2015 Toyota Camry Outdoor Ad

An outdoor TV screen current Toyota Camry advertisement seen here on a December night in 2014 (a year ago).

It's the 2014 facelift Toyota Camry (XV50) which went on sale in 2015 in Russia.

I am not sure I have seen yet a 2014 facelifted Toyota Camry XV50 here in Moscow but they are sold in Russia, and locally assembled too.

Old Bikes, Mopeds, Scooters, etc.

A group shot - a vista of old bike iron

Some kind of motorized bicycle. Don't know its name, though I saw them years ago.
 

An early Jawa moped...

Hard to see it, but believe me it's there - Jawa.

The famous Vyatka motor scooter.

It may or may not have been a copy of the Vespa 150.

Voskhod 3M motorcycle

Saw these a lot - they were everywhere, and quite popular too, though not necessarily in this green color.

175cc

GT6 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 1978

Pictures of the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 1978 in my GT6 Garage.

 Bought it because...

Special Edition too.

Firebird.

Used it to win the Classic Muscle Car challenge in National A.

However, I have to say that the Trans Am is a pretty slow car in the game.

It's slow to accelerate, slow to brake and the top speed is nothing special.

I did win the races but only after multiple upgrades.

Stock, it probably won't win any race with comparable cars, there will always be at least two that will run away (in particular a 1966 Cobra something or other is damn hard to catch in a Trans Am).

First LADA Vestas to Take on Traffic Police Duty

First two LADA Vesta cars were converted to serve as traffic police cars in Russia as per AvtoVAZ press-release [in Russian].

I say "converted" but the conversion only included adding a Russian traffic police livery, audible and visual warning systems and some police-spec communication equipment. These are not specially designated police models.

GT6 Pictures of a Mazda efini RX Type R (FD) 1991

Pictures of a Mazda from my GT6 garage: Mazda efini RX Type R (FD) 1991

Mazda efini RX Type R (FD) 1991 is the third generation of Mazda RX-7.

In production from 1991 to 2002.

The GT6 camera loves this li'l red Mazda.

 It is a Premium car in the game so you can even peek into the salon.

Race photos.

GT6 Pontiac GTO 5.7

Here's another one from my GT6 garage.

A 2004-06 4th Gen Pontiac GTO 5.7

Because subdued, nondescript and even dated looks coupled with huge power and performance potency.

 Jalopnik says it is a future classic.

Black may be not the best color to shoot GT6 cars in.

GTO 5.7 in some races.

Won every race I entered it.

Mounted Police

Two mounted police in winter gear that I spotted last winter.

Once Russia was very much into horses. 

The largest horse population anywhere in the world. Huge macadam-free distances only navigable by horse.

Entire social groups depended on the horse for everything both in war and peacetime such as the Cossacks also some nomadic groups as part of the Russian nation.

Large horse armies existed well into the 1950s. Crack horseback troops were very successfully utilized in WW2 by the Red Army. 

Cavalry has the advantage over foot infantry of being able to infiltrate though swampy grounds and over motorized infantry and tanks, the advantage of being able to infiltrate through woods and hills and mountainous areas as well. 

A single horse regiment may have survived to this day. 

There are some mounted police left as well although not anywhere in as many numbers as in the 1950s through the 1970s really.