Video: Watch the “sheep cyclone” encircle a car

Filed under: Videos, Humor

The beige blurs in the still above are sheep, and they’re apparently very excited about something in that little blue car. Supposedly, a farmer in the Caucasus was just trying to get through a lane, and this, dubbed the “sheep cyclone,” is what developed.

Follow the jump for the video. If you put [...]

Video: Watch this Audi transform into a moving picture show

Filed under: Sedan, Videos, Audi, Russia, Design/Style

Though we still can’t explain the technology, we’re becoming big fans of projection mapping, as can also be seen in this video that has also been featured on these pages.
From what we can gather, a Russian marketing team called Radugadesign was behind this production, and we can only assume [...]

Video: Dual power windows… emphasis on “dual”

Filed under: Etc., Technology, Videos

To paraphrase the Almond Joy commercial, sometimes you feel like a tint, sometimes you don’t. In states like California, having any tint on your front windows is verboten. It’s only casually enforced, but it’s still illegal. In that case, something like this setup might come in handy: a Russian gent on [...]

Official: Lada gears up for racing campaign with new Granta Sport

Filed under: Sedan, Russia, MISC, Racing

Lada? Racing? We’ve got to be kidding, right? Only we’re not. While the Russian automaker may not have the motorsport pedigree of, say, Ferrari or Porsche, there’s reason enough to believe it’s getting serious.
One reason is its new corporate cousins at the Renault-Nissan Alliance, which owns part of Lada’s parent [...]

Official: Lada steps out of the Cold (War Era) with new Granta budget sedan

Filed under: Budget, Sedan, Russia

It’s not every day that Lada comes out with a new car. In fact, the Samara – which the model you see here is set to replace – has been on the market pretty much unchanged since 1997. (And that’s not even their oldest model: the Niva 4×4 has been out [...]