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Lada Samara Hits a Wall -Literally- While Trying to Drift
Getting together with your pals at night at a local supermarket's parking lot to film your drifting efforts sounds like a very cool idea until you mess up and find yourself the star on YouTube. The young driver tries to turn around the (front-wheel drive) Lada Samara hatchback's tail a couple of times using the small pools of water on the lot as a skid pad.
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Russian Biker Avoids One Accident, Turns Around And Gets Into Another…
It looks like fate didn't want this Russian motorcyclist to come out unscathed from his ride. The biker was travelling on the road when the driver of an older generation Lada Samara made a careless U-turn without checking if any vehicles or motorcycles...
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Driver Startled By Car Stopping At A Pedestrian Crossing, Makes A Run For It
As we have seen more times than we care to remember, slowing down at a zebra crossing is something not all Russian drivers are accustomed to, which leads to myriads of accidents like this one. Only difference here is that after seemingly smashing into...
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Lada Employs Active Aero Hood To Come To A Stop
It looks like AvtoVAZ engineers were way ahead of their time when developing the Lada Samara hatchback, as you can see in this enlightening video that shows an example of the three door model making use of its hood as an active aero brake to slow it...
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Audi R8 Drifts, Smashes Into Lada Rolling It Over, Then Runs Away From The Scene
There seems to be no end in sight to the crazy stories from the wild, wild East that is Russia's roads. Today, one of our readers tipped us off about this footage showing an Audi R8 making a very quick U-turn on a central road, somewhere in Russia....
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In Russia, You Make The Wheel Start The Car [video]
It's often said that "necessity is the mother of invention" and who knows more about necessity than the owner(s) of a Lada Samara hatchback? These good 'ol crafty Russian chaps found a rather unusual way to start their car that had...
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