The ZIL-4102 is a 4-door Saloon (car) / saloon / 2-door coupe from ZiL, built from 1987 to 1990, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Under the bonnet: 4.5L ZIL V6.
The background
The ZIL-4102 was a rear-wheel drive saloon developed by the Soviet car manufacturer ZiL (Zavod imeni Lihacheva) in 1987 on the ZIL-41041 platform. The first 4102 prototype was rolled off the production line in 1987 with two more following in 1989 and the final one in late 1990/early 1991. It reportedly had a choice of 3 different power plants (a healthy 4.5L V6, 6.0L V8, and a 7.0L V8 diesel option).
The engineering
Power comes from 4.5L ZIL V6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5-speed manual transmission / manual / 4-speed automatic transmission / 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. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the None; assembly was at Moscow, Soviet Union. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Ferrari F40, the BMW 5 Series, the Jeep Wrangler — show what else the money bought that year. Its ZiL stablemates include the 9P138 Grad-1 and the AMO-2.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the ZIL-4102 — 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.