Aurus Motors Aurus Senat: The Russian luxury car - From Leaked to Official

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Kalashnikov Bike Looks as Badass as You Think | RideApart
By RideApart Staff - August 07, 2018
Kalashnikov Bike Looks as Badass as You Think
The Kremlin's motorcade will be complete with a fleet of these bullet bikes
The Russian presidential vehicle armada received a thorough upgrade in the Spring with an entire fleet of new armored vehicles including limos, SUVs, and sedans. A flight of two-wheelers was on the menu as well, but it's only recently that we got a peek at what the presidential escort will ride on and it looks just as wonky and as badass as you'd expect.

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Part tank, part motorcycle, and sprinkled with a little something something, the future motorcade ride looks exactly what you'd picture Putin's posse to show up on. Now, it will have a brand to match. The bikes, currently called Kortezh, will be branded by Izh, currently owned by Kalashnikov. Yeah, the guys who make the rifles everyone wanted to find in a chest in N64's Golden Eye game.

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The behemoth will tip the scale at a massive 1,100lb but has at least been given enough power to make sense with an estimated output of 150 horsepower. This should allow the Death Star to do the 0 to 60 in roughly 3.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 70 mph. It will also come with the manufacturer's promise that the new model will meet if not surpass its competitors' quality (the BMWs and Urals currently on the fleet).

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Good news for anybody with a weird fascination for the Kremlin or the curiosity to ride on something Russian besides the Ural—the Kortezh will be available to the public. No price has been announced and the company expects the production model to vary slightly from the prototype, but "it will definitely use the design and technical solutions used," according to Sergei Chemezov, CEO of the Rostec State Corporation, the company that will build the bike.

Production is expected to begin in 2019 and the Kortezh could even be heading to America. So, will it benefit from the same AK-47 reputation or will the Kortezh turn out to be a wet bullet?

Kalashnikov Bike Looks as Badass as You Think | RideApart

 

[DjordjeC63]

and reach a top speed of 70 mp

Wrong. Top speed should be 250kmh.

 

[DjordjeC63]

Body seems tall?

 

[WAND]

Picture by picture continues...

WTF is this ?

Aurus - copy of RR Phantom. :/
I mean, if they already want to create own brand, why they didn't hire some designers.
And if it's not cheap, then why some would buy this rather than RR ?
Except Putin friends and some who want to please him.

 

[KiwiRob]

It's a better looking car than Trump's 'Beast'. In LWB trim it's a well balanced design.

 

[KiwiRob]

And if it's not cheap, then why some would buy this rather than RR ?
Except Putin friends and some who want to please him.

All the govt fleets of A8 and S class's will move over to these, if you've ever been in Russia all the big govt boys are driven around in S Class and A8's, often with another car (usually an SUV) following with guards; there are hundreds of them swanning around Moscow and St Petersburg with flashing blue lights. So there's already a large domestic market for this vehicle.

 

[DjordjeC63]

Rolls royce was also inspiration in past

...so was Mercedes

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It has nothing russian in it...

 

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Holy crap, I'm glad the cold war never turned into a full blown land warfare scenario... those damn Russians could have spinning high-kicked their way across Europe and looked fabulous doing it!

 

[Gorgaar]

Greetings!

I like the Aurus cars, they have some unique selling points compared to their competition by Mercedes-Maybach, Bentley and Rolls Royce.

The cars can be factory armoured and the base vehicles have been engineered accordingly from the inception. Only Mercedes offers this on the Maybach and Pullman, if you want a factory armoured Phantom or Mulsanne you are out of luck. Armouring specialists of course can help, but they have to work with base vehicles unoptimised for the added weight and strip down a completed vehicle to the core.

The cars have all-wheel drive as standard, neither Phantom, Mulsanne or Pullman can be had with 4WD. The standard-length Maybach is available as 4matic but only the non-armoured version.

The Aurus cars are performance hybrids similar to the Porsche Panamera E-Hybrids. Not even an option with Maybach, Pullman, Phantom, Ghost and Mulsanne, at least not with the current model generations.

I find the Aurus Arsenal particularly useful as an Escort car. The space of a van certainly has advantages but the competitors Mercedes V-Class and VW Multivan once again are not available with factory armouring, are smaller and have difficulties with the added weight, a problem compounded by their small engines. The VW Vans the Russians used as escorts have space for 8 people but look like the hack job they are.

I think I got from one of the videos the Russians engineered special tires that work with high weights at high speeds.

I also like the design even though it heavily borrows elements from the competition. In my opinion the result is quite pleasing and appears powerful and intimidating, which I think was the intention.

I would totally drive them, or rather be chauffeured. Of course provided that the German engineering succeeded in making the Russians offer a competitive quality product.

 

[DjordjeC63]

^ porsche engineering was involved.

 

[Matski]

Greetings!

I like the Aurus cars, they have some unique selling points compared to their competition by Mercedes-Maybach, Bentley and Rolls Royce.

The cars can be factory armoured and the base vehicles have been engineered accordingly from the inception. Only Mercedes offers this on the Maybach and Pullman, if you want a factory armoured Phantom or Mulsanne you are out of luck. Armouring specialists of course can help, but they have to work with base vehicles unoptimised for the added weight and strip down a completed vehicle to the core.

The cars have all-wheel drive as standard, neither Phantom, Mulsanne or Pullman can be had with 4WD. The standard-length Maybach is available as 4matic but only the non-armoured version.

The Aurus cars are performance hybrids similar to the Porsche Panamera E-Hybrids. Not even an option with Maybach, Pullman, Phantom, Ghost and Mulsanne, at least not with the current model generations.

I find the Aurus Arsenal particularly useful as an Escort car. The space of a van certainly has advantages but the competitors Mercedes V-Class and VW Multivan once again are not available with factory armouring, are smaller and have difficulties with the added weight, a problem compounded by their small engines. The VW Vans the Russians used as escorts have space for 8 people but look like the hack job they...

Fair points, but if I recall correctly the last Phantom came from the factory as an armoured version. I don't think BMW publicise such things that heavily but they do have a 40 year history building vehicles to various ballistic standards, so I'd be surprised if the new Phantom wasn't offered as such sooner or later, and possibly the Cullinan too.

edit: Welcome to GCF by the way.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

they have some unique selling points compared to their competition by Mercedes-Maybach, Bentley and Rolls Royce.

I think that it has only one selling point and it is the sanctions against Russia. It must be quite embarrassing to have to beg to be allowed to purchase and pay for decent government vehicles. They do not need to sell these cars, they are aimed just to cover their necessities and keep the pride and dignity of the Russian nation.

 

[Gorgaar]

Fair points, but if I recall correctly the last Phantom came from the factory as an armoured version. I don't think BMW publicise such things that heavily but they do have a 40 year history building vehicles to various ballistic standards, so I'd be surprised if the new Phantom wasn't offered as such sooner or later, and possibly the Cullinan too.

edit: Welcome to GCF by the way.

Thank you!

Yes, the old Phantom was officially available as "Phantom Armoured" but it was outsourced to a company called "Mutec" which went bankrupt sometime around 2010. Mutec was also responsible for the Long wheelbase Phantom which added an extra 85 cm middle section over the Extended wheelbase and was offered as armoured and non-armoured version. I don't think it was a commercial success, at least 2 LWBs were built but they were not armoured. Maybe RR/BMW didn't feel like it's worth it doing it again for the old Phantom but they should definitely do it for the new Phantom and Cullinan, too!

Bentley used to pride itself on "building armoured cars" as opposed to just armouring cars emphasising the integrated factory approach with the Arnage Mulliner around 2003, offering several wheelbase options. You probably can get a "semi-official" armoured Bentley from Welp-Armouring, which is the coach-building partner of Bentley with the Grand Limousine. What such a vehicle is usually missing compared to the full factory approach is the rigorous standard testing regime with tens of thousands of kilometres of testing in all climates and especially crash tests for the armoured vehicle in series production. Specialists offer some testing but it's not the same for a one-off vehicle. Would still drive it though, hehe.

Bentley has mulled over getting back to offering an official armoured car line around 2012 but somehow I think they didn't get around to do it. Since both Rolls Royce and Bentley made their armoured versions public in the past I believe there would be information otherwise but I haven't asked them.

 

[Matski]

Thank you!

Yes, the old Phantom was officially available as "Phantom Armoured" but it was outsourced to a company called "Mutec" which went bankrupt sometime around 2010. Mutec was also responsible for the Long wheelbase Phantom which added an extra 85 cm middle section over the Extended wheelbase and was offered as armoured and non-armoured version. I don't think it was a commercial success, at least 2 LWBs were built but they were not armoured. Maybe RR/BMW didn't feel like it's worth it doing it again for the old Phantom but they should definitely do it for the new Phantom and Cullinan, too!

Interesting, I hadn't realised Mutec did the Phantom Armoured. I recall the days of the LWB E65 7 series they produced, and being somewhat surprised BMW signed off something so 'aftermarket' when they'd already supposedly developed their own inhouse successor to the E38 L7.

 

[KiwiRob]

I think that it has only one selling point and it is the sanctions against Russia. It must be quite embarrassing to have to beg to be allowed to purchase and pay for decent government vehicles. They do not need to sell these cars, they are aimed just to cover their necessities and keep the pride and dignity of the Russian nation.

That statement is full of holes, development of these vehicles started before the Ukrainian issue which led to sanctions. Besides the cars the govt use at the moment are all German, the Germans and the EU haven’t sanctioned motor vehicles.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

That statement is full of holes, development of these vehicles started before the Ukrainian issue which led to sanctions. Besides the cars the govt use at the moment are all German, the Germans and the EU haven’t sanctioned motor vehicles.

So you say that when the Russian goverment ordered the R&D of the future escort cars they were not aware that they are going to anex Crimea and it would be followed by different kind of sanctions