Check Out the Crimea (Krym) Roadster Made by Russian Students

As the story goes, this machine was made by students from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The rolling prototype was presented in October 2015, but now that it's ready, the vehicle was even checked out by the governor of Sevastopol, Sergei Menyailo.

You know us, whenever we see such a project, we want to see what it's made of. The first thing we noticed is that the mirrors were taken directly from a new Lada model, probably the Vesta.

They say that the Crimea roadster is based on a space frame welded of rectangular tubes. The general proportions are similar to a Miata, but we are assured that the engine is a Lada 1.6-liter gasoline unit making 106 horsepower.

The project was put together over several years with funding coming in from third-party backers. The university wants to attract investors and put it into low-level production.

According to Dmitry Onishchenko, the head of the Crimea project, a basic version would cost somewhere in the region of 650,000 to 700,000 rubles. As far as we can remember, that about as much as a Sandero. If you want to be all European about it, we are dealing with the equivalent of €9,150 to €9,850. You can't buy a Miata in Russia, but if you could, it would cost at least twice that much.

"We made it entirely from Russian components. The basis of this car is the basis of the Lada Granta, the most common automobile in Russia. This is made in order to cheapen it to the maximum level and unify it with this family of cars, and, in the case of low-volume output, to make the car cost-effective from the point of view of both its purchase and operation," says Professor Dmitri Onishchenko in the video you can find below.