MAZ-5549 is a further development of models of MAZ-503. The car got up on the conveyor in 1977 and produced until 1990 Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ, Russian: , Open JSC Minsky Avtomobilny Zavod) is a state-run automotive manufacturer association in Belarus, largest in Eastern and Central Europe. It manufactures heavy-duty trucks, buses, trolleybuses, road tractors and semi-trailers for semi-trailer trucks, and cranes. MAZ also manufactures TELs (Transporter-Erector-Launchers) for many of the worlds mobile ballistic missiles, from the widely proliferated MAZ-543 used to carry and launch the Scud B up through the Topol Ms impressive 8-axle TEL.