Hello again: according to Izvestia, Russia is again trying to create the wheels for the poor, the entrance ticket to the gallery of the club steering wheel and the pedals. The project is the working name of the Leader and involves the creation of two ultra-light cars – crossover and SUV. The idea of a native, as a lump from the rake on the forehead: the plastic body panels on a metal frame, motor box across, constantly leading the front of the plug and, if necessary, the ass. A total of 750 kg of body weight. In short, the dream of the Soviet automodellista 80s.
The development of both cars is conducted on the basis of the laboratory of agricultural vehicles of the Russian agrarian University. K. A. Timiryazev, with the participation of the research Institute of design of cars. Supervising the project, head of laboratory of the University Professor Timiryazev Mengisi Dzotsenidze and his doctoral student Denis Sagarin, Deputy Director of the Institute of US.
Laboratory of agricultural vehicles – already sounds funny. Although Ferruccio Lamborghini also with tractors started. However, the main charm of the project – why, in fact, all of going to write about this, and you will read about it in proper marketing. Namely, in the Declaration of intent to give one machine specific features of humpback ZAZ-965, and the second is not visually, but as it is ideologically closer to the GAZ-69 – see photo. That is to make everything simple, pathetic, and old-fashioned. At the level of students ' course of the last century. That was nothing to break.



And all would have been great if not for one thing: the complete uselessness of the project. Leaders honestly: orders from the manufacturers yet. As there is no diesel engine, which the authors would like to equip their cars. We are ready to continue: and that's just the tip of the iceberg by name. As history teaches us all cars from Russian folk Vase to Prokhorovka e-mobility, to design and build a good and cheap car, you first need a hundred years to train. On cats.
And the idea to re-draw humpback " nothing, sweetheart. Only a hastily svarganennoe 3D picture new Constipation suspiciously like MINI. So below, in any case, remember how it was.