mo4ch:>Elon Musk flexes Russian skills while reacting to wild video of backward-driving Soviet car | Mo4ch News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has expressed his approval, in Russian, for an innovative automobile design: a Soviet-era car which gives the appearance of driving backward as it zooms down the highway.Breathing fresh life into a long-lost meme, Russian television network NTV tweeted a video of the modified “Zhiguli” at Musk, asking “How do you like that, @elonmusk?” The electric car messiah was bombarded by similar, tongue-in-cheek queries last year after famous arms manufacturer Kalashnikov announced it was designing an electric automobile of its own.Also on rt.com‘Unlike us, Elon Musk is using old tech’: Russia shows off reusable NUKE ENGINE for Mars missionMusk, it seems, was impressed by the short clip, which shows the remodeled Soviet car – whose body has been flipped, giving the appearance that it’s driving backward – cruising down the road.“Awesome,” Musk declared in Russian.His response triggered an avalanche of jokes – and confusion.Musk’s Russian fans, meanwhile, lavished the entrepren…