They have lots of cheap oil and gasThey are more conservative and don't care about climate change and other environmentalist stuffTheir terrain is ideal for off road vehicles and pickup trucksSo why don't they make 7L V8 for example? Instead they prefer making 2L 4-cylinder cars.
Bro they're busy dying in their hundreds of thousands in a futile war and will have a civil war after that.
>>28973754>civil warThey're too cucked these days to even manage that.
>>28973750they're all pretty occupied with meat-grinder brother war #30654 so that jews will have an empty place to live when israel finally gets steamrolled by it's neighbors. engine size is not at the top of their priorities list right now
>>28973754>>28973767Ok but even before the war they used to mostly make tiny engines. The only times they make a 4L+ V8/V10 engines is if it's a car for a politicians or police interceptors.
>>28973750>cheap oil and gasThat's sold abroad for cash for Putin and his buddies. The peons only got what didn't sell, which wasn't much. Now that their "shadow fleet" is being taken down perhaps more will be sold domestically though I understand some sanctions are being lifted which means that oil/fuel could be sold through legitimate outlets so maybe not.
>Instead they prefer making 2L 4-cylinder cars.Russia has barely been building anything and designing even less on their own. You might as well ask why Arabs don't built V8s.
because russia isnt a car centric country
Do they even make cars anymore? Never really thought about it.
>>28974122only the highest quality
>>28974122Rebadged chinkslop
>>28974122>>28974126Some of them are reportedly based on Renault-Nissan platforms previously built there. Who knows how much lost technology they had to replace with chinashit, though.Vehicles like >>28974124 have been made there since the Soviet times, and can probably still be manufactured domestically.Each is often a bit of an artisan piece since the panels are made in hand-operated presses, hand-welded together, often with ad-hoc assembly phases like hammering the panels a bit so they fit together well enough for the weld to reach and connect the pieces.Some masterpieces occasionally have doors that open straight, and even consistent panel gaps if the vodka dose was just right that day.
>>28973754>>28973757>>28973767/k/ikes
>>28973750Cars in general are expensive here, cheapest costs around 11000$. It is a small sedan without ac, mt, mechanical window lifters etc. Also with average median income of 800$ and averge interest rate for a new car is around 14% and for a used cars is 20-26% most people can't afford that.>Instead they prefer making 2L 4-cylinder cars.I'd say it's mostly 1.6. Lately avtovaz started making 1.8 engines on a lada vesta family which is just a 1.6 with a different crankshaft and connecting rods. Also comes with a double price of a base model which is 30000$ for a small outdated car with chinese copy of jatco cvt.The other car maker which is UAZ makes mostly horribly inefficient 2.4l engines.
>>28974177>chinese copy of jatco cvt.Were those the CVTs that were turning themselves into metal shavings in a matter of months when they first started using them?
>>28974182Yeah those, but it's not so bad because ladas are small and light cars.I want to add to previous post, having anything large than 2.0l considered a luxury here. Because apart from local new car brands you can chose only new chinese car which are mostly 1.5T ore 2.0T on a larger vehicles. Also out government effectively banned anything large than 3.0 with a massive tax. And one of the recent is a massive new tax for anything more powerful that 160hp, effectively banning those too. For example you cant look at the pic here, it's a calculation done to import a 2008 Mitsubishi Pajero(Montero) with 3.8 engine and 250 hp
>>28974201>anything large than 3.0 with a massive tax>massive new tax for anything more powerful that 160hpwtf why? I didn't think Russians were environmentalist.
>>28973773I dont think you understand how poor Russians are.
>>28973750Mostly for tax reasons. Why they tax anything larger than 2 litres to fuck and back is a mystery, but italy for example is in the same basket.
>>28974375>wtf why? I didn't think Russians were environmentalist.This not a case this time. All of it is done to make foreign car companies establish local production of cars and car parts locally. And also to protect existing national brands. At least that's what we've been told.
>russia>make vehicles
>>28973754Hundreds of trillions. Also there wasn't a single drop of fuel produced since 2023 when Ukrainians destroyed it all with drone. The population starved as a result of mcdonalds pulling out in 2022 anyway.
>>28974115This. Basically everyone that isnt Arab tier lives in two cities near the West and what remains is sole of the most inhospitable environment on the planet with roads that either don't exist or haven't been "maintained" since the Tsar.Just watch some of the Russian truck driving videos. There's honestly 4x4 trails that resemble roads more than some of what they label as highway.
>>28974420Italy still produces decent size engines though. They built 6.5L v12
>>28975900Sure, yet your normie wageslave can only afford maybe a 2 litre fiat at best because taxes rape your shit in italy.
