The production of passenger cars has never been the strongest side of the domestic engineering industry. However, one should not think that in Soviet times, enterprises like VAZ had nothing else in their assortment except consumer "mattresses" with decrepit engines for a weekend trip to the country. When needed, Soviet enterprises could make fast and powerful cars. True, such a luxury was relied only on the power structures that stood up for the defense of the Fatherland.
Cars for law enforcement agencies and, first of all, state security agencies were produced not only at AvtoVAZ. The Gorky Automobile Plant has never lagged behind in this respect. Moreover, "catch-up" (and this is how the people called the KGB machines) in the USSR were developed and produced from the very beginning of industrialization and the emergence of its own mechanical engineering.
The greatest interest in cars of this kind in the leadership of power structures has already begun to show after World War II, when a cold war. First of all, "catch-up" was needed for internal consumption, they were used to spy on enemy intelligence officers operating in the country and ambassadorial representatives.
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A distinctive feature of all service vehicles of this kind on both sides of the ocean in a logical way lies in the fact that outwardly the car is not much different from a similar serial civil models. Moreover, the most popular and potentially nondescript models were always chosen for the role of "catch-ups" both in the USSR and in the USA. Of course, all the fun was under the body of such cars.
First of all, any "catch-up" has always differed from the production model with its engine and gearbox. Interestingly, the creation of such cars would most likely be impossible if it were not for the invention of a German engineer Felix Wankel, who back in the 1920s created the first rotary piston internal combustion engine with increased Efficiency. Subsequently, the Japanese Mazda brand achieved great success in the development of this technology. However, Soviet intelligence was on the alert. Back in the 1960s, several luxury Japanese cars with RPDs were delivered to the Union. The machines were studied and as a result, in the early 1970s, Soviet industry created its own single-section unit. And although the first pancake turned out to be lumpy, the engine was finalized and by the end of the 1970s, all KGB cars were flaunting the most advanced power units at that time.
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