Engines of the Red Army in WW2

D-8 Armoured Car

D-8 »Russki-Ford« Armoured Car

As a result of their extensive experience with armoured cars during the Civil War, the Soviets showed a great deal of interest in developing more modern ones during the 1930s, though initial efforts had to await the rejuvenation of the Russian automobile industry which began in the late 1920s.
Like the Imperial Russian Army before them, the RKKA saw the armoured car as falling into two main classes, light and heavy.
Light cars were armed with machine-guns, heavies with guns in the 37mm-45mm range.
Following the BA-27 project, the next projects were undertaken at the Izhorskiy Factory in Kolpino on the basis of newly imported Ford A automobiles, and their Soviet copies, the GAZ-A.
The first of these was the D-8, in its original form a very simple open-topped design.
The D-8 had a two-man crew sitting back to back so that the rear man could fire a rear-mounted machine-gun.
A small number was produced from 1932 until 1934, and the later production batches were fully armoured [as shown here].
Source : Zaloga/Grandsen, Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of WW2.