GTP Cool Wall: 2013+ TAGAZ Aquila

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2013+ TAGAZ Aquila

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Azure Flare
And there you go again by saying that car that has a "tiny, gutless engine" is uncool because the engine is smaller (and has less "specific output") that your car.
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Apparently W&N hasnt figured out that the 20 y/o engine in his car isnt producing the advertised crank hp from factory spec and that this car is probably more powerful than his. Either that or he's never driven anything else and power to weight ratio is a term he doesnt understand... Calling every 4 cylinder other than his own gutless is laughable and says more about his ignorance than any engine's power.
 
Considering how much Russia has progressed in recent years, its amazing that they're still putting out crap like this. Surely they can get some oligarch's backing to sign a bunch of Italians and Germans to work for them, and produce something that can at least compete with Dacias and Chevrolets?

Uncool.
 
niky
But given the rest of the Tagaz line-up is made of three-generation out-of-date Ssangyongs (which the Russians keep referring to as Daewoos, strangely)
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No. They are called Tagaz Tager (SsangYong Korando) and Tagaz Road Partner (SsangYong Musso).
The rest of Tagaz line-up are Chinese cars (JAC and Chery).

Soda01
Considering how much Russia has progressed in recent years, its amazing that they're still putting out crap like this. Surely they can get some oligarch's backing to sign a bunch of Italians and Germans to work for them, and produce something that can at least compete with Dacias and Chevrolets?
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If you had seen Lada products, you'd give the Aquila a solid cool. :D
Well, one oligarch (Mikhail Prokhorov) tried something like that - the Yo-Mobile project, but it was closed recently.
Fomenko's project - Marussia B1, B2, F2 - resulted in a few cars built, but it seems like about to die, too.
Russia cannot into sports cars. :D
 
It's uncool because it tries to be cool and it just isn't. Being Russians gains a few points though. Russian cars alway have a special appeal
 
Rage Racer
No. They are called Tagaz Tager (SsangYong Korando) and Tagaz Road Partner (SsangYong Musso).
The rest of Tagaz line-up are Chinese cars (JAC and Chery).
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I was looking through the articles on Tagaz, and the name Daewoo kept coming up. Seems like Daewoo actually licensed Ssangyongs at one point. Which is about the second strangest car related thing I've learned today.

Which model is JAC? The sedan? The dropside looks like a Chery.
 
Rage Racer
If you had seen Lada products, you'd give the Aquila a solid cool. :D
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Trust me I know everything about Ladas, I was born in Russia and lived there for the first 10 years of my life.:lol:
I just find that older Russian cars like the Volgas, Moskvich's, and for me the VAZ-2103 especially have a certain appeal that I can't even describe.

The Aquila doesn't have that, it just looks like a very cheap and mediocre car built by a company that doesn't really know what its doing. I still wish them the best but this isn't what's going to resurrect the Russian car industry.
 
Notwithstanding anything else, it's hideous.

Reminds me a bit of the Pontiac Gran AM GT I ran as a rental car in Baltimore for 6 months back end of '99.
 
White & Nerdy
Engine: 97 ci ...
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Azure Flare
And there you go again by saying that car that has a "tiny, gutless engine" is uncool because the engine is smaller (and has less "specific output") that your car.
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To be fair this is a family car, if you load the car up with people and stuff the thing won't move with only 102 lb-ft.

It needs a bigger and more powerful engine considering the type of car it is.
 
@Wolfe
It's like displaying the old Fiat 500's engine displacement as 31 ci.

niky
Which model is JAC? The sedan? The dropside looks like a Chery.
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The SUV, Tagaz C190 aka JAC Rein, which is a restyled copy of the old Hyundai Santa Fe.
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Uncool.

It's Russian, not Soviet so it loses some cool points there. It's also rather generic looking despite actually trying to be something sporty. With that said though I do want to drive one just for the experience.
 
Aside from any other factors. How thick are those A-pillars? And how small are those rear side windows? That has to be one of the horrifically clostrophobic place to spend time. Especially in the back - and since it's so woefully underpowered, you're going to be spending a long time in the back.
 
Pagey279
To be fair this is a family car, if you load the car up with people and stuff the thing won't move with only 102 lb-ft.
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No amount of crank torque ever moved anyone anywhere. It's wheel torque you need - and with a 1st of 3:1 and a final of 4.5:1, you've got a peak of 1,377lbfft in first gear to get you moving.
 
Rage Racer
The SUV, Tagaz C190 aka JAC Rein, which is a restyled copy of the old Hyundai Santa Fe.
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I've really got to wheedle a proper test drive out of the local JAC distributor.

I'll be nice. I promise. :lol:
 
@Joey D ...
Russian, not soviet. :lol:

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Soviets are cool, not Russians though, not Russians at all.
 
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motortrend
I'll put it this way: If AutoArt and Maisto both made a model of this car it would look exactly the same.

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:lol:
Just take these windows as a special design feature. :D

@Kent
Why Soviet Union = Stalin's repressions?
To me, it's industry, engineering, science, aerospace technologies, cultural legacy, stability and military power.
 
The styling...well, when I say styling...there isn't any.
Awful. Seriously uncool.
 
Kent
@Joey D ...
Russian, not soviet. :lol:
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Political ideology aside, I'm taking more about Soviet stuff. There's whole badass mystique with Soviets and their heavy industrial influences in their designs are cool to me.
 
Meh from me, I actually quite like the styling in a "here is a budget sporty 4-seater" kind of way, and sure it's underpowered but like a few others here I would still like to drive/thrash one.

Extra undeserved points for the bizarro video Niky shared, and the Wikipedia description "This is a sedan car that has a tint of sporty thing in its design"
 

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