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GAZ-61 was a four wheel drive car from USSR manufacturer GAZ first introduced in 1938 GAZ-61 to replace V.A Grachev's too-complex model GAS-M21, but production didn't really start until 1940. It was made by putting the GAZ M2 body on a four-wheel-drive chassis. Designed by V. A. Gratchev. It is the worlds first SUV and possibly the world's first all-wheel drive passenger car. It could climb angles up to 38 degrees and cross water up to deep.
The first version, made between 1940 and 1941, was a 5-seated 4-door phaeton.
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GAZ-61 was a four wheel drive car from USSR manufacturer GAZ first introduced in 1938 GAZ-61 to replace V.A Grachev's too-complex model GAS-M21, but production didn't really start until 1940. It was made by putting the GAZ M2 body on a four-wheel-drive chassis. Designed by V. A. Gratchev. It is the worlds first SUV and possibly the world's first all-wheel drive passenger car. It could climb angles up to 38 degrees and cross water up to deep.
The first version, made between 1940 and 1941, was a 5-seated 4-door phaeton. It was powered by a 6-cyl 4-stroke engine giving giving a top speed of . Many supreme commanders of the Red Army headquarters used this car in 1941.
In 1941 the updated GAZ-61-73 was introduced. It was now a 5-seat, 4-door 6-light saloon with the same engine, but now rated at a top speed of .
The GAZ-61 was painted not only in civilian black but in in blue and Russian 4BO green as well, together with the typical cross-country tread tires.
The GAZ-61 featured several times in the 1962 Soviet film, Ivanovo Servenaya.
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