Cars Made In The Eastern Bloc

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Zaz Zaporozhets. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images via Getty Images) /

ZAZ Zaporozhets (1958-1994)

You know, the name just rolls off the tongue…ZAZ.

A people’s car that was easy to fix, affordable and pretty durable. It featured the rarely used V4 engine, 746cc and bumped up to 887cc in later editions, that was placed in the back and Zaporozhets were only available as coupes.

Ultimately 3.4 million were made by ZAZ and a 965A made an appearance in the 007 flick “Goldeneye”.

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