Posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:25pm
Crossover vehicles have taken the modern automotive landscape by storm, with many crediting different cars as the original disruptors. From the AMC Eagle to the Jeep Cherokee to the Subaru Outback, cars in the western world have been crossing category lines for decades, but I just learned about a mid-1950s Soviet-era car that predates them all. It’s called the GAZ M-72, and it blended the unibody structure from GAZ’s sedan with a true off-road ready four-wheel-drive system. It was a four-wheel-drive sedan that came decades before Audi introduced its Quattro to the world, too.
