LADA Samara Sedan Models

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LADA Samara 4 Doors (1984 - 2004)

This is the sedan version of the Sputnik, as it was known in Russia, the first one of the Samara line to be available for sale. It used the name Samara only on foreign markets, after a city in Russia. Although it was designed as a more modern version of the outdated Riva, the Samara was plagued by technical problems such as the "di... Continue reading →

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▶ Russians Fix Broken Wipers By Pulling Them With String [Video]

We’ve kind of given the story away right from the title, but this video was so funny we thought it needed to grab your attention. Proving that Russian ingenuity is as bottomless as their vodka appetite, two guys fixed their Lada’s windshield wiper problem with a piece of string. Because why spend money... Continue Reading →

▶ Watch Jenson Button Handling a Lada [Video]

Competing for almost all Formula One major teams in a total of 234 races, Jenson Button comes with a lot of driving experience and he was recently invited at a safety campaign event to put his talent at work in an old-school Lada. The Vodafone sponsored safety campaign was held near Budapest at the Driving Camp Hu... Continue Reading →

Road Swallows Another Car in Russia

Last month, we told about the story of a Russian town called Samara. As the ground started to melt in spring, it swallowed up cars and even larger vehicles like they were nothing. English Russia recently published photos of yet another incident which happened there. A water pipe burst and the asphalt over it caved... Continue Reading →

▶ Aggressive Ukrainian Driver Gets Beaten and Retreats Behind His Mom [Video]

After getting beaten by the guys he attacked, an Ukrainian driver calls mommy for help. First of all, we want to apologize if you find this clip too violent - it depicts three men fighting in traffic, so don’t let your children watch it. Second, you have to watch it because it gets funny near the end. So... Continue Reading →

Russia Makes Its Own Lada Sandero

Several renderings from Russian car maker AvtoVaz (Lada) have surfaced on the internet lately. The cars look striking similar with the brand new Dacia Sandero supermini, which it basically is. It seems that not only Europeans like the new Sandero, even the Russians sympathizes it, and because AvtoVaz is somehow re... Continue Reading →

▶ Drifting Lada Fails Brutally [Video]

If you want to learn how to drift, you need a proper car for the job. The rule is simple, light rear-wheel drive car and over 170 hp is what you need to start in the business. This Russian though took his FWD Lada in the parking lot at night, thinking he could have some fun in that pile of junk. He thought he will... Continue Reading →

▶ Lada is Not a Racer - Fail [Video]

With most of the snow melted in some Russian regions, the people there started to regain confidence and are driving faster. Take this guy for example, the owner of a battered old Lada. He is so enthusiastic about the sunny weather and the dry roads that he totally forgot he drives a poor old Lada with no sporty ca... Continue Reading →

Sean Kingston Getting Ready for His Own Lamborghini Aventador

A little late to the party perhaps, but another rapper/singer has joined the uber-Lambo club. We're talking about 23 year-old Sean Kingston, who says he's "almost ready!"… presumably to buy a car like this one, an Aventador he posted on his Instagram account. We did a little digging and ... Continue Reading →

▶ Don’t Drift Your Lada Near a Lake! [Video]

The classic Lada is easily one of the least sporty cars one could ever conceive of buying. It may be rear-wheel driven, but it`s as far away from being a driver’s car as one could get. However, its 1.5-liter engine is still powerful enough to be able to spin the wheels on grass, or other not-so-grippy surfac... Continue Reading →

▶ Mound of Snow Spells the End of the Journey for Lada Driver [Video]

For a brief period last year, we were getting lots of very scary failed overtaking videos from Russia, where drivers chose the worst possible moments to pass another car. This is the first one of the kind we have posted in a while, and it is as unexplainable as they have always been. The driver of a classic Lada e... Continue Reading →