V16 Lada is powered by chainsaw engines [Video]

You can trust Russian mechanics to come up with some crazy stuff. This time, they’ve put a Fiat 124-derived Lada under the knife, and installed 16 chainsaw engines arranged in a V formation – because why not?

This creation comes courtesy of Garage 54, which has a track record of cutting up Ladas to produce some wild creations – one with 14 wheels, another that walks on metal legs, and even one that rides on tank tracks. But this is perhaps the wildest car build I’ve seen this year.

Produced by the Russian company AvtoVAZ from 1969 to 2012, the Lada VAZ-2101 is a Fiat 124 that’s adapted for use in Russia. The project started with 16 chainsaws from Germany-based Hüter Technik. The team stripped out the unnecessary components from every chainsaw, pulled out the engine from the car, and established a way to integrate all of them into a …