Meanwhile, Hyundai decides to sell their St. Petersburg factory for … $100.
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First thought: That car was designed to have a distinct face (functionality be damned!). Second thought: As a character in one of those cartoons with anthropomorphic vehicles, that would be the one with severe learning difficulties. (In fact, the more I think about it, the more I’m sure a vehicle/robot character of that sort - with this face - already exists, but I can’t place it.)
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It looks like it saw the Ukranian Social EV across the intersection and peed itself.
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It is good that more electric cars are being built, but…
Oh, I just can’t go any further. That is an ugly, weird car. It make the Pontiac Aztec look cool. The only justification I can see is that it does kinda look like a 22nd century Trabant.
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It looks like the prototype melted in the fire after an ukrainian dronestrike hit the factory.
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Where I live we have roads.
[puts on panto costume] Oh no it isn’t!
Besides, what do I care. I’m sitting in the car, looking out.
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Yes, it’s ugly, but this is not even a prototype. It’s a test model with a cobbled-together body made to test the functions inside. The body design hasn’t been finalized. You have to wonder why Moscow Polytechnic released the pictures at all, when they could have just shown the inner workings. They were apparently surprised that people reacted to the pictures.
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In other words, the plumage doesn’t enter into it?
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Ha! It sure does, and the release of these pictures was a terrible mistake. But there seem to be no PR people at Polytechnic. The only folks who wouldn’t have seen this coming are a bunch of hyper-focused engineers.
Look what the Ukrainians are saying about it.
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It looks like a slightly shocked mandrill monkey.
On the upside, so many fewer windows for people to fall out of.
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If they had simply built a “mule” using an existing car, as car designers usually do to test new drive trains, it wouldn’t have gone viral as an opportunity to laugh at Russia.
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Soviet Union? Since when has Russia reverted to calling itself the Soviet Union? This is most definitely a spoof
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I’m fairly sure this is yet another Russian propaganda op, where they announce some advanced hi-tech product or development, meant to show the world that Russia can keep up with the West and surpass them, that will then never pan out because a) it was 100% a scam from the start, or b) the pervasive corruption that has rotted the Russian economy and industry through and through kills the project long before it could be realized.
(The engineers at Moscow Polytechnic probably are sincere with this, but the people who ordered them to release the whole thing almost certainly aren’t.)
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Designed in anticipation of Russia not having so much ground in the near future?
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Redundancy. I like that.
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I dunno, I’m not having a “point and laugh” reaction.
I find the vehicle unusual looking, but (because of that) interesting.
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The copy in the post is written by the boinger who posted it as a joke, which is not really stated as such anywhere.
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