@valis6761 Die Qualität ist in den Jahren seit ca. 2015 sehr viel besser geworden. Zu der Zeit hat Bo Andersson das Lada Herstellerwerk Avtovaz geleitet und neue Qualitätsstandarts, v.a. auch für die Zulieferteile eingeführt.
I never liked comments based on ideologic prejudice. Lada cars from the beginning were a huge export success because customers received very reliable quality, free of gimmicks. There were many West-European cars around which could not cope with them. However, since these cars were made by the evil Communists, they MUST be horrible. I not only grew up with Ladas in East-Germany, I am also a German engineer looking at products totally without emotions. And yes, they were nice and cool cars for their time. Peace! from Dresden / Germany
The Fiat124 based Lada WAS2101 and its slightly different luxurious variants were the most ever built standard passenger car in terms of production numbers, even by-passing the VW beetle. The design was slightly beefed up for Soviet driving conditions, lack of service stations and climate zones. It was extremely reliable. The factory and its machinery was all imported with the support of Fiat of Italy. My family owned two of them, each for 10 years clocking up large milage. They never broke down; we drove it multiple times from Germany to Georgia (then USSR) and back during our summer school breaks. The never missed a beat, although totally over-loaded, on permanent rough roads, questionable petrol quality and very mountainous road profiles (Caucasus mountain range). Our first 2101 still had "Made-in-Italy" parts assembled, it was one of the very first ones manufactured. Lada cars had their own Soviet designed engine (not the Fiat engine) because the compression would be too high for the considered domestic and export markets with their low-rated gasoline quality there. This engine; I read once, was based on a four-cylinder inline post WW2 Mercedes engine, but I cannot prove it. Based on this success, the Niva was a complete home-grown design now but by using as many components from the 2101-model. Even the door handles were identical. Many consider it the prime father of all SUVs (you might questioning this historically but it was indeed one of the very first ones following this idea); a combination of a compact passenger car with a 4x4 drive. It too also was an instant and huge success aat home and internationally. It was exported into all continents: I've seen them in Africa, many parts of Asia, ANYWHERE in Europe but also many of them in S.-America, NZ and Australia. Once I visited the Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific and they drove me around in a Niva to look at their special stone men statues at the beach and elsewhere. To claim this is a rare car is actually, well, really really wrong by global standards. All Ladas were though built because in the USSR and its crazy geography and climate zones (subtropical to arctic) your life often heavily depended on the reliability of these cars. They also could be repaired almost with no special tools required. The 2101 even had cranks in their toolset to crank-start your car if needed. My Dad tried it once and it fired up. Dead battery at -25dgr. C? No worries. Crank it up and off you go. Restore this little beast properly and it will never let you down as long as you keep up with a little of regular but simple maintenance. Wax all the hollow body parts and the underneath floor truly (as we did always immediately after buying) as soon as the body work is completed and you'll have a life-long friend. Enjoy the ride! Cheers and peace! from Dresden / Germany
Thanks for all the info! These are super rare here in the Canadian prairies. I've only seen one on the roads in the last 25 years. Our climate is similar to USSR, brutal cold in winter to -40. I wish I had the crank handle as I would like to try crank starting it. I have another video coming out in a few days. If I get good feedback I will continue to make videos on it. But I do intend on getting it fixed and running again and enjoy it.
I know, right! The ES has been flawless over 47,000km and we traded the RAV4 Prime in on a new one this past January. It's also been flawless. I really should do a few more vehicle videos...
In Deutschland wurden bis 2022 jedes Jahr so ca. 2000 Stück davon verkauft. Er hat tolle Eigenschaften im Gelände und (mit guten Winterreifen) auf Schnee. Ich habe so einen Niva 4x4 (Baujahr 2011) und einen modernen Lada Vesta SW Cross (2019). Viele Grüße aus Bayern/Deutschland 😊
Das ist so cool, ich glaube, der Verkauf hier in Kanada wurde 1998 eingestellt. Ich wünschte, sie würden sie noch länger verkaufen, sie sind hier sehr selten. Danke fürs Zuschauen.
@@InternetDude very good. All you really need is a 2" suspension lift and a good set of mud tires. 15" Suzuki wheels give you more tire size options. 195/80/15 work best and still give good clearance. 👍
The ES and RAV4 have been flawless. I have purchased two other cars since the last year too, but they have had their share of issues. I think I will post more car videos and update folks.
Oh yes, and the way the hood opens was a very Italian and FIAT-ish way of designing them. The idea came from the race tracks. If a hood opens this way it would not pop open by bad aerodynamics on the high-speed race track, so sports cars of this period often had such hood styles (avoiding those ugly extra outer rubber or metal clamps you can see on older race track machines). So FIAT made this a kind of design feature for all their cars in the 1960/70: 124, 125, 127, 128, 131 models - they all open their hood this way. However, aerodynamics under high speed are probably not your major concern with a NIVA 🙂until you need to try to get away from this hungry grizzly in the Canadian woods. Cheers & peace! from Dresden / Germany
One of the worst cars ever !
No way
Genau! Hüte dich vor blonden Frauen und Autos die die Russen bauen!🫣 Grüsse aus east-germany!
@valis6761 Die Qualität ist in den Jahren seit ca. 2015 sehr viel besser geworden. Zu der Zeit hat Bo Andersson das Lada Herstellerwerk Avtovaz geleitet und neue Qualitätsstandarts, v.a. auch für die Zulieferteile eingeführt.
I never liked comments based on ideologic prejudice.
Lada cars from the beginning were a huge export success because customers received very reliable quality, free of gimmicks.
There were many West-European cars around which could not cope with them. However, since these cars were made by the evil Communists, they MUST be horrible.
I not only grew up with Ladas in East-Germany, I am also a German engineer looking at products totally without emotions. And yes, they were nice and cool cars for their time.
Peace! from Dresden / Germany
Top Gear said the Lexus SC430 was the worst car ever 😮😢😅 that's even harder to believe@@InternetDude
Great commentary! Viper style hood 😂
The Fiat124 based Lada WAS2101 and its slightly different luxurious variants were the most ever built standard passenger car in terms of production numbers, even by-passing the VW beetle.
The design was slightly beefed up for Soviet driving conditions, lack of service stations and climate zones. It was extremely reliable. The factory and its machinery was all imported with the support of Fiat of Italy.
My family owned two of them, each for 10 years clocking up large milage. They never broke down; we drove it multiple times from Germany to Georgia (then USSR) and back during our summer school breaks. The never missed a beat, although totally over-loaded, on permanent rough roads, questionable petrol quality and very mountainous road profiles (Caucasus mountain range).
Our first 2101 still had "Made-in-Italy" parts assembled, it was one of the very first ones manufactured.
Lada cars had their own Soviet designed engine (not the Fiat engine) because the compression would be too high for the considered domestic and export markets with their low-rated gasoline quality there. This engine; I read once, was based on a four-cylinder inline post WW2 Mercedes engine, but I cannot prove it.
Based on this success, the Niva was a complete home-grown design now but by using as many components from the 2101-model. Even the door handles were identical.
Many consider it the prime father of all SUVs (you might questioning this historically but it was indeed one of the very first ones following this idea); a combination of a compact passenger car with a 4x4 drive.
It too also was an instant and huge success aat home and internationally. It was exported into all continents: I've seen them in Africa, many parts of Asia, ANYWHERE in Europe but also many of them in S.-America, NZ and Australia.
Once I visited the Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific and they drove me around in a Niva to look at their special stone men statues at the beach and elsewhere.
To claim this is a rare car is actually, well, really really wrong by global standards.
All Ladas were though built because in the USSR and its crazy geography and climate zones (subtropical to arctic) your life often heavily depended on the reliability of these cars.
They also could be repaired almost with no special tools required. The 2101 even had cranks in their toolset to crank-start your car if needed. My Dad tried it once and it fired up. Dead battery at -25dgr. C? No worries. Crank it up and off you go.
Restore this little beast properly and it will never let you down as long as you keep up with a little of regular but simple maintenance.
Wax all the hollow body parts and the underneath floor truly (as we did always immediately after buying) as soon as the body work is completed and you'll have a life-long friend. Enjoy the ride!
Cheers and peace! from Dresden / Germany
Thanks for all the info! These are super rare here in the Canadian prairies. I've only seen one on the roads in the last 25 years. Our climate is similar to USSR, brutal cold in winter to -40. I wish I had the crank handle as I would like to try crank starting it. I have another video coming out in a few days. If I get good feedback I will continue to make videos on it. But I do intend on getting it fixed and running again and enjoy it.
Believe it or not I have seen one before! Welcome back to your own channel man
I know, right?! It's been a while!
Long time no see, InternetDude. How are the other cars, the ES300h and the RAV4 Prime?
I know, right! The ES has been flawless over 47,000km and we traded the RAV4 Prime in on a new one this past January. It's also been flawless. I really should do a few more vehicle videos...
In Deutschland wurden bis 2022 jedes Jahr so ca. 2000 Stück davon verkauft.
Er hat tolle Eigenschaften im Gelände und (mit guten Winterreifen) auf Schnee.
Ich habe so einen Niva 4x4 (Baujahr 2011) und einen modernen Lada Vesta SW Cross (2019). Viele Grüße aus Bayern/Deutschland 😊
Das ist so cool, ich glaube, der Verkauf hier in Kanada wurde 1998 eingestellt. Ich wünschte, sie würden sie noch länger verkaufen, sie sind hier sehr selten. Danke fürs Zuschauen.
I owned one for about 5 years and used offroad days with my local club. It would go anywhere a standard Land rover did.
Nice, I hear they are great offroad
@@InternetDude very good. All you really need is a 2" suspension lift and a good set of mud tires. 15" Suzuki wheels give you more tire size options. 195/80/15 work best and still give good clearance. 👍
En France on en a vu beaucoup.
Ils sont extrêmement rares ici
A year later damn. Long time no see. How have you and your other cars been. The hood is a clamshell hood
The ES and RAV4 have been flawless. I have purchased two other cars since the last year too, but they have had their share of issues. I think I will post more car videos and update folks.
Looking forward to that, enjoy hearing about your vehicle journeys
uHaven't saw one for a hell of a long time. 20 years at least. There were a few in the UK back in the day.
I think I’ve seen exactly one on the road in the last 25 years, I just about fell out of my car when I saw it driving.
Robusto, fiable y estéticamente inalterable.
👍
Nous en avons eu un pendant 5 ans en 1982 au Quebec
Cool! Celui-ci était à l'origine vendu en Ontario ou au Québec.
Oh yes, and the way the hood opens was a very Italian and FIAT-ish way of designing them.
The idea came from the race tracks. If a hood opens this way it would not pop open by bad aerodynamics on the high-speed race track, so sports cars of this period often had such hood styles (avoiding those ugly extra outer rubber or metal clamps you can see on older race track machines).
So FIAT made this a kind of design feature for all their cars in the 1960/70: 124, 125, 127, 128, 131 models - they all open their hood this way.
However, aerodynamics under high speed are probably not your major concern with a NIVA 🙂until you need to try to get away from this hungry grizzly in the Canadian woods.
Cheers & peace! from Dresden / Germany
I'm not sure what the top speed is on this Niva but I'm sure it's not too high.
Vous pariez quoi ? Mon voisin en a une qu'il laisse stationner dehors toute l'année.
Je pense que cela fonctionnera, j'ai une autre vidéo qui sortira vendredi où j'inspecte l'intérieur du moteur.
Это нива это русский джип