Comments on: Remembering The Russian Lada Classic

By: brokenreef

brokenreef — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:34:00 +0000

Haiti-1981- I bought a LADA for $4500.00 new. Drove it for seven years on mountain roads and re-sold it for $3500.00 five years later. It was immaculate, clean,but clumsy on
deep ruts and slow on power. The transmission was stable, however I recall tearing down the motor for a rebuild way too early. It ran well there-after. Most of the LADA’S in seem Haiti to have fractured and perhaps evolved to other forms of metal. (nothing is wasted in Haiti.) My Lada came brand new with beer bottle caps (of Russian origin) under the carpeted interior and in the “boot”. I added a few from Barbancourt, Haiti.

By: The World's Geo Quiz

The World's Geo Quiz — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:08:00 +0000

Indeed that’s where the company AvtoVaz is headquartered. Some manufacturing there too. But the plant in Izhevsk reportedly produced the last Lada Classic. Thanks !

By: Yuriy Goykhman

Yuriy Goykhman — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:24:00 +0000

As far as I remember Ladas are made in Tolyatti Russia, not Izhevsk!

By: Mary-Jeanine Ibarguen

Mary-Jeanine Ibarguen — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:55:00 +0000

I have a nice Lada story. When we visited family in Iceland in 1992, they let us borrow their extra car for a few weeks. It was a Lada and they had several (we got the impression the cars were easy to work on). So here were are, Americans in a Lada, driving the back roads of Iceland. We hit a bumpy patch in the dirt road and the Lada came to a stop in front of a farm. The farm family came out to talk to us, invited us in for afternoon tea (which means a table full of homemade sweets and hot tea) and made conversation. Except for the father. He was the only one in the family without a full grasp of the English language. On a farm. On an island. Iceland is a very literate, educated society! PS: they replaced the oil pan and off we went!