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AMO ZiL, (Russian "Zavod imeni Likhachova"), or the Moscow Joint-Stock Company "Likhachov Plant", and more commonly known as ZiL (Russian: Завод имени Лихачёва (ЗиЛ)-Likhachov Place, literally "Plant named for Likhachov") is usually a major Russian automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer situated in the city of Moscow, Russia. Zil has a history of exporting trucks to be able to Cuba, a business resumed in the early 21st century. [1]ZiL has also produced armored cars for many Soviet leaders, as well as buses, armored fighting vehicles, and aerosani. The company also yields hand-built limousines and high-end extravagance sedans (автомобиль представительского класса, also translated as "luxury vehicle") within extremely low quantities, primarily for the previous Soviet and current Russian government officials. ZiL passenger cars will set you back the equivalent of designs by Maybach and Rolls-Royce, but are largely unknown beyond your Commonwealth of Independent States, and production now rarely exceeds twelve cars per year.

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Your factory was founded within 1916 as Avtomobilnoe Moskovskoe Obshchestvo (AMO, Russian Автомобильное Московское Общество (АМО)-Moscow Motor vehicle Society). The plans were to produce 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 produce 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 identify to Automotive Factory Absolutely no. 2 Zavod Imeni Stalina (ZIS or perhaps ZiS). After Nikita Khrushchev denounced your cult of personality regarding Joseph Stalin in 1956, the name was improved again to Zavod imeni Likhachova, after its former home Ivan Alekseevich Likhachov.ZiL lanes-road lanes committed to vehicles carrying top Soviet officials-were named following car.

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Your Zil-111 was a limousine manufactured by the Soviet car supplier ZiL in 1958-1967. It was the very first post-war limousine designed inside Soviet Union. After tests with the actual shortlived prototype ZIL-Moscow with 1956, [3] which gained the place in the Guinness Book of Records for the reason that largest passenger car on this planet, the ZIL-111 was unveiled from ZIL in 1958. The body style is at the American tradition of the time and resembled the mid-1950s automobiles built by Packard, an American luxury vehicle manufacturer, although, apart from the visible similarity, the car was an authentic design and had nothing in keeping with them, except in general layout. [4]: 33 The interiors were trimmed with high quality leather and broadcloth along with decorated with thick pile carpet and polished solid wood fittings. It featured a comprehensive ventilation and heat and a 5-band radio, all of which may very well be controlled from the backside, electric windows, vacuum-operated screen wash, windshield and front door window defrosting. [4]: 36 It was powered by the 6. 0 L V8 serps producing 200 hp (SAE Gross) connected to an automatic transmission (just like that of Chrysler's PowerFlite and influenced because of it, but different in design giving a premier speed of 170 km/h (106 mph), hydraulic drum brakes with a vacuum servo booster, coil and wishbone IFS. The car won a top prize at the Brussels Expo Planet Fair in 1958.

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