Start with what the GAZ-14 Chaika is: a car with 5.5 , built from 1977 to 1967, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The GAZ-14 Chaika is an automobile manufactured by the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ, Gorky Automobile Plant) from 1977 to 1988 as a generation of its Chaika marque.
The hardware
The engine is 5.5 . On the scales it comes to 2615 kg. Drive goes through a 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 3450 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the GAZ line-up the GAZ-14 Chaika has a clear place: it replaced the GAZ-13 Chaika; it handed the line to the GAZ-3105; the factory was Gorky, Soviet Union. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the BMW 7 Series, the Ford Fiesta, the Lotus Esprit. Its GAZ stablemates include the Chaika and the GAZ 24-24.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the GAZ-14 Chaika — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.