The Humpbacked Zaporozhets: ZAZ's Air-Cooled Legacy, 1960–1994
From the rounded ZAZ-965 to the final ZAZ-968M, Ukraine's ZAZ built millions of rear-engined, air-cooled Zaporozhets — a Soviet Beetle with its own engineering soul. Here is the…
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Oct 28, 2026
From the rounded ZAZ-965 to the final ZAZ-968M, Ukraine's ZAZ built millions of rear-engined, air-cooled Zaporozhets — a Soviet Beetle with its own engineering soul. Here is the…