What car is it ?

[EvilPaladin]

Does anyone know what the red car is ?

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/slide.mv?num=656

[Matra et Alpine]

Does anyone know what the red car is ?
I know most folks won't beleive it, but the title is true.
It IS a LADA.

Actually a VAZ, but they're known as Lada everywhere else but Russia.

All the info's at http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ngsa.ru%2F&lp=ruen&intl=1&tlb=1

Called the Vaz Revolution it’s powered by a 1.6-litre engine producing 215bhp coupled to a 6-speed gearbox. Has the slogan ‘The Harmony of Revolution’ looks superb and performance figures are excellent, 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds.

http://www.ngsa.ru/images/pz_011.jpg

There might be more and better pictures as part of the Geneva Motor show.

[EvilPaladin]

Thanks.

[Suka]

I know most folks won't beleive it, but the title is true.
It IS a LADA.

Actually a VAZ, but they're known as Lada everywhere else but Russia.

All the info's at http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ngsa.ru%2F&lp=ruen&intl=1&tlb=1

Called the Vaz Revolution it’s powered by a 1.6-litre engine producing 215bhp coupled to a 6-speed gearbox. Has the slogan ‘The Harmony of Revolution’ looks superb and performance figures are excellent, 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds.

http://www.ngsa.ru/images/pz_011.jpg

There might be more and better pictures as part of the Geneva Motor show.


Now that is totally superb!

[Scientist]

Looks sweet...
A bit like the Radical Turbo and the Westfield XTR...I like it

[Batmobile_Turbo]

so is LADA a russian company?

[henk4]

so is LADA a russian company?

Lada is not the name of the company. It was used as a name for the car dveloped from the Fiat 124 and sold abroad. In Russia the car was called Zhiguli.

[Matra et Alpine]

Lada is not the name of the company. It was used as a name for the car dveloped from the Fiat 124 and sold abroad. In Russia the car was called Zhiguli.
IIRC Lada was the name given to the car manufactured at one of the factories in the USSR.
It became the range name adopted for selling the car outside Europe.
So like the name 'Rover' I think it is legitiamte to call the company LADA.

It was more than just the 124 copy, that was their first major export.
Since then they went on to build other models.

The NIVA 4x4 was quite popular in the UK and still some off-roaders say it is one of the best for twisty forest sections in competition in Scotland !!

Moskvich ( another Eastern-bloc car manufacturing plant ) seemed to take over the aging 124 production line after Lada :)

After the break up of the republic, the numerous car-factories have combined under the company AUTOBAS ( Auto-Vas ? ). I'm not sure if this is a merger, a takeover or just a common marketing agreement. Russian business is still a mystery :)

Lada and AutoBas are synonymous.
They may legallay be the same in Russia - who knows :) ??

But sorry to disagree henk, I would say Lada is a car company.
The same way as we would say Chevrolet or Jaguar - but no car comparisons please :) :)

[henk4]

IIRC Lada was the name given to the car manufactured at one of the factories in the USSR.
But sorry to disagree henk, I would say Lada is a car company.
The same way as we would say Chevrolet or Jaguar - but no car comparisons please :) :)


Well, I have spent about 4 years in various new states (names ending -stan)that were part of the Soviet Union before the break up. The Zhiguli was the car that was sold as Lada for export. In fact there were also a lot of Lada's on the road, but these were re-imported cars. In the nineties russian ships left ports in western europe with deckloads of lada's. However people always referred to the car as Zhiguli. Moskvitch was a different brand. Lada's were constructed in a brandnew factory in a place called Togliattigrad, aptly named after the leader of the Italian communist party. Later on other cars were added to the production line, including the Samara and the Niva (of extremely poor build quality). I think these were sold as Lada. In 2000 you could still go to the factory and get your car directly, for less than 3000 US$.

One of my favourite stories during my time there was that the Fiat 124 was the 1966 European car of the year, and that it was also the car in which I passed my drivers license exam in 1967. Incidently it is still common practice for driving tests in these countries that people have know how to repair a car. We had the discussion about the longevity of modern cars, well, to repair a Lada was (and is) standard stuff.