Greetings friends, both old and new, as I once again take you on a journey from the mid 80s to the late 90s to turn over some forgotten old stones and look at the weird, quirky cars that could've been. But weren't.

Please be really normal about the USSR in the comments. I'm watching you, I'll know if you argue!

CORRECTION: The second GAZ 3106 Ataman-II prototype didn't show up until the early/mid 2000s.

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Bibliography (Also extra reading if you want to get into the nitty gritty):
https://www.rbth.com/history/333902-g...
https://en.delachieve.com/gaz-3104-vo...
https://taylrrenee.com/avtomobili/231...
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/cla...
https://ceautoclassic.eu/the-forgotte...
https://www.carjager.com/blog/article...
http://www.denisovets.ru/gaz/gazpages...

Soundtrack:
0:00 State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
0:55 Papers, Please: Theme Song - Lucas Pope
3:06 Katyusha (Instrumental) - VladimirGLenin
4:18 Crystal City - Time Machine (Хрустальный Город - Машина Времени)
9:03 Blue Dream - Vova Blue & The Brothers In Reason (Голубая мечта - Вова Синий и Братья По Разуму)
11:47 Last Hero - Kino (Последний герой - Кино)
13:29 State Anthem of the Russian Federation
14:00 From Russia With Love - Huma-Huma
14:23 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Theme - James Hannigan
15:02 Close the door behind me, I'm leaving - Kino (Закрой за мной дверь, я ухожу - Кино)
18:09 Rock 'n' Roll is Dead - Akvarium (Рок н ролл мёртв - Аквариум)
20:33 There will be a day - Russians (Будет день - Россияне)

Sorry for the long titles but a lot of these songs are very hard to find unless you google them in Cyrillic so I'd be remiss not to provide them as such.