A few months before the U.S.S.R. fell apart, we tested one of its finest automobiles. Also, one of its only automobiles.
From the June 1989 issue of Car and Driver.Not another lowball-car test? Give us a break! Haven't we already had enough Yugos, Hyundais, Daewoos, Protons, Chaikas, Hong Qis, etc., etc. to open the First Botswana International Auto Show without loading down these pages with more self-propelled junk from the Third World and other backwaters of civilization? Show some mercy!But wait a minute.
The Samara's instrument panel sports a vacuum fuel-economy gauge, as well as the standard fuel, water-temperature, and voltage gauges. Conspicuous by its absence is a tachometer. The radio is a 'Russian' Sparkomatic that, in the spirit of Gorbachev's glasnost, does not automatically jam heavy-metal rock music.
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