Start with what the ZIL-41047 is: a Limousine (ZIL-41047) / Saloon (car) / Saloon (ZIL-41041) / Convertible (car) / Convertible (ZIL-41044) / Ambulance (ZIL-41042) with 7.7L ZIL-4104 V8, built from 1985 to 2010, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The ZIL-41047 is a limousine built by ZIL in Russia, although the production of models ceased in 2010 due to their customer base turning to more modern Western vehicles.
The engineering
The engine is 7.7L ZIL-4104 V8. On the scales it comes to 3030 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 3300 mm (ZIL-41041) / 3880 mm (ZIL-41047). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the ZiL line-up the ZIL-41047 has a clear place: it replaced the ZIL-117 (ZIL-41041) / ZIL-4104 / ZIL-4104/41045 (ZIL-41047) / ZIL-4104 / ZIL-4105/41051 (ZIL-41052); it handed the line to the ZIL-4112R (ZIL-41047); the factory was Soviet Union. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Jeep Wrangler, the SEAT Ibiza, the Ferrari Testarossa. Its ZiL stablemates include the 9P138 Grad-1 and the AMO-2.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the ZIL-41047 — 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.