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Old 02-05-13, 19:55
Kuno Kuno is offline
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ErAZ-762... that means.... I have missed the real rarity :-(

And - I have a question: Would you know, why the Russians did not produce trucks which were more different to each other in the look?
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Old 02-05-13, 20:20
Eduard Sorokin Eduard Sorokin is offline
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This is very large and difficult question.
The main version of answer - Soviet designers were aimed to provide mainly the National Defence with their vehicles. It is known, that all vehicles (or their most part) in any country are the "military reserve", and this reserve could to be impressed in military use in any moment.
It is not very important, how looks the military truck - this truck must to be hard, cheap, powerful and reliable only. It's appearance is not main subject.

Due these reasons, Soviet designers did not care about civilian customers, and designed those almost similar vehicles.

There were many experimental designs with different appearance in the USSR, of course. However, these designs were abandoned, or not adopted, or cancelled in favour of more simple, cheaper, or "easier-in-production" types.
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Old 02-05-13, 21:45
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Many thanks for that explanation, Eduard.
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