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Russia still has soul makes an electric car that doesn't look like it was made by someone that hates humanity so much they broke every esthetics rule in the design book.


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2018 Aug 23, 10:02am   2,773 views  27 comments

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/move-over-musk-kalashnikov-unveils-electric-supercar-162854131.html
Moscow (AFP) - Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.

The brand, best known for the AK-47 machine gun, presented the decidedly retro-looking pale blue prototype, the CV-1, at a defense expo outside Moscow.

The look was inspired by a Soviet hatchback model developed in the 1970s called "Izh-Kombi," a statement on the Kalashnikov website said.

Holding company Kalashnikov Concern said it has developed some cutting-edge elements for the "electric supercar", including a "revolutionary" inverter. The vehicle can travel 350 kilometres on one charge.

"We are developing our own concept of an electric supercar, which is based on several original systems developed by the concern," the firm said.

"This technology will let us stand in the ranks of global electric car producers such as Tesla and be their competitor," RIA-Novosti further quoted the Kalashnikov press-service as saying.

"We were inspired by the experience of global market leaders in developing our concept."



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1   Tenpoundbass   2018 Aug 23, 10:04am  

See what you can do when you aren't some deviant freak confused with your gender naughty bits so much so you hate everyone and still manage to work in design and STEM?

An Obama voter was no where near this car's design within 2,500 miles at least.
2   Tenpoundbass   2018 Aug 23, 10:05am  

I wonder how many dick joke the crew made during the creation of this car and how many got fired for sexual harassment, I wonder how many MeToo bitches cried wolf, while they had their own gimp in the box at home, they tourture and rape. Aye Asia!?

Fucking deviant freaks, are ruining this country, Russia, China is kicking our asses because we listen to retards instead of giving them shock treatment.
3   RWSGFY   2018 Aug 23, 10:14am  

Yeah, fresh from 1969:

5   Bd6r   2018 Aug 23, 10:21am  

The outcome of this "development" will be money transferred from Russian State to pockets of Putins' cronies and 0 to 1 cars produced, see their previous, zero hedge-touted successes such as tank Armata. Since the collapse of Soviet Union the only achievement of Russia has been in world-winning corruption. Technologically, they could not develop anything even if they wanted, as nearly all of their capable scientists and engineers now work in the West.
6   Bd6r   2018 Aug 23, 10:25am  

@twoscoops - video is cool, but this is better:
www.youtube.com/embed/sTSA_sWGM44

This Soviet song is the original meme. And trollface lvl80
7   Tenpoundbass   2018 Aug 23, 10:28am  

dr6B says
Technologically, they could not develop anything even if they wanted, as nearly all of their capable scientists and engineers now work in the West.


Their rednecks are more capable than the so called Scientists who work in STEM 100% due to affirmative action and social promotions.
Their slackjawed backwater fish bum, would be 10 times more capable than our best scientist in 90% of our companies today.
That's just a fact.

I take Electronics to Lakes Electronics a local repair shop. And if it isn't swap and replace green boards, they wont even look at it.
I know Russians that are novice! just normal guys that don't even work in Electronics but tinker at home. I can take anything over to Sven and he will fix it.
Another guy my Amp tech, only works on Amps and Keyboards, no schematic required. All of the knowledge they have they learned in Russian School system. Not a University or post grad study. They don't even work in Electronics because it's a dead industry for starters. but they tinker with it at home.
8   Ceffer   2018 Aug 23, 10:35am  

Tenpoundbass says




Look at the automatic weapons on the wall back there. Are you sure this isn't AF's police auction warehouse?
9   Bd6r   2018 Aug 23, 10:38am  

Tenpoundbass says
I know Russians that are novice! just normal guys that don't even work in Electronics but tinker at home. I can take anything over to Sven and he will fix it.
Another guy my Amp tech, only works on Amps and Keyboards, no schematic required. All of the knowledge they have they learned in Russian School system. Not a University or post grad study. They don't even work in Electronics because it's a dead industry for starters. but they tinker with it at home.

@Tenpoundbass, they are in US and not in Russia for a reason. The smarter and more driven ones run away from Russia. STEM in US has a YUUGE overrepresentation of people from Soviet Union, especially in math and physics. One reason is of course, as you mention, school system where they teach math and physics and not about front and back holes/sensitivity. But the net result is that talented Russians are not in Russia, but in US or Germany nowadays.
10   RWSGFY   2018 Aug 23, 10:39am  

Tenpoundbass says
Their rednecks are more capable than the so called Scientists who work in STEM 100% due to affirmative action and social promotions.
Their slackjawed backwater fish bum, would be 10 times more capable than our best scientist in 90% of our companies today.


Yep, nobody in US can build a giant rooster sculpture from pure shit, but Russians can and do:

11   Bd6r   2018 Aug 23, 10:42am  

DASKAA says

Yep, nobody in US can build a giant rooster sculpture from pure shit, but Russians can and do:

Or shit stalagmites:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=14d_1486193260
12   Evan F.   2018 Aug 23, 10:53am  

Kinda looks like an old Datsun 510. Except Russian, so you know it's a piece of garbage, like all Russian cars.
13   Tenpoundbass   2018 Aug 23, 11:35am  

I loved the Datsun 510 that thing would turn over by just putting it in nuetral and opening the door, and pushing your leg back and pop the clutch in reverse.
Bam! It would start every time. You could drive it for years before you replaced a bad battery or starter. As long as the alternator and contacts were firing it would start right up every time.
15   zzyzzx   2018 Aug 23, 12:06pm  

Such aerodynamics!
16   RWSGFY   2018 Aug 23, 1:25pm  

P N Dr Lo R says
DASKAA says
Yeah, fresh from 1969:
1965 to 1969 had some of the nicest styled cars of the last 70 years--they still look good today. One of my favorites, 1967 Buick Wildcat


Wildcat was a real car. That "Moscvitch" POS was just a sad wheezy little commie shitbox. The proportions clearly betray what it is. And it had a 50hp engine.
17   Evan F.   2018 Aug 23, 1:32pm  

P N Dr Lo R says
1965 to 1969 had some of the nicest styled cars of the last 70 years-


'67 Camaro FTW! STILL one of the meanest, most badass looking cars ever created. And still the best looking Camaro.

That said, I wouldn't necessarily zone in on one particular era as being better in terms of design. Every era had its dogs and its winners.

Except the late 70s/early 80s. Everything from that era sucked. Lol
18   curious2   2018 Aug 23, 3:55pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Sven


...sounds Scandinavian, or maybe Estonian. What makes you believe "Sven" is Russian?

Tenpoundbass says
Russia, China is kicking


If you believe either of those places is better, you can move there. I think you would find the US better.
21   Patrick   2018 Aug 23, 5:38pm  

Russia does have a problem protecting successful businesses from simply being stolen by the mafia/government (not very distinct entities).

I worked with a Russian guy whose family started a successful ISP. The local police demanded to take it over because they wanted the profits for themselves. His family refused, and the place was raided for some fabricated reason. In the end, they moved to Canada, which has much greater respect for property rights and less corrupt police.
22   curious2   2018 Aug 23, 5:48pm  

Patrick says
The local police demanded to take it over because they wanted the profits for themselves. His family refused, and the place was raided for some fabricated reason. In the end, they moved to Canada, which has much greater respect for property rights and less corrupt police.


That sounds like Hermitage Capital, and the death of Sergei L. Magnitsky.

The OP goes on about how Russia and China do better somehow supposedly because they don't respect the human rights of people he doesn't respect either, but that overlooks the consequences: where there is no respect for people's rights, everyone is vulnerable.

Similar comments have implied that only city dwellers depend on government, as if subsistence farmers had no need for government protection. If that were true, then the founders would not have created a government. They knew from experience that rural farmers could also be killed or oppressed if they did not have a government to protect them. An isolated family, even with a gun, is no match for a foreign army or even a gang.
23   MrMagic   2018 Aug 23, 5:57pm  

Evan F. says
Except the late 70s/early 80s. Everything from that era sucked. Lol


Kids...

They don't know what they don't know....


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24   Ceffer   2018 Aug 23, 6:09pm  

I knew an engineer who spent considerable time in Russia. His group used Russian rockets at Russian facilities for satellite launch programs. He said organized crime presence was conspicuous and obvious at every meeting they ever had with the government program entities. It was to the extent that it was flaunted for effect, if you will. There is, in fact, not that much differentiation in modern Russia.

The relationship between the Mafia in good ole USA and the CIA etc. has been documented, although you won't see organized crime figures openly sitting in on legislative sessions or oval office meetings. Organized crime presents a ready and available pool of black bag operatives, already established with a pseudo military hierarchy and psychopathic moral code, to do all the nasties modern governments crave and desire.

When Gore Vidal made a run at public office, he said the shadowy crime figures approached him in obvious and self advertising ways, and made sure he knew who they were and that he better toe the line if he wanted to be elected and stay elected on a quid pro quo basis.
25   rdm   2018 Aug 23, 9:50pm  

Patrick says
Russia does have a problem protecting successful businesses from simply being stolen by the mafia/government


Yep it is a kleptocracy based on an extractive economy. A huge problem is that their legal system is totally corrupted, and there is no separation of powers. You oppose Puti you end up stripped of your money, in jail or dead. We have issues/problems here, but relative to Russia this is a great country. And yea I will take a Tesla over that POS any day of the week.
26   Evan F.   2018 Aug 23, 11:45pm  

The Challenger, IMHO, has always been ugly AF. And while the Delorean is certainly iconic and memorable, I wouldn't call it beautiful... I can think of many designs that predate it that are much better..
27   MisterLefty   2018 Aug 24, 3:46am  

The classic Challenger and brother 'Cuda ceased production in 1974, FYI.

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