Ovechkin's first car

Alex Ovechkin: "My first car was Russian made Zhiguli, model 6" (VAZ-2106). It was produced from 1976 to 2001 by VAZ from Togliatti, the home town of Victor Kozlov.



From NY Times:

Fiat has been making and selling cars in Brazil for more than 20 years, and for decades has taken cars like the boxy Fiat 124 and assembled them in underdeveloped areas like the old Soviet Union, where the 124 was called the Zhiguli. (Fiat sold cars in the United States with mixed success until it quit the market in 1984.)