In 1968, chief engineer Alexander Andronov approved at the ministry the technical design of a 1973-1975 car model with an increased wheelbase length, track width, spring rear suspension, and increased power engine. In 1968-1969, the first prototypes were built, which were assigned designations indicating the expected year of development – 3-5 (car model 1973-1975) and the series number.
These cars, at the insistence of Andronov, were a “big Moskvich-408”, which caused a conflict in the AZLK team – designers Igor Zaitsev and Leonid Leonov quit. As practice has shown, they were right – if the car looked good in the mock-up, the real running models turned out to be very “raw” and awkward in appearance, not to mention the fact that they lagged behind global trends in automotive design.
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The first experimental series of the “Moskvich” of the “3-5” project were variants of the car with different locations of the battery, gas tank, spare wheel, different shapes of side members and other search options. Read more