From Russia with Love: GAZ Tiger-2 debuts at Moscow Motor Show
Gregory from CarDesign.ru tipped us off that Russian automaker GAZ unveiled a preproduction version of its Tiger-2 SUV at the Moscow Motor Show recently. The Tiger-2 looks very HUMMER-esque in profile, but has a face only a Russian drunk on vodka could love. And, are those... plastic wheel covers? The tigger is powered by a 190-hp diesel motor, which can actually get this mountain going 100 mph, but no more. The interior resembles the original HUMMER H1 with its obnoxiously wide central tunnel, but passengers will supposedly be treated to a smooth ride and plenty of comfort and convenience features.
With all the talk about when the Chinese will be flooding the U.S. market with inexpensive vehicles, one wonders if Russia's economy will ever be able to support the global aspirations of a native automaker like GAZ. Kinda makes you go... hmmm.
(More pictures after the jump)
[Source: CarDesign.ru]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
DPC car videos 8:10PM (9/08/2006)
Looks like a Hummer H2 with a different front end.
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Cole 8:53PM (9/08/2006)
crap.
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Freddy 9:26PM (9/08/2006)
This is what you get when two cousins ahve kids.(Hummer and Jeep)
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Mustang 9:51PM (9/08/2006)
Are those hub caps?
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Justin 10:21PM (9/08/2006)
first word that comes to mind: Tonka
and yes, those are hubcaps. I'm also spotting a removable faceplate stereo and more gray than martha stewart's natural hair color.
This thing is gonna be crap. As if we needed another monstrosity like the hummer.
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Stoneman 10:16PM (9/08/2006)
Total garbage.
Stoneman
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DAN SMITH 12:04PM (3/02/2007)
HUMMER, LOOK OUT:
JUST WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK THAT YOU'RE LIVING WAY OUT THERE ON THE CUTTING EDGE, THOSE DAMNED DESIGNERS AT GAZ JUMP OUT OF THEIR GULAG WITH A DEAD RINGER FOR THE HUMMER H3. IT'S CALLED THE GAZ TIGER-II, AND IT'S CURRENTLY MAKING ITS DEBUT AT THE MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW. KEEP THIS IN MIND, THOUGH. FROM THAT PARTICULAR LOCATION, AT LEAST AS FAR AS THE ONBOARD GPS SYSTEM IS CONCERNED, THE SHORTEST DISTANCE HOME, IS THROUGH JAPAN. NOW, I'M NOT SURE THAT I'M QUITE READY TO SIGN UP FOR A FRANCHISE JUST YET, BUT THE "OFFICIAL" HUMMER BRAND ISN'T EXACTLY KNOWN FOR ITS CLASS LEADING REFINEMENT, NOISE ISOLATION, FUEL MILEAGE OR TONED DOWN CHARACTER. SO, WHEN YOU REALLY GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS..., ISN'T THE FACT THAT THE GAZ PRODUCT IS NOISIER, LESS COMFORTABLE, HAS MORE ROUGH EDGES AND LEAKS OIL..., A GOOD THING? SURE, GO AHEAD AND LAUGH. BUT GAS PRICES ARE RETURNING TO PRE-CRISIS LEVELS, AND DON'T EXPECT THEM TO STOP THERE. AND IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SOMEONE LIKE PLUCKY MALCOLM BRICKLIN WILL STEP UP, THROW DOWN SOME SERIOUS DOUGH, AND MAKE AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE SELLING GAZES FOR ABOUT $8,000.00 LESS THAN THE COMPARABLE HUMMER. AFTER ALL; GAZES AND HUMMERS ARE ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE.
I'M DAN SMITH
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Matt W. 11:06PM (9/08/2006)
Wow, that looks like the unlicensed Hummer replicas that appear in video games like Grand Theft Auto.
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Jeff Banks 11:18PM (9/08/2006)
This is a faily historical company building this car (it was nationally owned for most of modern Russia's history) and was originally named ZIL and later changed to ZIS (the 'S' at the end stood for Stalin) and for most of their history basically created rip-off designs of American cars, but some were actually very luxurious and beautiful. Unfortunately, nobody in post-war Russia could afford them, and many of them ended up as ambulances (check out the ZIS 110).
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Vctor Rubiera 12:23AM (9/09/2006)
Quite frankly it is a very nice vehicle, I would like to see how it performs.
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nailz420 12:39AM (9/09/2006)
BUAHAHAHAH!@#9
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Juan 1:30AM (9/09/2006)
Looks like a Jeep Commander with the JC Whitney treatment.
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Yakov Smirnov 1:32AM (9/09/2006)
In Russia, sport utility vehicle drives you!
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Andrew 1:50AM (9/09/2006)
wow this is a piece of sh#t. with marvels like this it's hard to imagine how Russia (USSR) lost the Cold War.
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Js 9:21AM (9/09/2006)
Ok so it looks like a hummer rip-off and it may have hubs... but thats now reason to run up and diss the entire country.... How many american cars aren't rip offs of european cars in some way, shape, or form ?
@Andrew making an arrogant statement like that only demonstrates your lack of knowledge about the Cold War and global political events of the time... Remember, NASA needs help from Russia to build a space station...so I wouldn't get too cocky..
As for the car... I'd love to have one... I mean, it will probably not cost nearly as much as a Hummer and that means that I would defenitly take it for some major offroad abuse....wether it comes back alive afterwards is another discussion, but it will finally be something people actually dare to use offroad, unlike the Hummer and Porsche Cayenne...
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HP 6:28AM (9/09/2006)
Beautifully. By something alike on hammer!
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Gregory 6:47AM (9/09/2006)
It is the REAL offroader. On offroad it is better, than Hummer H2.For example, it overcomes ford up to 80 centimeters (In comparison with 50 at Hummer H2). Actually, such machines in Russia think out is better.
The prospective price in Russia - 50-60k$.
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PiCASSO 7:25AM (9/09/2006)
I think it's a decent effort. I do like the door sheetmetal treatment that surrounds the windows.
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Albert 11:31AM (9/09/2006)
Very nice and original, I dig the center console especially. It has that weird Russian crazy machine look.
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Ryan 1:10PM (9/09/2006)
It's weird, even though I know NOTHING about Russia's domestic cars I alwyas think of them as solid as a rock, kind of like Germany.
Really the truck looks like they MADE it to do nothing but offroad, which is something we have lost in SUV's here in the states. In other words they have put "utility" back into SUV
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