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>Speaking of cars, what is Russian problem with them?
>It's not exactly rocked science or bleeding edge computing, yet they still fail to properly do even basics - like keeping the interior from smelling like gas or glowing hot cigarette lighter launching across the entire cabin.
They basically never had to compete on the open market, even after the fall of the soviet union they had to be propped up by the state else they would keel over so the abysmal build quality from commie times never really went away
The one thing that changed was that they replaced a lot of the domestically produced parts with the finest chinesium after the fall of the ussr with hit or miss results mostly

Obligatory welding electrode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6svzFhN4ng