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@Scalieback. You're doing the wrong conclusions from a single experience. After passing once on VAZ 2101, you deduce that this is a good car. It was a good car in the early 70-ies. You constantly romanticizing the USSR. The Soviet Union was "the country"queue.
Ok, I have posted a video of the Saxon struggling to climb a mound that the BRDM did effortlessly. Now, why don't you post a video of Saxon going up the mound effortlessly, with or without the handbrake on? That way, we can be convinced. Until then, your claims remain unsupported claims.
Coming to VAZ-2101 Zhiguli or PAL 118NE, each is a licensed produced copy of the Fiat 131, just like Ural Motorcycle is a licensed produced copy of the BMW R71. Neither are originally Russian or Soviet, but they are Russian or Soviet anyway. Original Russian or Soviet cars would be GAZ Volga, GAZ Chaika, ZiL Limo, etc., that I would first admire, and original Russian or Soviet motorcycles would be Izh Jupiter, Planeta, etc..