ZiL-118
ZiL-118 is a luxury bus of the AMO ZiL company. It was produced from 1963 to 1994 on the basis of the ZiL-111 car. In 1971, the ZiL-118 was redesigned and since named ZiL-119.
Design
Another official car, the ZiL-111, was intended only for civil servants at least at the Politburo level. The limited need for such vehicles, which were not intended for mass use, led to insufficient workload in ZiL’s parts assembly production workshops. To solve this problem, an initiative group of ZiL employees decided to design a multi-seater vehicle using ZiL-111 filling.
This group, in their free time, designed a new car, which received the index 118. It used the transmission and suspension of a limousine, an engine from a truck ZiL-130 (V8 block with a rate of compression of 6.5 for low octane gasoline engines and a power of 150 HP). The first version of the bus, called “Yunost” (Youth), entered testing in 1962. The glazing was made in the style of a circular panorama. There were 17 passenger seats in the cabin.
Comments
The demonstration of the car to the government delighted the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. Not mass-produced, the car was exhibited in France at the Soviet “Intourist” exhibition in 1967 during the International Bus Week in Nice (Provence).
The car received 12 awards. In April 1970, when Henry Ford II visited the ZiL factory, he offered to purchase a license to produce Yunosts in the United States, or to establish joint production, but was refused.
The design of the first version of the ZiL-118 was compared to that of the Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier Sportswagon produced from 1961 to 1965.
Assembly: Moscow (USSR)
Years of production: 1963—1971
Production: 21 units
Length: 6840 mm
Width: 2110 mm
Height: 2067 mm
Passenger capacity: 16+1
Engine: 8 cylinders; 6962 cm³
Power: 180 HP
Max speed: 110 km/h
Fuel consumption: 26 l/100 km
Weight: 3350 kg
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