Moskvitch 401 was a car

Automobile

An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

 from Moskvitch

Moskvitch

Moskvitch was an automobile brand from Russia produced by AZLK from 1945 to 1991 and by OAO Moskvitch from 1991 to 2002...

 introduced in 1954. It is a modified copy of the Opel Kadett

Opel Kadett

The Opel Kadett is a small family car produced by the German automobile manufacturer Opel between 1937 and 1940, and then again from 1962 until 1991 , when it was replaced by the Opel Astra.-Original model :...

 K38 (1937–1940).

It weighs 885 kg. Moskvitch 401 was an improved variant of Moskvitch 400-420

Moskvitch 400/420

The Moskvitch 400-420 was a car from Soviet manufacturer Moskvitch introduced in 1947.People in Rüsselsheim remember dismanteling the Kadett production tooling after World War II, to go into a large number of freight cars on their way to Moscow...

, produced from 1954, powered by an uprated 1074 cc sidevalve inline-4 giving 26 hp and a top speed of 90 kilometre per hour. Both models were externally identical. Production ended in 1956 when it was replaced by Moskvitch 402

Moskvitch 402

The Moskvitch 402 is a small family car manufactured by the former Soviet maker MZMA, first time introduced in 1956 as a second generation of the Moskvitch#Generations series...

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