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The sales literature for the Moskvitch van boasted that it was “as luxurious as the saloon and estate”, but in reality this meant windscreen washers, sun visors, a 22-piece toolkit (which presumably got lots of use) and “direction indicator lights”. Although it was reasonably quick, the claimed 90mph wasn’t recommended, because it stopped like a cat on a wet kitchen floor! In short, the Moskvitch van is best forgotten, which is easy to do because there are absolutely none left on the road.
It’s the same story with the Romanian-built Dacia pickup, which has followed the dodo into extinction.
Keeping with the Eastern European theme, do you remember the FSO 125P pickup truck? In the mid-90s there were 2,000 of them on the road, but today there are only six.