Those genuine Volgas neither looked nor drove like this coupe. So ignore the chrome "Volga" letters on this coupe's trunk and the famous "shark's teeth" Volga grille, because this Volga coupe is not a Volga at all. Only the head- and taillights are original.

This coupe takes a BMW 850CSi chassis (last built in '96), transmission, and engine and grafts on the unique body. It's not powered by a wheezing 70-hp four-cylinder lump but by a 380-hp V-12 BMW engine capable of hurtling it down Moscow's multi lane highways at a claimed 150 mph. It is said to go from 0 to 60 mph in 6.3 seconds, performance that a KGB agent—even one equipped with the later 195-hp V-8-engined KGB version of the original Volga—would have, well, killed for.