Vervolf: the mysterious Russian limo
UPDATE: Concept sketches added after jump, which actually don't look half bad. 
A Mini, a Chrysler 300 and a Ferrari 612 once spent a crazy night partying in Moscow, and nine months later, this was the result: a hideously ugly, yet strangely intriguing luxury limousine.
We don't know much about it, but here's what we do know. It's called the Vervolf, which we can only assume is Russian for Werewolf, which would strike us as a particularly fitting name for such a beastly abomination. It seems to be built by a private coachbuilder in St. Petersburg, and sells for ?60,000. What it's based on, what's under the hood, how it performs... these all remain question marks. We could find out, but we wouldn't want an intimate encounter with Polonium 210, an obvious component to this mutant car's creation. (Just kidding, Vlad.) But seriously, we wouldn't be surprised to find out it were driven by surplus Soviet-era nuclear power.
More pics of the mystery-mobile after the jump.
[Source: Fishki.net via Motorpasion]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bob 2:54PM (12/05/2006)
This is for all the people who complain that cars always look like other cars. This is the alternative, people! Yikes.
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Mr_Oak 11:35AM (12/05/2006)
"It seems to be built by a private coachbuilder in St. Petersburg".
Are you sure you didn't mean Pirate coachbuilder?
This is just plain wrong.
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exst 11:35AM (12/05/2006)
This thing scares me... and also, where the doors made intentionaly to missmatch in color? Nothing like russian engineering...
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Bob 11:52AM (12/05/2006)
I like the tires on the one on the bottom. Looks like its ready to go off roading.
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JD 12:29PM (12/05/2006)
Based on the proportions and the interior floor, it looks like it's front wheel drive. Sounds perfect for a new Lincoln :-P
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JasonH 11:44AM (12/05/2006)
I was thinking it had sonar reverse sensors on the rear, but they could just be rivets or bolts holding the bumper on.
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curtis 11:47AM (12/05/2006)
I like it better than the stupid limos we have here in the States. Stretched Town Cars, CrownsVs, Hummers, Escalades, 300c are all stupid ideas, somebody in the states needs to grow some and come up with an original limo design. I think the only thing on this car that even remotely resembles another car is the tail lights looking a little like the Veyron, but aside from that this car is great! Sharp and sporty, yet still embodying luxury, something a stretched every day car can and never will pull off.
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Kri 11:50AM (12/05/2006)
Has a Caddy Northstar V8, 305 hp, and the site of the manufacturer is:
http://www.werwolf.ru/
It actually looked a lot more promising in drawings, the doors looking very weird, along with the front. But it's another step in the right direction :)
They'll get there and compared to some of our Western monstrosities, such as the Pontiac Aztec, it's positively beautiful ;)
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Big Rocket 12:25PM (12/05/2006)
Є60,000 Euros ($80,000 USD) for this ugly Russian monstrosity? When Chinese cars are ugly, at least they are affordable.
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Master Blaster DrooBeDoo 6:16PM (12/05/2006)
From a 3/4 quarter view to the rear it looks vaguely reminiscent of a Studebaker Avanti...
If the door/windows were resolved better I think I could actually like this...
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Kent 12:19PM (12/05/2006)
The drawings do look alot better. Let's hope they "get there".
http://www.werwolf.ru/models/?language=ru
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N Z K 2:21PM (12/05/2006)
It almost looks cubist.
Also, "vervolf" isn't Russian for "werewolf" (that would be "оборотни" "oborotni" -- thank you Wikipedia), but likely the nearest approximation of the English word.
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Yakov Smirnoff 12:57PM (12/05/2006)
In Russia the limo throws up on you.
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Ty 1:31PM (12/05/2006)
Curtis is joking, right? Please tell me #4 Curtis is joking.
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Dimitry 6:13PM (12/05/2006)
I like some parts of it, but not most. Side view is not bad at all and the rear is somewhat ok, but the front is too ugly.
On the site it says that the in the prototype they used VW Beetle headlights and in the back they were going for Ferrari rear-end.
And yeah, drawings looked quite promising :/
Dimitry
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Jim in Tampa 4:25PM (12/05/2006)
That is one ugly car!
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BartMack 3:15PM (12/05/2006)
Hey you guys-! You do realize these are spy photos of the next gen Impala-?
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Ron 3:17PM (12/05/2006)
Who are they trying to fool? That's GM's 2009 Chevy Impala.
I'm only kidding, I think.
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Ron 3:21PM (12/05/2006)
Jesus, I get one original thought and someone else on here beats me to it. Go figure.
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Vince 5:03PM (12/05/2006)
When does the stretch version come out?
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