Dmub rushians. The chinese are smart enought to simply copy the cars and not pay a thing.

at least itll hold up in a crash

whats with the ancient grille…

look at all these poor saps staring at it like its something amazing –

little to they know that when this car made its debut in 01 that it was already outdated by about 6 years!

One small change: molotov ****tail holders in the back seats

when i think of Russian cars, i think of those black cars you see in James Bond movies or in that movie Firefox with Eastwood….what has Russian every produced that was good? the AK47? gee thanks for that.
and oh thanks for the vodka…no seriously, thanks.

I liked the Sebring. I hope it does well in Russia. But will it be sturdy enough to stand up to Russian roads? What are the suspension mods?

sik59rt,
for your info since 1999 American space vehicles are launched powered by RUSSIAN rocket engines. Russians were first to send a satellite into space (Sputnik), first to send a human into Earth orbit (A. Gagarin). Russian tanks T-90S are very good too. And, yes, their Auto industry is long way behind, but that’s because it was state owned and never got enough funding for development, not because Russians are stupid

okay, ill give you Sputnik and the disaster they called a space agency. the only reason we are using them to launch is because they build cheap ****.
and btw, what good has sending people to space done for us?
and that T-90 is a basically a modified T-72….and we should thank them for that because it gives our boys in arms target practice!

kind of seems like a car that you would hijack in grand theft auto III

And the funny thing is that I actually like this car more than the current Chrysler Sebring

A4: damn right. Not a bad-looking car, and certainly MUCH better than anything that ever came out of china.

RicardoHead—if you’re going to call the Russians dumb, you really should spell “dumb” and “Russian” correctly; it would improve your credibility heaps.

And boy am I glad I’m not a Russian. That thing is seriously ugly! I wonder if the Russians thought our Sebring was ugly?

Commodore: yes, this is so much better looking than the abortion called the new sebring.

This is obviously the most reliable, safest, best-designed, & cleanest Russian-branded car ever. The Volgas, Nivas, Okas, & Ladas of Russia are screwed. And the Moskvich is already dead. If you have seen what sorry junkboxes on wheels Russian cars are, you know what I’m talking about.

You’re right TOZO…kind of like Chinese cars today, but the Russian ones NEVER die. They go on forever, even if you drive them on a tundra or something

not too bad looking… you can totally tell it’s a sebring/stratus from simply looking at the doors though. outdated, but probably better than what the average russian is used to.

and i’d take it over the current sebring’s styling as well.

Looks like that Audi lower on the front page.

Could the Germans and Russians be working TOGETHER ???

Bimmer,

The Russian auto industry is no longer “state owned”. It is owned by former KGB officers who own the current state. And because Russian allowed for 75 years commies to rule them and after commies selected KGB colonel to lead them back to communism, they do deserve their auto industry to be owned by state. The people get government they deserve and YES Russian people are stupid because government owns some or all of their industries (or former KGB mafia that owns the government). They may be creative and can build a rocket, but as a society they are extremely stupid and drunk.

sik59rt…

So we’re buying rockets from them because they can build them cheaper? I mean, we’re talking about rockets that can power a small city for a year here…
I’m sure they can get them cheaper, but you’d have to be ignorant to cite that cause alone.

Well Autonut, if you live in the United States, seriously, your pretty stupid if your citing Russia but not our own country. There’s some pretty rancid things going on in the States too, like we no longer have the right to protest against the war, and gun controls still trying to be pushed through congress. I guess that makes you pretty stupid too!

The Russian automarket is screwed. Even to this day, I love the Sebring design, it’s too bad the most recent one is pretty terrible. I haven’t personally sat in a Russian car, but I’ve seen a few recent ones in person, and this will blow them away.

I was going to ask how there can be competition in a market when every company in the industry produces identical products but then I realized that Ruskies don’t have competition. They don’t have a capitalist economy.

wow that is ****ing ugly….serioulsy i didnt think that design could get any worse but leave up to the Russians to take an ugly car to all new ugly ass heights!!

so Mr Rocket scientist, what other reason do you think America is buying products from other countries? To support THEIR economy?? EVERYTHING in this country is getting sent over to India, Malaysia and every other third world country to get manufactured because its cheap and we dont care if 10 workers die a year.
and since when does protesting the war have to do with ANYTHING i said?????? and last time i checked, free speech ISNT illegal in my damn country!
why are you bringing up protesting wars or gun control being pushed through congress have to do with ANY ****ing thing?!?!?!
EVERYTHING you said had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING i or anyone else said, so shut up you damn commie!

Dmub rushians. The chinese are smart enought to simply copy the cars and not pay a thing.

Comment by RicardoHead, posted on August30 at 3:14 pm
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oh damn that friggin made me laugh a good one, hahahahah

wtf did sik59rt say to deserve this backlash, guess what asspackers the wonderful russian tech was probably stolen from the u.s. during the cold war anyways so wtf does that have to do with this crappy car? jeeeeeez. at this point everything was done in absolute secrecy while they were spying on each other so who really know who`s tech is who`s.
anyways sik59rt at least our parents were able to go buy bread without a voucher and a long line.
but i am glad russians can feed themselves nowadays, i dont know what freedom they have left under putin but be careful what you say about him the kgb still kills.

i think he’s just sad that the wall came down back in ‘89.

How many russian brides can they fit in there? Maybe they should remake the Pacifica

Wow man, cool it down sik59rt. I’m saying we’re buying rockets from them NOT because they can build it cheaper, but they have more experience, they have the materials and capabilities to do so, and yes, I’m sure they are cheaper, but we’re not buying it from them because they can build “cheap ****”.

It’s too bad that stuff is being sent overseas to be built, but these rockets have nothing to do with “cheap labor”

Unless you and Autonut are the same people, it wasn’t even directed to you sik59rt. That’s ok with me, keep arguing, but my statement wasn’t made to be offensive.

When Autonut mentioned “the people get government they deserve”, the first thing that popped in my head was “Patriot Act!” and this new Executive Order that says we don’t have the right to protest against the Iraq war. It has not to do with the car, but the industry itself and Autonuts statement.

But anyways, I still think the Sebring is a good looking car, but it seems they didn’t get the design right with the new generation. I wish they had kept with the long, low looking design language, like the Sebring, which actually has a design language of it’s own.

how do they have more experience? i believe we’ve been in the space chase just as long as they have…maybe they have a few years on us, but why else would we send stuff to Russia to put into orbit? because its CHEAP.
The U.S. has plenty of small and large rockets to send objects in low or high earth orbit.
The Delta 4, Atlas 5, Falcon, Pegasus….but see the Pegasus cost more than $25mil to launch and thats a small rocket w/ low payload. A Delta 4 can lift a lot more but cost significantly more than a Pegasus rocket.
Israel, Germany,Saudi Arabia, the US, Canada, Japan, and hell even DirectTV uses Russian technology because it economically fesiable
Thank god for companies like ILS that are thankfully American and can keep the space launch industry in American hands.

Is it just me, or there are some traces of the Peugeot 407 saloon in the design of the rear?

Yes, sik59rt, the USA currently has the same, if not more capabilities than the Russians. But just to let you know, the Atlast 5 and the Falcon’s design are actually Russian. The Russians have the experience to make both economically feasible rockets and effective ones, the reason for using the rockets are both, but the major reason being Russian rockets have more capabilities, capacity and a less costly design than alternatives, but once again, not because of cheap labor but because of the effectiveness of the parts, brought on by experience.

will it use alot of gaz?

ok lets end the rocket argument with germany did it all and america and russia stole/pilfered verner von brauns ideas, we stole him while we were at it too.
dont forgrt the germans launched the v2 rockets out of the atmosphere for some time before the germans lost the war.