Spotted: Lada Niva

[Kardon]

I searched and didn't come up with anything, saw this the other day!

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Apparently they sold these things until 1998! I've never seen/noticed one before so I thought I'd put it up.

[Sentry]

I saw a beige one the other day on 16ave turning onto 10st.

[Kardon]

You go to sait sentry? I think I saw you yesterday/day before.

[corsvette]

My cousin had one,very good off road,it had full locking diffs but was a bit underpowered,he beat on it alot before he broke the tranny,neat little rigs.

[Sentry]

Yeah I do. My car's dirty as shit, but you can still make out an NWT plate.

[Kloubek]

You've never seen these? Really? Odd... I've seen a bunch.

I was stopped, waiting for a red light in the left lane. In the right lane (going the same direction), I see one of these pass at a fairly slow rate of speed, and something metal (like a bar of some sort) from under it fell onto the ground. Then it smacked directly into a car some 10 meters ahead. Not sure what fell out, but obviously it was fairly essential.

corsvette thinks they are nice rigs, but in reality they are the biggest POS ever made. I remember when they were selling though, and they were super cheap. This model was something like 4-6 grand, if I recall correctly.

Look on kijiji; they are around...

[AndyL]

Lots of em around... Think there's still 1-2 new ones on the lot (yeah not around since the 90's) over at anselm motors on edmonton trail :D

Used to have one - GREAT little truck... Hard to get parts for... Lots of funky russian overbuilding in some places... The hand crank for the engine (think about that annoying thing you use to drop down your spare tire) saved my arse a few times. Yes they all had em...

[Kardon]

Shit, guess I don't drive enough. Funny they come with a 21 piece tool kit for roadside repairs

[Nissan_Fanboy]

You guys have seen those?
wtf.. i haven

[Kardon]

Originally posted by Sentry
Yeah I do. My car's dirty as shit, but you can still make out an NWT plate.

TBH didn't catch the plate, just recognized the wheels and color :p, I'm working up there, I've seen it a couple times. Anyone taking the train from sait has most likely seen me fucking around in a white bobcat in that loading area across from the platform..

[Aleks]

Lots of these are still in use in East Euro countries. Virtually unstoppable offroad.

[toastgremlin]

I've seen a few of them milling around Calgary. I knew an owner of one a few years ago; he filled the rear hatch with spare parts (up to and including a spare distributor and carburetor).

Makes VW part hoarding look positively conservative, honestly. :) They are pretty good off road, but I wouldn't want to own one for a daily driver.

[TorqueDog]

I would own a Lada, just for a month. I'd drive it as much as humanly possible.

I just want to be able to say "I've been to automotive hell and back - I owned a Lada." And, like Richard Hammond with "Oliver", I probably wouldn't want to get rid of it.

[Graham_A_M]

There is a Lada specialty shop right on Edmonton Trail, just heading southbound RIGHT before you reach Memorial. Quite a few Lada's typically parked there.

They may be decent for off-roading, but I remember when they were in the auto & truck show many years ago. They had a few for demo obviously. Without too much effort countless interior pieces came off/undone with only my bare hands :nut:. When I went to close the door the inner handle broke off. I had get the sales person to let me out from the outside.
:facepalm: I handed him the handle and walked off, as did the people he was talking too :rofl:

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Originally posted by Sentry
Yeah I do. My car's dirty as shit, but you can still make out an NWT plate.

Has your car been in the shop at SAIT before? Middle shop about two maybe three weeks ago?

[Sentry]

Yeah. :)

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Originally posted by Sentry
Yeah. :)

Nice car man! I took a look at it when I was on break.

[atgilchrist]

Originally posted by Graham_A_M
There is a Lada specialty shop right on Edmonton Trail, just heading southbound RIGHT before you reach Memorial. Quite a few Lada's typically parked there.



Ensel's. He also focuses on old Alfa's.

[honkypho]

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode with Homer test driving that old, brown Russian car.

[mr2mike]

Originally posted by corsvette
but was a bit underpowered


Understatement of the year

[pf0sh0]

There is one for sale on kijiji,

I think it is a 1997 68000kms 1997 for about 1500$

[Tilly]

haha, lada.

does it go ten hectares on a single pint of kerosene?

[Sentry]

PUT IT IN H

[01RedDX]

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[revelations]

Powered by Vodka?

Ya they are built like the rest of the communist vehicles - short term use only - thus providing jobs to the factory workers!

I remember sitting in one once and I could see a nice hole right through the windshield edge rubber seal. I had time to look around as the person driving the car couldnt stop it from flooding.

[Alak]

They pretended to pay us, we pretended to work.

[95teetee]

I remember back in the eary 90's, this kid was driving his sister's Lada (some car model, not the SUV) and one of my friends put his foot on the end of the exhaust pipe (which, iirc, was about 3/4 of an inch:D ).
The car stalled in about 2 seconds. We laughed. The kid driving it was pissed off. We still laughed.

[AndyL]

Car was the Samara

Now it was a POS :)

[canuckcarguy]

Awful cars. Family friend bought one in the early 90s brand new for about $7000, couldn't get $2000 for it 3 years later. He was about 50,000 km into it, and had replaced just about everything at least once. And he didn't even use it off-road.

[Vanner]

Ahhh, that POS of the rust-bitten cars... yeah I remembered that model. Have seen a couple of them still in use on streets - much to my surprise (!). I think - not sure, but they were only in business for a short time?

Anyway, many years ago my dad and I was in one of Auto Shows where they featured all new cars... it was that year when the Lada first appeared. Dad and me were having that talk about it and we both got in to see how it looked. I was in the driver side, dad in passenager side...both sat down. My hand went on top of manual shift stick to feel the play in gears (not shifting hard!). Like, within 5 mins of observing, the top ball of shift stick went broke! Dad and I stared at the shift ball in my hand, and dad said to me, "Well, son... now we've seen how Russkies built with their hands, EH?"

Putting back the ball on stick and we got out and walked away to other new models. Dad and I never brought that model - ever! That was my first impression, first sign that I knew the Lada s#itballs aren't worth my money!

:thumbsdow