Cars

German automaker Daimler officially opened a Mercedes-Benz factory near Moscow on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin, marking a rare foreign investment into Russia’s car industry.

The Honda Pilot is a mid-size crossover SUV manufactured by Honda and introduced in 2002.Primarily aimed at the North American market, the Pilot is the largest SUV from Honda and features three-row seating. Pilots are currently manufactured in Lincoln, Alabama, and the Pilot was produced in Alliston, Ontario until April 2007.

Russian advertisers of that time were well aware that promotion was a trade engine, and sex helped to sell products.In the USSR, a car was a luxury, not just a means of transportation. It was received as a gift by the most important people in the country. To buy a ‘Zhiguli’ from an official representative, people waited for five years, …

New details have been released about SAIPA’s upcoming sedan model SP100.The future car is being designed on SAIPA’s SP1 platform and will come with an automatic gear box, electronic power steering, side air bags and electronic stability control system.

The automotive industry in the Soviet Union spanned the history of the state from 1929 to 1991. It started with the establishment of large car manufacturing plants and reorganisation of the AMO Factory in Moscow in the late 1920s–early 1930s, during the first five-year plan, and continued until the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991.

The Touring & Automobile Club of the Islamic Republic of homeland (TACI) is scheduled to stage a historical car parade across capital on May 16.

Stout Scarab – 1936 Long before the VW buses of the 1960s, a designer named William Stout designed what one could only describe as the great granddaddy to said bus.Stout was an aircraft engineer before he turned his attention to automobiles. He wanted to bring the luxury element of flying to the road.His airline, Stout Airlines takes credit for introducing features …

Custom rides make us happy. This one, in particular, reaches out to the off-roaders and hot rod enthusiasts everywhere. What you see before you is a 1976 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser.

Designed by Ferdinand Porsche, arguably the most talented automotive engineer of the 20th century, the SSK, short for Super Sport Kurz, broke ground in a number of technical areas including horsepower, a cutting edge transmission and top speed (120 mph). The SSK was the last car that Herr Porsche designed for Mercedes Benz before moving on and starting the Porsche …

We all have fantasies of getting behind the wheel of a  luxury vehicle, but few of us consider what we’d end up paying for insurance coverage. Most people don’t think about how much they’ll spend buying coverage when they’re picking out a vehicle. But they should–on average, insurance accounts for roughly 11% of total ownership costs over a five-year period.