Rare motorcycles. Experimental model of IZH “Leader” produced by the USSR. The only experimental sample of an escort motorcycle with a rotary piston engine (two-section rotary-piston engine RD-601). Designed in Togliatti and is unified with rotary engines from the VAZ, which in those years were actively used in special service vehicles (KGB).
Vadim Zadorozhny’s Museum of Equipment, Moscow
Years of production: 1989
Country of origin: USSR
Issued: 1 unit
Weight: 145 kg
Power: 52 hp
Speed: 195 km / h
Lada Izhevsk (IZh) is a subsidiary of the state-owned carmaking company AvtoVAZ based in Izhevsk, Russia. It was formerly a subsidiary of Izmash under the IzhAvto brand, and manufactured both motorcycles and automobiles. The company was given its current name in 2017.
