You’ve probably got a few gearhead friends with a taste for the exotic. Maybe they’ve got an imported Nissan Skyline, or they’ve got their eye on something European, like a charming little Renault or a German-spec Volkswagen Beetle or even a Suzuki Carry for farm work. These collectors are almost never all that interested in Soviet-era city cars, though, are they? Dacia, Lada, Zaporozhets, these sound less like automakers to the American ear than like the names of Russian satellites.
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