I doubt the russians improved it. Storey is (from former Soviets) that they bought the entire production line in Italy and moved it directly to Russia. Then proceeded to build it for 30 years. See improvement of consumer items WAS POINTLESS to the communists. Because to them a "car is a car". They were more interested in putting effort into thrir military and international influence. There's no incentive to worry about mere consumer stuff. Only capitalism worries about improving consumer items.
@@OffGridInvestor Not really. They improved it to be cheap and somewhat reliable in the cold. As I read in an old book written by one of the chief engineers at the time, they had to correct about 800-900 small things in the design before they started mass producing them. And it was still very very bad. But hey, at least they make reliable snow beaters
Leiam Whittaker noone said fix but improve. There was nothing wrong with swords and spears and catapults or sails and propeller. Its just that machine guns and rockets and artillery and nuclear subs and jet fighters are lightyears ahead.
Yeah, because of their drivers. Lada drivers now in modern Russia are a bit like the US stereotype of little old ladies driving huge old Caddilacs they can barely see over the wheel of, except the Russian ones are drunken old soaks, with few brain cells left. There are plenty of other/modern cheap cars there now.
I worked at a lada dealers back in the 80s . Strangest thing was that I never saw two beige ones exactly the same colour - no pun intended , but literally saw 50 shades of beige . Ladas were superior to the polish FSO as they didn't stink of the fish glue they used to stick the headlining in . I'm being serious .
"50 shades of beige" >excited Lindybeige noises< And ah yes fish glue. The VW Beetle was known for that too... probably the least flattering new car smell there is XD.
I owned and drove both, and never smelt that. But I'm guessing that was a new-car-smell issue, and I've never owned a new car in my life until last year, so I avoided that...
I can't stand that new-car-smell, it's just toxic chemicals to my nose, and quite unpleasant. I left all my windows down every night when my one-and-only new car was garaged overnight - anything to get all the plastic offgassing out of the car. On the basis that only cheaper cars might smell that way, then if anyone ever wants to bring a brand new Roller around to my house for me to smell in comparison, I stand ready.
I used to have one of those. I know all the jokes. But on the plus side, they were reliable ( so little in them that there's not much to go wrong as long as you have a spark and some fuel ), they cold-started better than most other cars of the era ( 42 amp alternator ), the heater was incredible, they didn't dent from minor dings ( 18 gauge steel instead of 23 for some cars, smaller is thicker ), and you could park it in even the scummiest of council estates and know that it'd still be there, and not up on bricks, when you came outside again. They were also very cheap to ensure. On the downside, crappy mpg, dreadful dead-feel steering ( worm and peg instead of rack and pinion ), poor acceleration, rust-prone, and the windows often dropped down into the door panels and required chocking in place with wooden wedges. Good first cars though....
+Ste Cork The engine was so simple you could run them on anything that was combustible. There was stories of people that ran them on kerosene when stuck on a camping trip when they had nothing else. Not that it was efficient or cheap, but it worked for the situation.
I still drive a Lada on daily basis. It was cheap to buy, it's easy to work on it, parts are cheap as if they were for Daewoo Tico, no electronics. I don't need anything else. Kalashnikov among the cars.
I remember in the old country(this was some time during the late 1990's) my uncle was giving me a ride to the train station. Every time he hit a small pothole there was a knocking noise coming from the engine bay. I asked what was the knocking noise. He said it was the engine knocking because it wasn't bolted down and he didn't have the money to buy the bolts or they were hard to come by. Anyway, the friggin' lada will run with the engine swirling around like a pancake in the engine bay.
@@matiasfpm I can't recommend it. Аи-92 tastes like shit, personal experience (I had to syphon the last couple of litres out of a big tank once with a simple garden hose. Fun times!).
Well, i have the honour of owning an 89' Lada Samara as a first car, and she's one hell of a beast. Certainly reliable, cheap, simple, not as good as modern or western cars, but they're alot of fun
Funny is, that this is an export version, and the export versions were a little better than the cars that were sold in the Soviet countries::D And a person could not just come to a car dealership and buy a car, he had to stand in queie for years:D
So are 1960s tractors in my area, for much the same reasons. Extremely simple with no comfort. Heavy as hell with hopeless MPG because of the weight. And the simple engine.
"Austins and Metros" #EpicGrammarFail That; and the Metro's original engine was legendary for its durability, if not its refinement. A crappy VW gearbox didn't help. (yup; VW sold Austin a lousy model of gearbox... probably on purpose)
@@jimtaylor294 You're getting mixed up with the Maestro. The Metro was just rebooted Mini with a hatchback. The Maestro had the VW box, later cars had Honda stuff though. Hell the late Maestros were incredibly tough, well built and dependable. The scrappage scheme killed most of them off though, IIRC over 2000 got scrapped during the length of the scheme.
Grew up with a 2101. These cars were amazing if you took care of them: so easy to fix, that and 8 year old could do it and could take a hell of a lot more beating than modern cars. My dad even welded extra supports back when he was a wee lad and I remember getting into an accident where a bloke ran straight into the back of our car- we got by with a broken light and a bent bumper, while the other chap got his entire front bent in. Sadly, as my dad got older he got annoyed of the constantly rusting car body and bough and Audi, which had zinc coating and a hell of a lot more problems that constantly keep popping up.
I used to know a plumber called Dave Savage from Barnsley that had a Lada. I remember him saying he was getting rid of it for a new car... & you guessed it, that car was another Lada! 😂😂 🚽🚗
Ladas seem to be very resilient. That's not much rust for an old car. When i went to Chernobyl last year there were several old Lada shells knocking around. All still pretty solid
The climate in the UK is quite unforgivable to rust-prone cars. But yeah on the Chernobil topic name one western car that will run in conditions of nuclear fallout - after the UK gets what they have been asking for centuries.
Here in finland were a lots of ladas, people loved them, cheap, really tuff and reliable as hell, later all the teenagers loved them because of their beautiful looks and rear wheel drive and cheapness. Sadly eropean union has ruined this country and there is no much ladas anymore, my dad used to have four ladas when I was a kid
@Michael Martinović I love ladas, they are really tuff built, looks very good, rwd, just perfect. In finland we have Lada Club and lada is big part of finland anyways. They used to be on every house's driveway as grocery getter.
Honestly, these cars (like most Soviet civilian goods) are nowhere near as bad as most people made them out to be. Able to survive the harshest environments with little to no regular maintenance with low prices and looking decent all the while. Nothing wrong with that formula.
And the export versions had (afaik) some upgrade components, like tires, and then again the cheap European cars didn't feel like the pinnacle of quality either. I cannot honestly that, say, Opel Corsa A felt any better than a Lada.
The car industry is one of the largest profit markets in the Western world - so no surprise Western car companies tried every cheap and dirty trick (including the car shows they own) to spread their propaganda - if the large capital pays for it, nothing wrong with that. Westeners shouldn't be allowed to comment on cheap automobiles as they deliberately killed that segment in their countries, and most automobiles from the Warsaw pact, Yugoslavia or today from China has zero competition at its price range. But they never tell you this on the car shows, or the service costs aswell.
They were great cars, loads of the guys on farms around where we lived in the seventies had Moskvitche's (Remember them?) and Lada's. I had a 4x4 in the nineties and a Urinal sidecar outfit with. three wheel drive. What you have to remember is that in Britain agru=icultural wages were shit and these cars or a pushbike were the options
I wouldn't be surprised if bullet resistance was a secret requirement, with factory workers having a shell of one out the back of the factory, some AK-47's, and a vodka break to take.
I had on for 3 years.. minus 18 centigrade and it just needs a little choke and she starts first turn. The heater was fantastic..and the bumper totald as ford Sierra cosworth off when it went into the back of me.. I just cleaned my bumper with an oily rag .. If you needed to work on the engine you just climed into the engine bay.. then there was the performance.. OK.. not brilliant until I purchased the performance tuning kit from lada..stop laughing..500 pounds fited.. So k&n air filter...twin webber conversion..racing cams and a modified ignition system. And that gave 0 to 60 on 9.4 seconds.. And that in 1992 if you were quick could anoy xr3..xr3i bmw 318 ... or even embarrassed them. With a little more work we got it down to 8.9 seconds and 140 mph. Even more fun is when the police pull you over for speeding.. Do we know how fast we were going Yes officer..and you will laughed out of court when you read what ever you write down on that ticket in court.. On your way
Not quite right about the intended octane rating. 76 was available in the Soviet Union, but really only petrol-powered trucks and buses ran on it. Also old UAZ 4x4s ran on it. But Lada was always designed to run on 92. Fun fact - 87 octane was sold in the Soviet Union and can still be found at servos in Russia these days, though it is rare.
idk if it is nostalgia about those things, but many people seem to remember this as a good, cheap car. My parents had one of these and they kept it basically until i got my driving license all the way in 2005. So you can say it was the first car i learned to drive in, until i got my own first car. The only plus of it was the simplicity. It wasn't dependable at all (as people seem to recall it) - it was just easy to fix. You could disassemble the whole engine in under 3 hours with just the toolkit from the boot which for Clarkson's approval i guess included a hammer. They would pop a problem quite often, but one you could fix yourself, even w/o being a mechanic at the side of the road in 1h. And everything else about the experience was just the worst. Steering, stopping, GUESSING where each gear is. A 1987 Opel Kadett felt like a Rolls Royce next to it. And when from this pile of garbage i jumped on my first car - a G60 VW Corrado it was like i got in a jet plane or Concorde. Even in the 60s and 70s when they were conceived they were really really bad. I've driven old Mercedes and Audis from that era and they are light years ahead.
Sold in Canada too. they where rust buckets. One paint option was rust spots. the metal was so thin that in an accident it wouldn't dent no sir , it would tear. the radio if you were bold enough to get the option would eat up your tapes and catch fire. Hit a bump on uneven roads and the steering came off. the front headlights made of glass would fill up with water and short out. waking up in the morning also meant you had a nice red glow coming off the cigarette lighter and the safest thing about that is the cigarette lighter nob had melted on the carpet and burnt it nicely witch also drained the battery. Duke's of Hazard style doors since they welded shut with the rust or just came off after hitting a pothole. Getting electrocuted by the door handle was awesome cause who doesn't like random electrical shorts. No alarm system needed because the horn would randomly come on in the winter time from that horn rubber on the steering shrinking in the cold. having a tow truck tow you meant you probably were only pulling a front or back axle if you didn't keep an eye on the tow trucks rear view mirror after doing a hundred meters. Would also flood with gas and wouldn't start and when it finally did the piston would explode out the bottom of the oil pan. To much problems to list on here its just nuts.
My family had the exact model for like 23 years, then we sold it for the HUF equivalent of 500 bucks, and bought a Suzuki Ignis Have to say, the Lada was much simpler and easier to operate and had less blind area. Much better than a Trabant
"much simpler and easier to operate" that the actual fuck. You have three pedals and a wheel, thats about it. Shifter yes. so wtf u talking about. If anything I'd say this thing has a much heavier clutch than a suzuki.
Mario D. Zmaj both trucks and sports cars have those as well, I don't think you would act the same when you drive the truck as you drive the coupe. He probably doesn't speak english as his main language, he might have been used the wrong word for that; he may wanted to say "steering"
idk, my dad had a 1990 Samara, it was pretty heavy, and it had duck tape on the steering wheel because the material started peeling off. and the radio was terrible it kept making weired noises. Those communist cars are pretty much a bunch of pieces of shit. Zastava 45 also has heavy steering, but 101 is ok afaik (I was too young to remember my dad's 101) In contrast, when he got Audi 100 god damn...what a difference.
Well, they are hubcaps. You can see the steelies especially in 00:19. And alloy wheels would be too expensive for Egypt. They'd have to sell their pyramids to have OEM alloy wheels fitted on a Lada.
No! Crash safety was a combination of crumple zones, cushioning and strong passenger compartments in addition to speed. At high speeds, it won't matter at all because the change in momentum will be fatal no matter how much cushioning was offered. In the early days of motoring, there are already cars that stayed intact in accidents, but passengers almost always died of blunt force trauma. If she rode in one of these, it would just be more of a closed casket affair even at lower speeds
@@charlesc.9012 wow, thanks for this technical response. My comment was meant to be mocking Mercedes safety. I saw many Mercedes crashes in the 80s and 90s and these cars fell into many small pieces whereas the old Russian cars stayed in a fewer pieces. I mean they seemed more solid, made of thicker steel of something.
@@adamuppsala1931 Yeah, a Mercedes also has a high kerb weight which wears out the rear suspension pretty quickly, and the engine mounts are also biodegradable. They need careful servicing, but those made before the end of the 90s are very good. A lada actually has 0 star crash safety, and made of heavy, low quality steel. When cars rarely weighed 900kg, it weighed over 1000kg. This meant it had awful handling and achieved 23mpg, a Range Rover fuel consumption figure. They also rotted like Alfasuds due to the awful steel once water touched their metal. The number of them you see is solely due to long production runs and many made, in addition to the lack of competition in communist countries, which made them more cared for than the typical runabout. It was an ok car, but someone who has seen the world would genuinely turn their nose up. Including the Brazilians. The early models are 1:1 cosmetic copies of the FIAT 124 designed by Pininfarina, which is why the early ones look so good, that is not unique to the lada Edited for grammar and spelling
that is not true. Datsun based their models (on-DO and mi-DO) on existing Lada models (Granta and Kalina) So.... technically Dutsun is a Japanese Lada.
Except the Lada Riva was not only better built that the crappy Fiat 125 it was based on, but the Lada was also more reliable. Also the Fiat rusted way easier than the Lada.
Back in 80's it was peoples car in Finland. They sold 10 000 Ladas per year. It cost less than 6 month wage. But then came changes in Russia and later russians bought used Ladas one by one and took them Back to USSR. My parents got many Ladas. Two at Time. It was so cheap they bought New one every two year so one was driven 4 years and some 60 000 km. Worked fine, no problems.
My dad had one and he would run it on some kind of white spirit as it was more or less waste from a refining process of a factory nearby. Got it for free. He retarded the ignition slightly and removed the horrible edges in the intake manifold and it would run like the original on petrol. The smell was horrendous but it paid itself of. As long as you had minimal basic tools it would always run. That's the point for Russian woodlands. That's what they need. No roads so no road salt so no rust. You don't need an electronic issue in the middle of nowhere that could cost your life and in the end was a faulty and useless sensor forcing you into limp mode
I can appreciate that Soviet cars actually look pretty decent. Surprisingly, they're not actually ugly. I blame the licensed Italian designs and the American designs they "took inspiration" from.
3 years of wages? no, at least 7 years for a used car and 9+ years for a new one if lucky to buy it. "lucky" is because like everywhere in ussr you have to stand in a queue if you want to buy no matter what. The queue's duration could vary from several hours (if you are buying some cheap s-ty food) up to many years (10 years is an average wait time) if you are buying a s -ty car or waiting for a small s-ty apt to live.
I would take this over a 2CV or god forbid a Mini any day. It may only just outrun a 2CV but you can comfortably seat actual human beings inside it and still have room for groceries! It's still just as easy to fix and just as reliable as the French and British messess of cars, too. Holds up to rust better by the looks of this video! I'd take one of these over a Fiat 500, too, for that matter.
VAZ were testing FIATs in their original configuration before production of the 2103 - those didn't last 200 kilometers on the Soviet roads. The differences between the original FIAT and the VAZ were plenty, and that's from a comparison between Lada 2103 and a Polish FIAT (was the 500 right?) - after all the Polish did make some changes to their version too. The part about longevity of the suspension was a thing from the start of the Soviet automobile industry - the first trucks made by GAZ on a license from Ford had the difference from the originals in the part that the suspension was reinforced.
This is actually such a funny bit. I swear I’d watched every episode of Top Gear but I’ve literally never watched that bit before. Then getting stuck in the car was so funny.
This is good example how people from capitalist economy society don't understand salary point of view and compare something you can't compare like this in this video.
>spicy water
Clarkson was almost two decades ahead of modern meme technology.
Sometimes, he's afraid of his own genius
“Why is it spicy 🥵”
go back
Why are you Jewish
@@weedsmoker4671 I'm not actually, the name is just a reference.
"Imagine that; a 40 year old Italian design, improved by the Russians, and now built by a bunch of Egyptians!" Probably my favorite top gear moment
I doubt the russians improved it. Storey is (from former Soviets) that they bought the entire production line in Italy and moved it directly to Russia. Then proceeded to build it for 30 years. See improvement of consumer items WAS POINTLESS to the communists. Because to them a "car is a car". They were more interested in putting effort into thrir military and international influence. There's no incentive to worry about mere consumer stuff. Only capitalism worries about improving consumer items.
@@OffGridInvestor Not really. They improved it to be cheap and somewhat reliable in the cold. As I read in an old book written by one of the chief engineers at the time, they had to correct about 800-900 small things in the design before they started mass producing them. And it was still very very bad. But hey, at least they make reliable snow beaters
@@xNiceNoNikx well...i don't think they worry about cold and show in egypt :D
@@adamsczech i dunno man, with all this climate change goin round maybe they soon will be worried
the production stopped in Egypt more than 10 years ago .. but still there few lada cars on the streets of course
Socialist republic of South Yorkshire hehe
I live in that shithole and it really is socialist
In the 80's South Yorkshire was full of Ladas because they were cheaper to buy than any British car, people loved them.
They didn't love them. They put up with them because they're faster than bikes or horses.
It’s funny because Clarkson is from Doncaster
@@alistairwalker2850 Aye. He's never been beyond a little self-effacing humour. The opposite of most tv presenters... and politicians.
I love how the last 2010s model year looks almost exactly the same as a 1970s model
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Well, considering Soyuz still look same since 50 years ago.
you cant perfect perfection
Leiam Whittaker noone said fix but improve.
There was nothing wrong with swords and spears and catapults or sails and propeller.
Its just that machine guns and rockets and artillery and nuclear subs and jet fighters are lightyears ahead.
It's like their ideas.
There is always a lada crash in every car crash compilation.
It's funny because it's true 😂
Well not really but i get the joke🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anda the problems are generaly related with the brakes.
correction, everytime there is a crash in russia there is a lada around guaranteed
Yeah, because of their drivers. Lada drivers now in modern Russia are a bit like the US stereotype of little old ladies driving huge old Caddilacs they can barely see over the wheel of, except the Russian ones are drunken old soaks, with few brain cells left. There are plenty of other/modern cheap cars there now.
I worked at a lada dealers back in the 80s . Strangest thing was that I never saw two beige ones exactly the same colour - no pun intended , but literally saw 50 shades of beige . Ladas were superior to the polish FSO as they didn't stink of the fish glue they used to stick the headlining in . I'm being serious .
"50 shades of beige"
>excited Lindybeige noises<
And ah yes fish glue. The VW Beetle was known for that too... probably the least flattering new car smell there is XD.
I owned and drove both, and never smelt that. But I'm guessing that was a new-car-smell issue, and I've never owned a new car in my life until last year, so I avoided that...
These days new cars tend to smell of plastiky cheapness (the '90's VW "Beetle" certainly did), so it probably isn't much of an improvement.
I can't stand that new-car-smell, it's just toxic chemicals to my nose, and quite unpleasant. I left all my windows down every night when my one-and-only new car was garaged overnight - anything to get all the plastic offgassing out of the car. On the basis that only cheaper cars might smell that way, then if anyone ever wants to bring a brand new Roller around to my house for me to smell in comparison, I stand ready.
Should have penned a series of books.....
A car that runs on spicy water....Sounds great I'll take it! :-D
I would too,but sadly it doesn't otherwise it would be very popular arround the world!!
The Lada Riva can and will run on anything that burns. Not a joke. You can run them on lantern kerosene.
Well probably and thats really great,but sadly spicy water doesn't burn! :(
It's a metaphor.
really??i didn't know!!!
P.S. I knew this all the time!!!
LONG LIVE GLORIOUS PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF SOUTH YORKSHIRE!
Socialist
If only.
I used to have one of those. I know all the jokes. But on the plus side, they were reliable ( so little in them that there's not much to go wrong as long as you have a spark and some fuel ), they cold-started better than most other cars of the era ( 42 amp alternator ), the heater was incredible, they didn't dent from minor dings ( 18 gauge steel instead of 23 for some cars, smaller is thicker ), and you could park it in even the scummiest of council estates and know that it'd still be there, and not up on bricks, when you came outside again. They were also very cheap to ensure. On the downside, crappy mpg, dreadful dead-feel steering ( worm and peg instead of rack and pinion ), poor acceleration, rust-prone, and the windows often dropped down into the door panels and required chocking in place with wooden wedges. Good first cars though....
+Ste Cork oops. ensure => insure.
+Ste Cork The engine was so simple you could run them on anything that was combustible. There was stories of people that ran them on kerosene when stuck on a camping trip when they had nothing else. Not that it was efficient or cheap, but it worked for the situation.
they were quite strong, but in Brazil, they overheated a lot, as you can imagine.
You actually made me want a Lada. I live in the US though, so I'll be restrained from this insane idea by the fact that they were never sold here.
Don't let that stop you. Import one!
They left these clips out because it showed that Jezza was having too much fun in the Riva, coming dangerously close to liking it...
I still drive a Lada on daily basis. It was cheap to buy, it's easy to work on it, parts are cheap as if they were for Daewoo Tico, no electronics. I don't need anything else. Kalashnikov among the cars.
Good car, until you can afford something better.
Still more reliable then any English car 🤣
,,So that's like calling today's Maserati Quatrroporte a people's car" 😂
In Yugoslavia we called it poor mans BMW cos of the drivetrain.
Amazing car,still used in rural places.
I remember in the old country(this was some time during the late 1990's) my uncle was giving me a ride to the train station. Every time he hit a small pothole there was a knocking noise coming from the engine bay. I asked what was the knocking noise. He said it was the engine knocking because it wasn't bolted down and he didn't have the money to buy the bolts or they were hard to come by. Anyway, the friggin' lada will run with the engine swirling around like a pancake in the engine bay.
ah yes, the classic hammer test. Clarkson cant drive a car unless it passes his trusty hammer's rigorous testing.
Why do you think his GT kept breaking down? No hammer testing
No, the Ladas were never designed to run on Аи-76, they were designed to run on Аи-92.
Which is Vodka :D
@@matiasfpm No, it's not. My snowblower runs fine on it. And you can't drink it (you'll get pretty sick if you try to).
@@Alex462047 i was joking, i surely would not try that 😁
@@matiasfpm I can't recommend it. Аи-92 tastes like shit, personal experience (I had to syphon the last couple of litres out of a big tank once with a simple garden hose. Fun times!).
Well, i have the honour of owning an 89' Lada Samara as a first car, and she's one hell of a beast. Certainly reliable, cheap, simple, not as good as modern or western cars, but they're alot of fun
“Beast” 🤣🤣👌
Haha lada satana
"That's not petrol, that's spicy wate-heheheheh"
Spicy water
Sounds tasty.
Ok
Here in Egypt, you can go to the grocery store and with the change you can get a replacement brakes for your Lada
Ah rear wheel drive perfection.This was my first car actually
Funny is, that this is an export version, and the export versions were a little better than the cars that were sold in the Soviet countries::D And a person could not just come to a car dealership and buy a car, he had to stand in queie for years:D
Those Ladas aresstill running, how many Austins and Metros haven't fallen apart yet? :)
So are 1960s tractors in my area, for much the same reasons. Extremely simple with no comfort. Heavy as hell with hopeless MPG because of the weight. And the simple engine.
Austins and Metros were cars of a welfare state. In a communistic state, we would still be obliged to drive Austins, Metros, Trabants or T-Fords.
>ladas are still running
Are you an idiot?
"Austins and Metros"
#EpicGrammarFail
That; and the Metro's original engine was legendary for its durability, if not its refinement. A crappy VW gearbox didn't help.
(yup; VW sold Austin a lousy model of gearbox... probably on purpose)
@@jimtaylor294 You're getting mixed up with the Maestro. The Metro was just rebooted Mini with a hatchback. The Maestro had the VW box, later cars had Honda stuff though. Hell the late Maestros were incredibly tough, well built and dependable. The scrappage scheme killed most of them off though, IIRC over 2000 got scrapped during the length of the scheme.
can't stand up to water..................has Jezza seen the fuel flap area of a Ford KA mk1?
Well then again every car that is made of metal instead of plastic has rust so well if it has rust is a great car!!
Or the rear fenders of literally every American pickup truck
I own a Ford Ka THD(True hand drive), 1999. Never experienced rust in fuel filler area :/
I own a Ford Ka 2007, Lots of rust, especially fuel filler cap and under rear windscreen wiper
Or the elusive Toyota Hilux/Pickup/Technical and how the chassis managed to fill itself with water.
Imagine that. A forty year old Italian design, improved by the Russians and now being built by a bunch of Egyptians
**Perfection**
0:08
So, that's how u fix problems with ur lada
Праворульный жигуль... Теперь я видел всё
А дизеля такого видел?
Vitaly Tarnover
пфф, школотрон
Lada была очень популярна в Соединенном Королевстве, поэтому они сделали много автомобилей с правым рулем.
Grew up with a 2101. These cars were amazing if you took care of them: so easy to fix, that and 8 year old could do it and could take a hell of a lot more beating than modern cars. My dad even welded extra supports back when he was a wee lad and I remember getting into an accident where a bloke ran straight into the back of our car- we got by with a broken light and a bent bumper, while the other chap got his entire front bent in. Sadly, as my dad got older he got annoyed of the constantly rusting car body and bough and Audi, which had zinc coating and a hell of a lot more problems that constantly keep popping up.
I do suggest getting a VW,no problems there!!
what can you tell us about 2101?
@@balticpagan1495 Depends on what you want to know.
Ah, the Zhiguli. :) I want one :3
"You see comrade, the reason why the 2101 is so easy to build that an 8 year old can do it is because we have 7 year olds building them."
I used to know a plumber called Dave Savage from Barnsley that had a Lada. I remember him saying he was getting rid of it for a new car... & you guessed it, that car was another Lada! 😂😂 🚽🚗
Must be Lada Niva. It's not bad.
Ladas seem to be very resilient. That's not much rust for an old car. When i went to Chernobyl last year there were several old Lada shells knocking around. All still pretty solid
The climate in the UK is quite unforgivable to rust-prone cars.
But yeah on the Chernobil topic name one western car that will run in conditions of nuclear fallout - after the UK gets what they have been asking for centuries.
0:43 Clarckson made that meme I see
*CLARKSOOOONNN*
Here in finland were a lots of ladas, people loved them, cheap, really tuff and reliable as hell, later all the teenagers loved them because of their beautiful looks and rear wheel drive and cheapness. Sadly eropean union has ruined this country and there is no much ladas anymore, my dad used to have four ladas when I was a kid
@Michael Martinović I love ladas, they are really tuff built, looks very good, rwd, just perfect. In finland we have Lada Club and lada is big part of finland anyways. They used to be on every house's driveway as grocery getter.
Either your childhood was quite long, or they aren't the most reliable thing in the known Universe :)
It's a cockroach that can withstand a unclear blast!!
Killed me
It could withstand a Ukrainian kamikaze drone at least.
"... that's not really petrol, that's spicy water..."
What sticks out to me that they also seem to have replaced the hubcaps with dustbin lids.
1:13 тщкер Ыуф means a lot in Russian
*sarcasm *
Oh yes, famous тщкер Ыуф !
Top Gear's attempt to speak in Kazahk)
@@b4n4n46 Just letter pulp in Kazakh as well.
Что-то мне подсказывает, что это North Sea, набранное на русской раскладке.
@@Adson_von_Melk Ахаха, вы правы. Это действительно north sea на русской раскладке)
Pulling up to a car meet, " Yea, my car runs on spicy water"
Honestly, these cars (like most Soviet civilian goods) are nowhere near as bad as most people made them out to be. Able to survive the harshest environments with little to no regular maintenance with low prices and looking decent all the while. Nothing wrong with that formula.
And the export versions had (afaik) some upgrade components, like tires, and then again the cheap European cars didn't feel like the pinnacle of quality either. I cannot honestly that, say, Opel Corsa A felt any better than a Lada.
The car industry is one of the largest profit markets in the Western world - so no surprise Western car companies tried every cheap and dirty trick (including the car shows they own) to spread their propaganda - if the large capital pays for it, nothing wrong with that. Westeners shouldn't be allowed to comment on cheap automobiles as they deliberately killed that segment in their countries, and most automobiles from the Warsaw pact, Yugoslavia or today from China has zero competition at its price range. But they never tell you this on the car shows, or the service costs aswell.
What is the Difference between a Lada and a golf ball? You can drive a golf ball more than 300 meters.
They just switched the keyboard from Latin to Russian to type out those names
They were great cars, loads of the guys on farms around where we lived in the seventies had Moskvitche's (Remember them?) and Lada's. I had a 4x4 in the nineties and a Urinal sidecar outfit with. three wheel drive. What you have to remember is that in Britain agru=icultural wages were shit and these cars or a pushbike were the options
0:08 *STALINIUM
I wonder how bullet-proof it is (apart from the windows obviously)
I wouldn't be surprised if bullet resistance was a secret requirement, with factory workers having a shell of one out the back of the factory, some AK-47's, and a vodka break to take.
The bullets bounce off of it
Can confirm, I'm from Doncaster and my mum had a Lada Riva
This episode felt like an anti-Communist propaganda film made by the US Government in the 1950's.
Odd.
@Madam Meouff And to be interesting, there ARE some great Chinese cars right now! Google "NIO EP9" and see what comes up.
Im Polish and yeah u can probably find these in our country today 😂😂😂
Also in Slovenia, here and there, but they are extremly rare. I remember we had a FIAT 125p, 1500, my father bought it in 1975 and sold in 1984.
I had on for 3 years.. minus 18 centigrade and it just needs a little choke and she starts first turn. The heater was fantastic..and the bumper totald as ford Sierra cosworth off when it went into the back of me.. I just cleaned my bumper with an oily rag ..
If you needed to work on the engine you just climed into the engine bay.. then there was the performance..
OK.. not brilliant until I purchased the performance tuning kit from lada..stop laughing..500 pounds fited..
So k&n air filter...twin webber conversion..racing cams and a modified ignition system.
And that gave 0 to 60 on 9.4 seconds..
And that in 1992 if you were quick could anoy xr3..xr3i bmw 318 ... or even embarrassed them.
With a little more work we got it down to 8.9 seconds and 140 mph.
Even more fun is when the police pull you over for speeding..
Do we know how fast we were going
Yes officer..and you will laughed out of court when you read what ever you write down on that ticket in court..
On your way
"Spicy Water"
Just like vodka-WAIT A MINUTE
I once heard someone compare the Lada to a kalashnikov And it is do True, it Will run no matter what
Not quite right about the intended octane rating. 76 was available in the Soviet Union, but really only petrol-powered trucks and buses ran on it. Also old UAZ 4x4s ran on it. But Lada was always designed to run on 92.
Fun fact - 87 octane was sold in the Soviet Union and can still be found at servos in Russia these days, though it is rare.
I love how the outtake vid is of higher quality than the original
idk if it is nostalgia about those things, but many people seem to remember this as a good, cheap car. My parents had one of these and they kept it basically until i got my driving license all the way in 2005. So you can say it was the first car i learned to drive in, until i got my own first car. The only plus of it was the simplicity. It wasn't dependable at all (as people seem to recall it) - it was just easy to fix. You could disassemble the whole engine in under 3 hours with just the toolkit from the boot which for Clarkson's approval i guess included a hammer. They would pop a problem quite often, but one you could fix yourself, even w/o being a mechanic at the side of the road in 1h. And everything else about the experience was just the worst. Steering, stopping, GUESSING where each gear is. A 1987 Opel Kadett felt like a Rolls Royce next to it. And when from this pile of garbage i jumped on my first car - a G60 VW Corrado it was like i got in a jet plane or Concorde. Even in the 60s and 70s when they were conceived they were really really bad. I've driven old Mercedes and Audis from that era and they are light years ahead.
Sold in Canada too. they where rust buckets. One paint option was rust spots. the metal was so thin that in an accident it wouldn't dent no sir , it would tear. the radio if you were bold enough to get the option would eat up your tapes and catch fire. Hit a bump on uneven roads and the steering came off. the front headlights made of glass would fill up with water and short out. waking up in the morning also meant you had a nice red glow coming off the cigarette lighter and the safest thing about that is the cigarette lighter nob had melted on the carpet and burnt it nicely witch also drained the battery. Duke's of Hazard style doors since they welded shut with the rust or just came off after hitting a pothole. Getting electrocuted by the door handle was awesome cause who doesn't like random electrical shorts. No alarm system needed because the horn would randomly come on in the winter time from that horn rubber on the steering shrinking in the cold. having a tow truck tow you meant you probably were only pulling a front or back axle if you didn't keep an eye on the tow trucks rear view mirror after doing a hundred meters. Would also flood with gas and wouldn't start and when it finally did the piston would explode out the bottom of the oil pan. To much problems to list on here its just nuts.
Это касается любой машины за которой нет должного ухода.
"That's just spicy water"
My family had the exact model for like 23 years, then we sold it for the HUF equivalent of 500 bucks, and bought a Suzuki Ignis
Have to say, the Lada was much simpler and easier to operate and had less blind area. Much better than a Trabant
"much simpler and easier to operate" that the actual fuck. You have three pedals and a wheel, thats about it. Shifter yes. so wtf u talking about. If anything I'd say this thing has a much heavier clutch than a suzuki.
Mario D. Zmaj both trucks and sports cars have those as well, I don't think you would act the same when you drive the truck as you drive the coupe. He probably doesn't speak english as his main language, he might have been used the wrong word for that; he may wanted to say "steering"
those old cars have very heavy steering, so I doubt thats what he ment
Yeah, but I figured out the Lada has fairly good on that than it peers.
idk, my dad had a 1990 Samara, it was pretty heavy, and it had duck tape on the steering wheel because the material started peeling off. and the radio was terrible it kept making weired noises. Those communist cars are pretty much a bunch of pieces of shit. Zastava 45 also has heavy steering, but 101 is ok afaik (I was too young to remember my dad's 101) In contrast, when he got Audi 100 god damn...what a difference.
A new car that costs three times more than the annual wage.....
Ah yes. Just like here in the United Kingdom.
Comrade Clarkson
I love how you can see the zip ties on the wheels to produce the hubcap effect.
Well, they are hubcaps. You can see the steelies especially in 00:19. And alloy wheels would be too expensive for Egypt. They'd have to sell their pyramids to have OEM alloy wheels fitted on a Lada.
you forgot to mention my bloody country, Hungary. we were full of these wrecks. apparently, still some around. rolling coffins.
Don`t laugh at that fresh rally winner in Finland! Lada won its class.
If Diana had travelled in such a car, she would still be alive today.
😂😂😂👍
Ehh no
No! Crash safety was a combination of crumple zones, cushioning and strong passenger compartments in addition to speed. At high speeds, it won't matter at all because the change in momentum will be fatal no matter how much cushioning was offered.
In the early days of motoring, there are already cars that stayed intact in accidents, but passengers almost always died of blunt force trauma. If she rode in one of these, it would just be more of a closed casket affair even at lower speeds
@@charlesc.9012 wow, thanks for this technical response. My comment was meant to be mocking Mercedes safety. I saw many Mercedes crashes in the 80s and 90s and these cars fell into many small pieces whereas the old Russian cars stayed in a fewer pieces. I mean they seemed more solid, made of thicker steel of something.
@@adamuppsala1931 Yeah, a Mercedes also has a high kerb weight which wears out the rear suspension pretty quickly, and the engine mounts are also biodegradable. They need careful servicing, but those made before the end of the 90s are very good.
A lada actually has 0 star crash safety, and made of heavy, low quality steel. When cars rarely weighed 900kg, it weighed over 1000kg. This meant it had awful handling and achieved 23mpg, a Range Rover fuel consumption figure. They also rotted like Alfasuds due to the awful steel once water touched their metal.
The number of them you see is solely due to long production runs and many made, in addition to the lack of competition in communist countries, which made them more cared for than the typical runabout.
It was an ok car, but someone who has seen the world would genuinely turn their nose up. Including the Brazilians. The early models are 1:1 cosmetic copies of the FIAT 124 designed by Pininfarina, which is why the early ones look so good, that is not unique to the lada
Edited for grammar and spelling
Now i want a Lada...
Paul iceman in latvia we call it a žigulis
Or žvinga
get a fiat
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Americans: gasoline
Brits: petrol
Russians: spicy water
Rust? How about comparing it to any of British cars? :D
I'd rather wait at the side of the road in a mini, than drive a lada.
I love seeing the wheels wobble
the Lada is a russian datsun
Only a lot more reliable/safe/good looking/allterrain!!
@@thesilentg3941 not really but they werent bad
Meh, I kinda like the Datsuns design , I'd say the Datsun runs slightly better than A Lada.
@@thesilentg3941I drove a Lada in Cuba , I much rather have the Datsun...
that is not true. Datsun based their models (on-DO and mi-DO) on existing Lada models (Granta and Kalina)
So.... technically Dutsun is a Japanese Lada.
Actually this is made of pure 100% *STALINIUM*
Absolutely incredible car it’s a scrap of metal with wheels it’s just the perfect car it’s reliable and cheap what more do you want
ahh that is why we have a lot of Ladas in Egypt.
Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire - best Clarkson line ever hhhh
I lived in Poland in the early 70's, they looked pretty much the same then. Most of the taxis were Ladas.
Egypt's favourite car ❤️❤️
This is not car, it is Soviet tank!
He's talking about the rust.
As if British cars don't rust. Not to say they're worse
Except the Lada Riva was not only better built that the crappy Fiat 125 it was based on, but the Lada was also more reliable. Also the Fiat rusted way easier than the Lada.
I like the Lada Riva. I've always found it very interesting.
South Yorkshire might as well be it’s own country
I have 40 year old soviet tractor, there is no rust on it
Very good for deep villages - easy for repair directly at road. Very cheep.
Man that's a tough car.
Back in 80's it was peoples car in Finland. They sold 10 000 Ladas per year. It cost less than 6 month wage. But then came changes in Russia and later russians bought used Ladas one by one and took them Back to USSR.
My parents got many Ladas. Two at Time. It was so cheap they bought New one every two year so one was driven 4 years and some 60 000 km. Worked fine, no problems.
My dad had one and he would run it on some kind of white spirit as it was more or less waste from a refining process of a factory nearby. Got it for free. He retarded the ignition slightly and removed the horrible edges in the intake manifold and it would run like the original on petrol. The smell was horrendous but it paid itself of. As long as you had minimal basic tools it would always run. That's the point for Russian woodlands. That's what they need. No roads so no road salt so no rust. You don't need an electronic issue in the middle of nowhere that could cost your life and in the end was a faulty and useless sensor forcing you into limp mode
Man... the wheels look like they might fall off at any time
Now Lada is owned by the French, now sure how it can get any worse.
I can appreciate that Soviet cars actually look pretty decent. Surprisingly, they're not actually ugly. I blame the licensed Italian designs and the American designs they "took inspiration" from.
Well...
People in Yugoslavia had about 5 times the annual wage than the people in the USSR
3 years of wages? no, at least 7 years for a used car and 9+ years for a new one if lucky to buy it. "lucky" is because like everywhere in ussr you have to stand in a queue if you want to buy no matter what. The queue's duration could vary from several hours (if you are buying some cheap s-ty food) up to many years (10 years is an average wait time) if you are buying a s -ty car or waiting for a small s-ty apt to live.
I would take this over a 2CV or god forbid a Mini any day.
It may only just outrun a 2CV but you can comfortably seat actual human beings inside it and still have room for groceries!
It's still just as easy to fix and just as reliable as the French and British messess of cars, too. Holds up to rust better by the looks of this video!
I'd take one of these over a Fiat 500, too, for that matter.
VAZ were testing FIATs in their original configuration before production of the 2103 - those didn't last 200 kilometers on the Soviet roads. The differences between the original FIAT and the VAZ were plenty, and that's from a comparison between Lada 2103 and a Polish FIAT (was the 500 right?) - after all the Polish did make some changes to their version too.
The part about longevity of the suspension was a thing from the start of the Soviet automobile industry - the first trucks made by GAZ on a license from Ford had the difference from the originals in the part that the suspension was reinforced.
All gauges were broken in 6 months (oil, temp, etc) but other than that pretty reliable
In Mother Russia, We don't have water... We have Ice. Lada Survive ice.
Lada is a car for poeple blyat, it survieves grizzly attacks and evry other driver on da stret... blyat
GLORY TO RUSSIA, BLYAT
NOE 2 GB MINI COEPR
Szajong mini cooper is german m8
Товарищ you are right!
These сука's just don't understand
liam
Is not funny comrade.
Is truth.
Деьил сука
Mini started in the UK but it was bought by a German company. Still, Mini is an iconic british car maker
Eddie Brooks
Блин
The lada perfect from the begining
This is actually such a funny bit. I swear I’d watched every episode of Top Gear but I’ve literally never watched that bit before. Then getting stuck in the car was so funny.
Can you imagine buying this brand new in 2010...................
My beloved wife swapped a mk1 Escort for a Riva estate. Deep sigh.....
ВАЗ 2104 was a very good utility car.
My dad's car was 2101, I learned to drive on 2106. I'll make sure my son will never drive any Lada.
This is good example how people from capitalist economy society don't understand salary point of view and compare something you can't compare like this in this video.
Cheeki breeki
One of my top three episodes
they drop those cars on zombies and head crabs.... thats their best use