The Soviet ZIL-3207 bus was a facelift version of the ZIL-118 Yunost (English: Youth), which itself is based on the ZIL-111 limousine. Russian sources claimed that Henry Ford II (Henry Ford's oldest grandson) wanted to license produce in the USA, but the USSR said no
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standard_cog@reddit
"Henry Ford II (Henry Ford's oldest grandson) wanted to license produce in the USA, but the USSR said no"
r/thatHappened
Soviet (and Russian) equipment is all laughable garbage.
lasskinn@reddit
zil-111's weren't apparently complete garbage but they weren't accessible to a normal person anyway. what would've been the point of licensing it anyway? they could've just cloned it if they wanted, after all the main technologies in it were inspired by american designs of different manufacturers(though supposedly not like 1:1 clones in this instance).
maybe it was a miscommunication and he wanted to be paid via licensing of patents and it was about zil-111? the limos were paraded around european car shows so it's more probable that he saw one of those.
BogdanSPB@reddit
Considering that 90% of GAZ technologies is Ford circa 1940 to this day…