Start with what the GAZ-3102 is: a 4-door saloon/sedan with 2.3 , built from 1982 to 2009, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer.
The story
The GAZ-3102 Volga is an automobile manufactured by the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ, Gorky Automobile Plant) from 1982 to 2009 as a generation of its Volga marque.
What is underneath
The engine is 2.3 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1,455 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual (1982–1997) / 5-speed manual (1997–2009) / 4-speed Aisin Warner automatic (2007–2009). The wheelbase is 2,800 mm (110.2 in). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the GAZ line-up the GAZ-3102 has a clear place: it replaced the GAZ-24-10 Volga; it handed the line to the GAZ-3105 / GAZ-3110; the factory was Soviet Union. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Toyota Camry, the Porsche 944, the Opel Corsa. Nearby in the GAZ catalogue sit the Chaika and the GAZ 24-24.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the GAZ-3102 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.