ZiL-118 "Yunost" (Youth)
ZIL (Likhachev Plant) produced buses in Moscow, the USSR / Russia.
The plant produced buses with a small batch, from 1962 to 1970. About 20 pieces were produced.
It was created mainly for party officials, based on the ZiL-111 limousine.
Used as a taxi in some institutions, as well as a sightseeing bus in the resorts of the USSR. A medical version was created on its basis.
The bus was developed taking into account the automotive fashion of that time. The four headlights in front and behind, in the form of a rocket nozzle, are characteristic of the world automotive fashion of that period, although in the USSR it was an innovation. The head of Ford, Henry Ford II, tried to redeem a bus license in the US, but without success, although he bought one for personal use. In 1967 he received 12 top awards at the International Bus Exhibition in Nice.
Small batches were produced in connection with the long launch on the assembly line of the plant, which in the first run launched civil and lorries in production, and, in the future, due to the state’s disinterest in production and obsolescence.
The game is used as a bus
The car is painted in the color of the bus route lines.
