Putin takes inaugural ride in Russian-made limousine(picture)

https://www.reuters.com/ ^ | 5/7/18

[PLMerite]

[al_c]

Russian made? Looks like a modified Chrysler 300.

[RightGeek]

The bottom one looks like the old Dodge Magnum

[T-Bone Texan]

It’s Kortezh The Killer.

[BBell]

Coming from Darth Vader that is a compliment.

[libstripper]

Russian made? Looks like a modified Chrysler 300.

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Everybody borrows from everybody else. My 2018 Navigaotr looks a lot like a 2018 GMC. Vlad’s guys are just doing what everybody else does. His new ride looks pretty cool. Got to keep up with the Trumps.

[BBell]

A Chrysler 300. The Poor mans Bentley.

[luvbach1]

At one angle it looked like a 1970 Dodge.

[matthew fuller]

Rolls Royce Dawn?

https://www.zigwheels.com/newcars/Rolls-Royce/Dawn

[Paladin2]

https://images.hgmsites.net/lrg/2017-russian-presidential-limo-kortezh-spy-shots—image-via-s-baldauf-sb-medien_100596885_l.jpg

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Looks like the Green Hornets Black Beauty—does it fire rockets? Maybe. Bulletproof, good bet.

[gogeo]

As I recall the Russkies used one well into the ‘70s that looked like a Packard.

[BBell]

I had never heard of a crore before. Interesting concept.

[gogeo]

Didn’t I see that limo in a Max Headroom cartoon?

[GOPJ]

Nice. Very nice.

[Snickering Hound]

Those old Zil's had a Checker cab coolness...

[elcid1970]

The Soviets were building their own limos from clear back in Stalin’s time. Look up ZIM, ZIS, & ZIL marques. Mostly knockoffs of 1930’s era Packards.

Stalin donated his personal ZIS limo to the Nork dictator Kim Il Sung. It was captured by U.S. forces following the Inchon counterattack & is on display in the U.S. to this day.

There was a fleet of ZIS limos; Stalin rode in them in a simultaneous motorcade like a rolling shell game, such was his paranoia about assassination. Even the Czar had had two identical Imperial trains riding the Trans-Siberian Railway with his exact location unknown.

“In America, you wait for train. In Russia, train lays in wait for you.”

[antidisestablishment]

I think you mean Kia should sue them.

[yarddog]

I saw that car at the County Fair around 1960. The same story too. It didn’t look too bad but did appear a bit dated in design.

[gogeo]

Checker profile, ~~56 Packard front.