Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive saloons and estates with solid rear axles suspended by leaf springs.

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In the late 1970s Moskvitch bought about two dozen compact cars built by different manufacturers, and thoroughly tested them.

Beginning in 1939, the factory's passenger cars were sold under the Moskvitch (" Muscovite ") brand.

Following privatization in 1991, AZLK adopted Moskvitch as its corporate name, as it had already been used on all of the company's cars dating to 1939.

The IZh automobiles were copies of Moskvitch models 412 and later AZLK-2138 and 2140, until the IZh-2126 Oda.

Aleko was a huge improvement over previous Moskvitch models, which were dependable but old-fashioned saloons and station wagons ( estates ) with rear-wheel drive and a solid rear axle.

Some of the last Moskvitch models to be built were the somewhat upgraded Aleko which was renamed to Svjatogor ( models M-214122, M-214100, M-214145 ) and the M-2142, Dolgorukij, ( 1997 – 2002 ), were also based on the design of M-2141.

The Moskvitch 2141, commonly referred to as simply Aleko ( Russian: " АЛЕКО ", derivative from factory name " Автомобильный завод имени Ленинского Комсомола ", Aftomobilnyi zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola, meaning " Automotive Factory of Lenin's Komsomol "), is a Russian small class, third group hatchback car that was first announced in 1985 and sold in the Soviet Union and its successor states between 1986 and 2000 ( gradually replaced in 2001 by its sedan body version, Moskvitch 2142, which never was produced in large quantities and which worldwide sales wasn't even started ) by the now bankrupt Moskvitch Stock Company, based in Moscow, Russia.

The morale of the staff had been damaged, and Aleko never became a beloved project among Moskvitch engineers ( testimony by the Chief Designer of the Moskvitch Stock Company at the time, Igor Zaitsev.

From 1948 the prewar Kadett was manufactured as the Moskvitch 400 / 420: it continued to be produced on the edge of Moscow as a Moskvitch until 1956.

Just a year later a new Soviet car, the Moskvitch 400, rolled off a Moscow assembly line.

Not until 1959 was a Moskvitch model introduced that bore no trace of Opel engineering.

Moskvitch () ( sometimes also written as Moskvich, Moskvič or Moskwitsch ) was an automobile brand from Russia produced by AZLK from 1945 to 1991 and by OAO Moskvitch from 1991 to 2002.

OAO Moskvitch was a privatized venture name given to the former factory in order to avoid legal issues after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

A factory called MZMA ( Moskovsky Zavod Malolitrazhnykh Avtomobiley, that is, Moscow Compact Car Factory ) started in 1947 to manufacture an automobile called Moskvitch 400 based on the Opel Kadett.

The Moskvitch failed to get type approval in the UK.

The Moskvitch was also produced in Bulgaria ( see Moskvitch ( Bulgaria )) between 1966 and 1990 on the basis of complete knock down ( CKD ) kits.

The body was built on the basis of Simca 1307, while longitudinal engine placement and torsion-crank rear suspension and McPherson strut front suspension was inspired by Audi 80 / 100 family, while taking into account the larger size of the Moskvitch and Lada engines.

The factory, which had been renamed to OAO Moskvitch ( Moskvitch Joint Stock Company ) in the early 1990s, filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and ceased production.

The presence of Avtoframos brought new life to a small part of the facility, but the majority of the sprawling plant remains abandoned, apparently still owned by the dormant Moskvitch company.

The bankruptcy of OAO Moskvitch was officially announced in 2006 and the company was liquidated the following year.

Image: Eastern European car, unknown model, seen in Sofia, Bulgaria September 2005. jpg | Moskvitch 2140

Image: Moskvitch 400. jpg | Moskvitch 400

Image: Moskvitch. jpg | Moskvitch 400

Image: Moskvitch 4-Door Sedan. jpg | Moskvitch 4-Door Sedan

Image: Moskwitsch 403. jpg | Moskvitch 403

Image: Moskvitch 427. jpg | 1972 Moskvitch 427 estate ( this year of this export model sold as a Moskvitch 1500 )

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.

In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.

In a way, we may be witnessing the same thing in the sales of automobiles today as the public no longer is willing to purchase any car coming on the market but is more insistent on compact cars free of the frills which were accepted in the Fifties.

A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.

In seconds all four cars were out of sight.

When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.

Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.

Both cars were slightly damaged.

This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.

Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the service station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and couldn't get one because there were cars on the pits waiting to be repaired.

Their cars weren't small enough, they didn't have the power, they were old-fashioned.

The official winners were Peugeot and Panhard as cars were judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.

Armoured cars were put into use by the British on the Western Front.

The first AFVs were armoured cars, dating back virtually to the invention of the motor car.

Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.