RUSSIA: ZIL could assemble FAW trucks and buses Russia's Moscow-based truck manufacturer ZIL may start assembling trucks and buses for China's First Automotive Works (FAW), Vedomosti business daily ...

It's October 1961, and the country is the Soviet Union. An urgent command is issued for developing an all-terrain wheeled snowmobile. Deadline – January 1, 1963, so it's a tight schedule. The task ...

The Prime-TASS news agency reports that Russia's Moscow-based truck manufacturer ZIL plans to become profitable in three years' time. The report cited remarks by the company's General Director ...

Russian car manufacturers want the country’s leaders to trade their Mercedes in for domestically produced limousines. While President Putin has been traveling in a Mercedes-Benz S-Guard Pullman, the ...

What the hell is ZiL to begin with? Well, it's the acronym of 'Zavod imeni Likhachova', or 'Plant named for Likhachov', an automobile, truck, military vehicle and heavy equipment manufacturer based in ...

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev is said to be keen to revive the ZiL limousine, the car that was for decades the automotive symbol of Soviet authority, for government and diplomatic use. This rather ...

The launch of the vehicle marks a new dawn not only for the driving comfort of Kremlin officials, but also for ZiL itself. After six full years of development, President Vladimir Putin finally has a ...