GAZ-24-95

The GAZ-24-95 was a Soviet four-wheel-drive medium-class car built by the Gorky Automobile Plant in 1974, with only five examples made. It was developed from the rear-wheel-drive GAZ-24 Volga and was tested off the road, with the UAZ-469 as its rival for cross-country ability. The car was built to the order of the Gorky regional committee of the Communist Party, under the design lead Boris Dekhtyar, and Leonid Brezhnev is recorded as using one for hunting. Unlike the UAZ-469 it had no separate load-bearing frame. The makers kept their own transmission, adding an abrasive to quiet the gears, fitted high-friction cam differentials, used leaf springs at the front, GAZ-21 wheels and Chaika tyres, and drew on experience from the GAZ-M72.