You’re driving down the road. Suddenly, a Toyota RAV4 pulls up beside you. Sprayed on its focus group-derived curves…
It wasn’t a Rolls Royce, nor was it a 7 Series or even a Maybach. No, in my 12-year-old mind, it was the Lincoln…
From across a table crowded with wine bottles, my friend, Mitya Sokolov, announces that he’s flying to the middle of…
Among a sea of rubber-necking passersby, a woman from Bulgaria stops dead in her tracks, and some Polish men in a…
Jerry Heinonen, of the Finnish Car Guys, wakes me up at 5:30 AM. It takes a moment to sink in that I’m in Jyväskylä,…
If there was even a shred of hope for my objectivity, it was gone as soon as I climbed inside the 2019 Lada Niva,…
It’s impossible to talk about Russian cars without delving into stereotypes. And this is because America is among…
It’s the early 1990s. A Toyota Sprinter is wedged half-way onto a cargo ship. Its rear axle floats in the air,…
For most Soviet citizens, buying a new car was financially impossible. To put things in perspective, Alexander…
On a cold afternoon in late January, I pulled into an industrial side-street of Saint Petersburg. There, I met with…