Start with what the GAZ-3111 is: a 4-door saloon/sedan with 2.3 , built from 1998 to 2004, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The GAZ-3111 Volga is an automobile manufactured by the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ, Gorky Automobile Plant) from 1998 to 2004 as a generation of its Volga marque. The GAZ-3111 was scheduled to launch in 2000, but the factory's new owner Oleg Deripaska, was unimpressed with the vehicle visually and the high price of the car hindered sales.
As a result, production ended after just over 400 cars had been built in the pre-production batch. Nonetheless, the car did influence the next facelift of the main Volga - the GAZ-31105, which among with a redesigned fascia finally rid the Volga of the archaic kingpins from the front suspension in 2004.
The engineering
The engine is 2.3 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1560 kg. The wheelbase is 2791 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the GAZ line-up the GAZ-3111 has a clear place: it replaced the GAZ-3105; it handed the line to the Volga Siber; the factory was Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Audi TT, the Ford Focus, the Peugeot 206. Its GAZ stablemates include the Chaika and the GAZ 24-24.