This one time I bought a Moskvitch 2140 in the dark. After towing it to a different part of town and starting it (my first experience of wrenching on a car) I commenced work on what the previous owner described as an easy fix, changing the clutch work cylinder. I tried day after day in the cold and snow and rain and…

Posts like this make me sad. Not because they do not raise a valid question, but because it reminds me how effing broke I am. *cries and wipes tears with devaluating rubles*

Ha, well more of “Since then” coming right up!
The Focus from my first comment was a 2nd gen facelift 1.6 automatic (I know, I know, but Moscow has so much traffic that I can’t drive a manual on weekdays with my bad knee), I since then got a Focus III wagon with a 6-speed powershift. At first my passion for hanging…

I remember my first time. It was my first winter behind the wheel and winters are harsh in Moscow. I was driving my Ford Focus which had a worn set of winter tyres. During a particularly bad blizzard I entered a corner too fast and ended up understeering directly into a curb, at which point I remembered the Top Gear…

That's The Moscow City, the building complex that is home to two of the tallest buildings in Europe. The fight broke out between illegal immigrants, the authorities have no idea why, but they charged the lot with hooliganism, 450 people were arrested. That place is far from the city center though, in 1970 that was the…