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A Lada Towing Another Lada is a Very Bad Omen…
You don't need know all the jokes concerning Russia's most notorious car model to figure out that something is bound to happen when you see one Lada Riva (also called Classic, 2105 and Nova among other names) towing another Riva on the road… Are you curious to find out what happened? Sure you are. Hop on past the jump to watch the YouTube clip.
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Lada Design Boss Wants To Follow Kia's Example And Turn Around The Brand’s Styling
What car do you think of when you say the word Lada? I for one think of the boxy Fiat 124-based Lada 1500 (known as the VAZ-2105 in Russia) which was produced between 1980 and 2012. Apparently, AvtoVAZ design director Steve Mattin wants to change this...
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Ukrainian Driver And Passenger See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Know Nothing After Crash…
If you were to begin viewing this video from the 20-second mark and on, you would be excused to think that the driver and his passenger simply parked their beaten up Lada Riva Estate (VAZ-2107) in the middle of the road and left to go on to their work...
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Lada Station Wagon Flies Into A Snow Bank
For some strange reason, certain Russian owners of Lada's classic Riva series believe that their car is an invisible machine on wheels built for extreme speeds. Like this driver of a station wagon version of the Riva who thought it would be a great...
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Lada Gets Dizzy From Going In Circles And Falls On Its Side
While it may feature a rear wheel drive arrangement, the lack of ponies under the Lada Riva's (or 2105) bonnet makes spinning its tail a tiresome act for any driver. This man tried his best but at the end, the Russian sedan just gave up and fell...
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This Ain't A Joke: Russia's Lada To Sponsor Renault F1 Racing Team
Remember all the classic Lada jokes of the 80s and 90s of the sort that one could crank out endlessly because the patterns are so reliable? Jokes like these: "What do you call a classic Skoda? A Lada" and "What do you call the shock absorbers...
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