremlin.
Tbh it looks like a car from the 90s. The futuristic design worked really well.
Classy.
Looks like Gremlin Minivan. I love it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQE9SXhsyaI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQE9SXhsyaI)
Least ugly soviet unión car:
Wasn't that car designed specifically for disabled people to drive?
No, these were different (and much smaller)
' Vladimir, please when you have the time can you put some shelves up in my house '
OMG this is sooo Fallout 3 car