Lada goes out of production...

davet82

Russian firm AvtoVAZ have scrapped the “classic” boxy model launched in 1970, 20million of which were sold worldwide. Anyone actually own one?

And can I have your best Lada jokes one last time...


Rust in peace :P

gcgirl

Ah always wanted to drive a Lada seriously tough car and possible better than a few big named cars

Snowie

I had a lada niva jeep :cool:

hoodwinked

My granda had a Lada back in the 80's!

Kerrydude1981

A man goes into a service-station and asks "Can I have a windscreen-wiper for my Lada"Okay"replied the man in the garage, "it seems a fair swap"

How do you avoid speeding tickets?
Buy a Lada

biko

From AH.

MidlandsM

I always faniced getting LAID in a LADA!

biko

Had a Lada crash into the back of my Volvo in Germany once.
Lada written off, Volvo had some paint on the fender.

who the fug

Remember me uncle came back from the UK with one in the eighties, and my father and my other uncles were like Ooh that a 1950 whatever.

For once I was glad we lived in the middle of the bog, up a mountain in middle of Ballygobackwards

ShadowHearth

biko wrote: »

Had a Lada crash into the back of my Volvo in Germany once.
Lada written off, Volvo had some paint on the fender.

Anything that goes VS old Volvo will be scraped. Old Volvos are tanks. Few friends who were breaking cars hated to work on old Volvos. If normal car had 1 screw for that particular part, then Volvo would have 4, just to be on a safe side.
I know ladas are rubbish, amd newer ones are rubbish too, but keep in mind that prices of brand new Lada is a lot less thn anything else in Russia.

Atlantic Dawn

I would love to see the crash test videos of them, pure metal and none of your fancy crumple zones or airbags.

Leonard Hofstadter

Another 'Lada joke':

What do you call the owners manual of a Lada? A bus timetable!

spiggotpaddy

Imagine trying to keep one on the road today. I think I was getting about ten MPG out of mine around town. Weighing in at about the same as a T-64 and a big fat carburettor, with a main jet the size of the hadron collider.

Luckycharms_74

New Lada's



New Lada Concept Cars

davet82

WHAT’S the difference between a Jehovah’s Witness and a Lada? You can shut the door on a Jehovah’s Witness.

WHAT do you call a Lada at the top of a hill? A miracle.

WHAT do you call the shock absorbers on a Lada? Passengers.

dahamsta

I have to confess I quite liked the original Lada Niva. Better than some of the 2WD nonsense for fashion victims these days anyway.

Mr Benevolent

davet82 wrote: »

WHAT’S the difference between a Jehovah’s Witness and a Lada? You can shut the door on a Jehovah’s Witness.

WHAT do you call a Lada at the top of a hill? A miracle.

WHAT do you call the shock absorbers on a Lada? Passengers.

These used to be all Skoda jokes until they brought out the Octavia:

no1beemerfan

davet82 wrote: »

WHAT do you call a Lada at the top of a hill? A miracle.

I can believe this one! When I was in primary school a friend's parents had a Lada....anyways on one of his birthday parties about 7 of us (1 in passenger seat and 6 in the back - this was the 80s!) crammed into the car to go back to his place after school. They live at the top of a steep hill and the car wouldn't go up the hill until some of us got out! Not sure if it was the car or his mother as she is the worst driver I know!

I have a soft spot for them though, but watching the Russian car crashes on youtube you should she how bad they do in crashes!

ShadowHearth

Well Niva was/is quite a good offroader even now. I would much prefer get stuck somewhere in NIVA then in any modern plastic school bus 4x4...

piston

Fact is, they were very strong cars. I knew a builder who had an estate for about 15 years and treated it like a Transit van, filling it with concrete blocks, building bags of cement on the roof rack, never maintaining it and it took it all in it's stride. Fuel consumption, performance and handling was horrendous with 15 hundred weight bags of cement in the back.

corktina

oh god Lada jokes...its 1980 again...

ShadowHearth

Most of these jokes so far I heard used about fiats.

corktina

Lada Riva largely WAS a FIAT...(125 i believe)

Guy:Incognito

gcgirl wrote: »

Ah always wanted to drive a Lada seriously tough car and possible better than a few big named cars

Having nothing to break doesnt make it better than another car. I'll quite happilt take my chance with my radio, aircon, soundproofing, nice seats etc.

davet82

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Most of these jokes so far I heard used about fiats.

I believe they were Lada jokes first

MuppetCheck

davet82 wrote: »

I believe they were Lada jokes first

Amazing when the Fiats preceeded the LADAs that were based on them.

I would have a Niva as a weekend vehicle for doing dirty jobs around the garden such as trips to the dump without any hesitation.

Although I came across this when looking and I was left speechless.

blastman

corktina wrote: »

Lada Riva largely WAS a FIAT...(125 i believe)

Fiat 124 (my uncle had one of these many, many moons ago....)

Voodoomelon

Uncle in law had one in the 80s, it was a lovely poo-brown colour.

mb1725

corktina

blastman wrote: »

Fiat 124 (my uncle had one of these many, many moons ago....)

then the 125 was the Polski FIAT or the FSO version.... one of them

working fool

piston wrote: »

Fact is, they were very strong cars. I knew a builder who had an estate for about 15 years and treated it like a Transit van, filling it with concrete blocks, building bags of cement on the roof rack, never maintaining it and it took it all in it's stride. Fuel consumption, performance and handling was horrendous with 15 hundred weight bags of cement in the back.

Wow lada's and builders !
Two things that are out of fashion