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Driving in Russia
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I've seen these in Bulgaria:
But Russians always seem to drive these:
But Russians always seem to drive these:
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"Red Army"? Onward, for comrade Stalin!
Yeah, that BTR driver cannot into parade.
And Polite Soldiers are strong enough to survive being run over by a 14-ton armoured vehicle.
Lada 111, the wagon version of the 110 ("The Ten"). My dad had a 110.I've seen these in Bulgaria:
It also had a sport version called 110 GTi. This one was also racing in WTCC.
The 111 had a GTi version, too. It was 4-wheel drive and had a 2-liter 150hp Opel engine.
Both 110 and 111 are still produced in Ukraine, known as Bogdan 2110 / 2111.
When I was in Bulgaria, I remember I saw a car looking just like a Lada 2101, but the color was kinda odd - bright turquoise. I thought it was a repainted Lada. But then I knew that Fiat 124 was assembled in Bulgaria from Italian kits. So it was probably a Fiat.
Eww, SsangYongs. Yes, there are awfully lot of them. They're assembled in Russia by Sollers company (the Actyon production is stopped though), and the older models (Korando and Musso) are still produced under TAGAZ marque.But Russians always seem to drive these:
BTW, how do you like this one?
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Why are you moving back? Just wanna know.I think I will have to completely re-learn how to drive when I move back to Russia in a couple of years. I've gotten soft living in Canada.
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Why are you moving back? Just wanna know.
Great food, beautiful women, Ladas.
In all seriousness, I've just never been able to embrace the Western culture and way of life. Been living in Canada for 11 years now, got citizenship 5 years ago, yet I still don't feel at home. And with my parents moving back to Russia as well (mom was invited to teach at NNGU) there's not much point for me to stick around here, especially since the profession I'm studying for (commercial airplane pilot) pays just as well, if not better in Russia as it does here.
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Maybe they're just taking out their frustration on Tilke's crappy track designs
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Women?Great food, beautiful women, Ladas.
In all seriousness, I've just never been able to embrace the Western culture and way of life. Been living in Canada for 11 years now, got citizenship 5 years ago, yet I still don't feel at home. And with my parents moving back to Russia as well (mom was invited to teach at NNGU) there's not much point for me to stick around here, especially since the profession I'm studying for (commercial airplane pilot) pays just as well, if not better in Russia as it does here.
Ehm, I think "lots of beautiful women" is a myth. The concentration of beautiful women here is not higher or lower than in Europe (don't know about North America though, never been there yet).11 years? So you moved away when you were 10, right?
Still didn't forget the language?
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Regarding the roads - yes, you probably will have to re-learn for driving here.
Russia is the country where:
- You may get hit in the back when you drive on the oncoming lane;
- Peds look at both sides when they cross a one-way-traffic road;
- Roads may have flowers growing from them;
- The time between the moment when a traffic light turns green and the moment when you hear a horn in the back because you're standing still, equals to the time of Ferrari 458 gear shifting.
- If you accidentally shut your engine down (when trying to start moving on a manual), the drivers behind you will horn like morons. And if you're a girl, they'll horn even from the sides, staring at you with troll faces.
- Soviet trucks have their exhaust pipes directed right to your window, and fart their black diesel smoke right to your face. Closing the window doesn't help always. Soviet engineers designed it to choke the capitalists in their small cars.
- Truckers have gas masks on their gas filling caps. Can you guess why?
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Women?
11 years? So you moved away when you were 10, right?
Still didn't forget the language?
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Regarding the roads - yes, you probably will have to re-learn for driving here.
Russia is the country where:
- You may get hit in the back when you drive on the oncoming lane;
- Peds look at both sides when they cross a one-way-traffic road;
- Roads may have flowers growing from them;
- The time between the moment when a traffic light turns green and the moment when you hear a horn in the back because you're standing still, equals to the time of Ferrari 458 gear shifting.
- If you accidentally shut your engine down (when trying to start moving on a manual), the drivers behind you will horn like morons. And if you're a girl, they'll horn even from the sides, staring at you with troll faces.
- Soviet trucks have their exhaust pipes directed right to your window, and fart their black diesel smoke right to your face. Closing the window doesn't help always. Soviet engineers designed it to choke the capitalists in their small cars.
- Truckers have gas masks on their gas filling caps. Can you guess why?
Yeah I still speak Russian, forgot how to write by hand though, but it'll come back.
I'm guessing the best car to get in Russia then, is a "lifestyle pickup" like this GAZ:
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The Shishiga? Good, but may be still not enough.I'm guessing the best car to get in Russia then, is a "lifestyle pickup" like this GAZ:
Better get an IS-3 instead
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Or SpinTires.Those Russion cars and trucks are perfect cars for a new top of the game Off Road race game, aka 1nsane.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/spintires-the-ultimate-off-road-challenge-demo.282431/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/263280/
All about Soviet trucks.
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Random body falls out of truck in Russia
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Women?
RageRacer, I've only dated Russian chicks, I think that says a lot.
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Lada Samara + sports wheels + racing chair + rear wing + gopnik behind the wheel =
Mechanic Petrovich had a real good booze yesterday, woke up in his van hungover, decided to walk outside and thought it's standing still...
Mechanic Petrovich had a real good booze yesterday, woke up in his van hungover, decided to walk outside and thought it's standing still...
Another reason to buy a KrAZ.Oops
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Swimming Niva. (language warning for Russian speakers)
^The engine's still running!
Catch phrase:
"Oww, my balls are getting wet!" (1:15)
(language warning for Russian speakers)^The engine's still running!
Catch phrase:
"Oww, my balls are getting wet!" (1:15)
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To be quite honest, it's actually pretty good. Pretty decent drivers, usually courteous and patient (as in we won't obnoxiously blow our horns at someone because they are keeping us back, we would quicker wait for the right opportunity to overtake, if we can). Of course, there is the occasional idiot driver on the road, but every country has them.
We drive on the left side of the road as opposed to the right, and it's predominantly two-lane. The island is extremely small. That being said, we have a crazy amount of cars in comparison to the size of the country and its population. Giving a rough guesstimate, about 4/5 households have a car, and half of those households have more than one (par exemple: my house is made up of 5 people, each with a driver's license, and we have 3 cars in total).
So with those numbers, can you imagine what the traffic would be like in the heart of town on a Friday afternoon at 4pm when most of the working class are done for the day and parents are picking up children from schools? Half of the roads in town are one-ways and barely wide enough to fit 3 parallel cars (in some cases, we are epic enough to squeeze 4). Oh did I mention we don't have traffic lights? Yeah, it's crazy, and looking for parking can be even worse. But like I said, we usually don't get upset with other drivers unless they blatantly do something selfish and or foolish.
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. More specifically, it varies. At one point, roads can be as smooth as a baby's bottom, then become extremely bumpy, albeit, not as bad as ->(x). Only remote areas like the mountains or beach roads are unpaved, and if they become more populated (housing developments etc)...or if the Government is looking for more votes, then they will get paved.But to help my point, I'm actually going to show you in just a bit.
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This video sums it up nicely, they may not be driving but the spirit is there:
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