Anyone still owns / drives LADA?
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We used to have a Lada estate.....biggest brand new car we could get at the time that let us fit a pram and a buggy into it with all our hiking kit too. Took the kids bikes later on as well.
We called her Bertha
Utterly reliable, just quietly chuntered along on every family outing. Flitted our entire household of goods too when we moved.
She's up on a croft now, still shifting sheep.
Not bad for a car over forty years old.
We called her Bertha
Utterly reliable, just quietly chuntered along on every family outing. Flitted our entire household of goods too when we moved.
She's up on a croft now, still shifting sheep.
Not bad for a car over forty years old.
That is absolutly true. When you press the "pedal to the metal" the engine almost dies. You had to slowly press down accelerations pedal. And I remeber it being reliable in the winter as for cold starting.Ah, lada, acceleration capabilities of a dead fish.
Back in the 80s early 90s I went from one boyfriend who's fuego I used to drive(wheelspins my speciality) to a boyfriend with a lada. I remember being stuck for ages at a road junction to a busy main road at rush hour, knowing I just didn't have the umph to pull out into the traffic with a right turn. Ended up turning left, and driving over a mile to a roundabout , to be able to do the right turn!
It was a tank. Reliable, fairly comfy, but oh so ponderous! Especially after that fiesty fuego!
It was a tank. Reliable, fairly comfy, but oh so ponderous! Especially after that fiesty fuego!
You must have had different ladas. Bertha was fine. 1500 engine and she took off easily in traffic.
No bother starting in the cold.....the Russians had even supplied a Winter tool kit, complete with great big hand crank thing, which to be honest was pristine 'cos we never used it.
Big clunky car, but fine.
We had a Honda Accord after that, and it was a pain to start when it was icy cold here, especially if the car had been sitting in the garage for a week.
No bother starting in the cold.....the Russians had even supplied a Winter tool kit, complete with great big hand crank thing, which to be honest was pristine 'cos we never used it.
Big clunky car, but fine.
We had a Honda Accord after that, and it was a pain to start when it was icy cold here, especially if the car had been sitting in the garage for a week.
I would prefer cars like the old LADA, simple, rugged and easy to maintain. Now they all seem to have disappeared. These LADA cars would be now difficult to get hold of, and price would not be cheap either. How about finding the parts?
My Hyundai Kona seems to have lots of the digital gadgets, and is reliable, but expensive to service, and not as fun to drive as the old simpler cars.
My Hyundai Kona seems to have lots of the digital gadgets, and is reliable, but expensive to service, and not as fun to drive as the old simpler cars.
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There was a point in the late nineties where they started to attract money out of all proportion to their sensible value, even total scrappers. Most of those in the UK disappeared then.
Dealers were buying them up and exporting them as parts to the CIS where there were still millions on the road. The factories had converted to making western vehicles, mostly VW IIRC, which your average Lada owner couldn't afford, so parts attracted a premium.
Dealers were buying them up and exporting them as parts to the CIS where there were still millions on the road. The factories had converted to making western vehicles, mostly VW IIRC, which your average Lada owner couldn't afford, so parts attracted a premium.
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