Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi

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Wed 26 Jan 2005 21:39
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - dodo
Just finished watching the Bourne Supremacy. Xcellent. What make is the indestructible Russian taxi?
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Wed 26 Jan 2005 21:44
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - Wales Forester
It's a Russian made GAZ 3110. God I need to get out more!

PP
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Wed 26 Jan 2005 21:50
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - mare
It's a Russian made GAZ 3110. God I need to get
out more!
PP


Also known as a Volga, as in the river.

Been made for years, since the 1970's. Sort of Granada size. When the USSR was still in business, the police used them too.
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Wed 26 Jan 2005 21:45
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - frostbite
You might find your answer on www.imdb.com
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Wed 26 Jan 2005 21:52
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - DavidHM
Not seen the film, but is this what you're talking about?

www.autonavigator.ru/autowallpapers/images/gaz-311...g

And surely they can't be Morris Marina door handles?
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Wed 26 Jan 2005 22:03
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - Pete M
From the picture above, there's something rather Fiat 1500 about the centre part. Is it related to a Lada in any way? Certainly longer front and rear sections are evident.

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Thu 27 Jan 2005 00:06
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - PhilW
Change the badge and Rover have a replacement for the 75 when the time comes!
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Thu 27 Jan 2005 07:11
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - Adam {P}
and if you debadge the boot you have the new MG ZT!
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Adam
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Thu 27 Jan 2005 08:26
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - Garethj
General Ourmov used a black one in the James Bond film Goldeneye when 007 was chasing him in the tank!
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Thu 27 Jan 2005 08:45
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - patently
Change the badge and Rover have a replacement for the 75
when the time comes!



Please, Rover. The time has come. Please.
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Thu 27 Jan 2005 11:07
Bourne Supremacy - Russian taxi - THe Growler
In the mid-1960's these were imported into Britain (sharks'-teeth grill in those days). There was at least one of the Worthing Station taxi rank for a long time.

I would imagine they were pretty indestructible: there are plenty still running around in Afghanistan.

In 1969 my then partner and I travelled via the Trans-Siberian Railways from Khabarovsk in the east through Siberia, on to Moscow and Leningrad and out through Finland. Imagine a 3-week tour for the equivalent of 65 pounds then. Magnificent trains, accurate to within seconds. All tourists had to specify their precise itinerary and be prepared to followed and their activities logged by the KGB. Thus everywhere we stopped in cities we had minders, invariably in a Volga. This was the Russian autumn and already very very cold indeed. The Volgas all had magnificent heaters in them and I remember thinking how advanced they were compared with the puny efforts at comfort of the average British car. The cars came with monster toolkits and the driver had to be able to fix stuff miles from anywhere.
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