AMO ZiL, (Russian "Zavod imeni Likhachova"), or the Moscow Joint-Stock Company "Likhachov Plant", and more commonly referred to as ZiL (Russian: Завод имени Лихачёва (ЗиЛ)-Likhachov Vegetable, literally "Plant named for Likhachov") is often a major Russian automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer based in the city of Moscow, Russia. Zil has a heritage of exporting trucks to Cuba, a business resumed in the early 21st century. [1]ZiL has also produced armored cars for most Soviet leaders, as well as buses, armored fighting vehicles, and aerosani. The company also makes hand-built limousines and high-end high end sedans (автомобиль представительского класса, also translated as "luxury vehicle") in extremely low quantities, primarily for the ex- Soviet and current European government officials. ZiL passenger cars cost the equivalent of models by Maybach and Rolls-Royce, but are largely unknown outside the Commonwealth of Independent Says, and production now rarely exceeds 12 cars per year.
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The particular factory was founded within 1916 as Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo (AMO, Russian Автомобильное Московское Общество (АМО)-Moscow Vehicle Society). The plans were to provide Fiat F-15 1. 5 tonne trucks underneath licence. Because of the October Revolution and the subsequent Russian Civil Conflict it took until 1 November 1924 to provide the first vehicle, the AMO-F-15. In 1931 the factory was re-equipped and expanded by making use of the American A. J. Brandt Co., and changed its label to Automotive Factory Zero. 2 Zavod Imeni Stalina (ZIS or maybe ZiS). After Nikita Khrushchev denounced the actual cult of personality regarding Joseph Stalin in 1956, the name was improved again to Zavod imeni Likhachova, after its former director Ivan Alekseevich Likhachov.ZiL lanes-road lanes specialized in vehicles carrying top Soviet officials-were named after the car.
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The actual Zil-111 was a limousine created by the Soviet car manufacturer ZiL in 1958-1967. It was the primary post-war limousine designed within the Soviet Union. After tests with the shortlived prototype ZIL-Moscow inside 1956, [3] which gained a location in the Guinness Book of Records because the largest passenger car on earth, the ZIL-111 was unveiled from ZIL in 1958. The body style is at the American tradition of that time period and resembled the mid-1950s cars and trucks built by Packard, an American luxury vehicle manufacturer, although, apart from the graphic similarity, the car was a classic design and had nothing in accordance with them, except in general design. [4]: 33 The interiors were trimmed with the best quality leather and broadcloth and also decorated with thick pile carpet and polished timber fittings. It featured a comprehensive ventilation and furnace and a 5-band airwaves, all of which could possibly be controlled from the back, electric windows, vacuum-operated screen wash, windshield and front home window defrosting. [4]: 36 It was powered by way of 6. 0 L V8 serp producing 200 hp (SAE Gross) linked with an automatic transmission (just like that of Chrysler's PowerFlite and influenced by it, but different in design giving a top-notch speed of 170 km/h (106 mph), hydraulic drum brakes that has a vacuum servo booster, coil and wishbone IFS. The car won a high prize at the Brussels Expo Globe Fair in 1958.
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