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No Winter Tires? No Worries! Just Glue Sand Over the Summer Ones, Say Russian Mechanics
No Winter Tires? No Worries! Just Glue Sand Over the Summer Ones, Say Russian Mechanics

3 Feb 2024, 19:41 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Garage 54 YouTube vloggers from Siberia put an old idea to a real-world applicability test and applied fine-grain sand to treated summer rubber compound

 
Soviet Ice Drifting: 30-Speed Lada With Two Gearboxes and a Honda Motorbike Engine
Soviet Ice Drifting: 30-Speed Lada With Two Gearboxes and a Honda Motorbike Engine

24 Jan 2024, 21:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Garage 54 mechanics built a snow-drift car from a Soviet sedan, a Honda CBR engine with a six-speed box, and a secondary five-speed transmission

 
This Ugly Russian Space Shoe Could Have Stolen America's Thunder
This Ugly Russian Space Shoe Could Have Stolen America's Thunder

15 Jan 2024, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animated video briefly brings back one of the glorious projects of 1960s Russia, the MiG-105 spaceplane that would have competed with the Space Shuttle

 
Watch a Russian Four-Cylinder Engine With 18-Lb Lead Pistons Slap Itself to Death
Watch a Russian Four-Cylinder Engine With 18-Lb Lead Pistons Slap Itself to Death

14 Jan 2024, 00:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian vloggers machine pistons out of lead weighing five times more than regular aluminum ones; engine massacre is swift as physics takes a heavy toll

 
Russian Motor Hack 101: Frozen Solid Engine? Just Cook the Oil With an Induction Stove
Russian Motor Hack 101: Frozen Solid Engine? Just Cook the Oil With an Induction Stove

3 Jan 2024, 21:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When the going gets stuck by Siberian winter freeze, who you’re gonna call to heat things up? Garage 54 wrench hobbits, of course!

 
1971 Buick Centurion Shows Battle Scars and Rarity Marks After 30 Years of Barn Oblivion
1971 Buick Centurion Shows Battle Scars and Rarity Marks After 30 Years of Barn Oblivion

31 Dec 2023, 01:48 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Built between 1971 and 1973, the Centurion offered three body styles, and the first-year convertibles are the rarest of them all, with less than 2,200 built

 
NASA and Roscosmos Put Ukraine Aside, Agree to Cooperate On ISS Until 2025
NASA and Roscosmos Put Ukraine Aside, Agree to Cooperate On ISS Until 2025

28 Dec 2023, 17:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In a report first dropped by Reuters and corroborated by The Moscow Times, a tentative agreement between Roscosmos and NASA will collab on ISS for now.

 
Saved From a Wrecking Yard After 40 Years, This 1968 Charger Is Looking for a New Home
Saved From a Wrecking Yard After 40 Years, This 1968 Charger Is Looking for a New Home

26 Dec 2023, 22:05 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1968 was the defining moment for the legendary nameplate from Dodge, after the two-year first-generation Charger failed to break the bank

 
Russian Christmas Spirit Is DUI: Siberians Drink and Drive To Prove Why We Shouldn't
Russian Christmas Spirit Is DUI: Siberians Drink and Drive To Prove Why We Shouldn't

26 Dec 2023, 20:09 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A bunch of YouTubers from Siberia set out to test what driving under the influence does to one’s ability to maneuver a vehicle; the experiment was successful

 
Direct-Power-Steering Crank-Bolted Wheel Is the Most Russian Idea of the Week
Direct-Power-Steering Crank-Bolted Wheel Is the Most Russian Idea of the Week

21 Dec 2023, 16:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s the minimum amount of engine power to drive a crankshaft-driven wheel with enough force to spin a car around? No one cares, but Russians test it

 
Russia's First Electric Car Is a "Tesla Killer" Yet Looks So Much Like a Washing Machine
Russia's First Electric Car Is a "Tesla Killer" Yet Looks So Much Like a Washing Machine

20 Dec 2023, 17:01 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / The Avtotor Amber is going to be Russia's first electric car. The Moscow Polytechnic University representatives call it a "Tesla killer"

 
Hyundai Is Taking a Major Loss, Sells Its Plant in Russia for $111
Hyundai Is Taking a Major Loss, Sells Its Plant in Russia for $111

20 Dec 2023, 15:28 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / Hyundai is taking a major financial blow having to sell its plant in Russia for little over $100. The production center has not been active for almost two years

 
Flat-Head Wolverine: 1935 International C-30 Truck Last Ran in '52, Now Comes Back to Life
Flat-Head Wolverine: 1935 International C-30 Truck Last Ran in '52, Now Comes Back to Life

18 Dec 2023, 21:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Abandoned for 71 years, this 1.5-ton truck built in the wake of the Great Depression is anything but depressing, despite its rugged looks and seized motor

 
Armchair Engineering (Russia Edition): DIY Canned-Polyurethane Engine Pistons Are Smokin'
Armchair Engineering (Russia Edition): DIY Canned-Polyurethane Engine Pistons Are Smokin'

17 Dec 2023, 14:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / YouTube vloggers from Novosibirsk fabricate a set of polymeric pistons for an internal combustion engine; what a surprise - it doesn’t run

 
Potholes, Mud, Gravel Roads, and Logic: 20" Ground Clearance Siberian Sedan Defies All
Potholes, Mud, Gravel Roads, and Logic: 20" Ground Clearance Siberian Sedan Defies All

10 Dec 2023, 20:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian engineering knows no limits (good or bad) when it comes to getting over obstacles on the glorious path to automotive supremacy

 
2024 Lada Niva Is Finally Getting ABS, but It Doesn't Even Have Airbags
2024 Lada Niva Is Finally Getting ABS, but It Doesn't Even Have Airbags

4 Dec 2023, 12:13 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / The Lada Niva is the car that never had airbags on board. No ESP, no automatic transmission either. Now, it is finally getting the ABS

 
Beat This, NASA! Russians Take 'Floating Axle' Literally, Put Tensegrity Rear End on Car
Beat This, NASA! Russians Take 'Floating Axle' Literally, Put Tensegrity Rear End on Car

3 Dec 2023, 16:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A team of mechanics and YouTubers from Siberia replace a car’s rear suspension system with a tensegrity assembly, and it works just fine

 
Myasishchev M-55: A Retired High-Altitude Soviet Spy Plane That Might Make a Comeback
Myasishchev M-55: A Retired High-Altitude Soviet Spy Plane That Might Make a Comeback

1 Dec 2023, 03:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the low-down on the mysterious Myasishchev M-55, the distinctly Soviet answer to a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft.

 
Kharkiv V-2: The Soviet Tank Engine That Refused to Go Out of Style for Eight Decades
Kharkiv V-2: The Soviet Tank Engine That Refused to Go Out of Style for Eight Decades

29 Nov 2023, 22:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Kharkiv V-2, the Russian V12 diesel tank engine that stuck around past World War II, the Cold War, and even into the 21st century.

 
M1A1 Abrams Tanks Spotted Near Ukranian Front Lines, Is the Jig Up For Russia?
M1A1 Abrams Tanks Spotted Near Ukranian Front Lines, Is the Jig Up For Russia?

28 Nov 2023, 21:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The road that led to M1 Abrams tanks arriving in Ukraine is one paved in perpetual controversy and explosive U.S. Congressional politics.