I actually saw a LADA today.

deise08

I didn't think those things were still around.
God I haven't seen one since I was a child.


What do you call a lada with a sun roof?

reprise

deise08 wrote: »

I didn't think those things were still around.
God I haven't seen one since I was a child.


What do you call a lada with a sun roof?

A skip.

RobertKK

Were there many people around to push it?

Sheep Lover

LADAs were the first car with a heated rear window.

It was done because it kept your hands warm when pushing it in winter, it's the little things

conorh91

deise08 wrote: »

I didn't think those things were still around.
God I haven't seen one since I was a child.


What do you call a lada with a sun roof?

What do you call a Lada on top of a hill?

A miracle.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Hilarious video of Putin visiting a Lada factory to test out a new model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvLfQxfRiUQ

Duke O Smiley

deise08 wrote: »

I didn't think those things were still around.
God I haven't seen one since I was a child.


What do you call a lada with a sun roof?

Was it on Kickham road by any chance?

Egginacup

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

The Backwards Man

Egginacup wrote: »

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

Fred Flintstone could design one better, they were crap. Cheap, but crap.

deise08

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Was it on Kickham road by any chance?

There's another one?
Nope this one was outside Aldi in Waterford.

deise08

Egginacup wrote: »

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

Try honours maths my dear.

RobertKK

Egginacup wrote: »

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

Why have a Ferrari, when you could have a Lada...

Duke O Smiley

deise08 wrote: »

There's another one?
Nope this one was outside Aldi in Waterford.

Yeah I often see a red Lada saloon on Kickham rd in Dublin. Makes my day seeing it, but I am a bit of an anorak when it comes to stuff like this.

kneemos

Think they're rust proof,i.e. not made of metal.

pablo128

Egginacup wrote: »

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

Or let Fiat design them in the '60's and then copy them under licence.

Surely that's what you mean?

conorh91

Egginacup wrote: »

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

Ah give it a rest. They're harmless jokes. People will take offence at absolutely anything.

MonkieSocks

Weren’t they owned by former Formula One driver who was the three-time F1 World Champion, winning in 1975, 1977 and 1984.


Niki Lada

mad muffin

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Hilarious video of Putin visiting a Lada factory to test out a new model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvLfQxfRiUQ

I like his nod at the end.

6 turns of the key… not bad. Improvement over last years model, needing 10 turns of the key.

Belay the execution!

kowloon

With REAL plastic?! :eek:

Duggy747

I hear the latest model will go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene!

Autonomous Cowherd

My first car 15 years ago ( I was a late starter) was a second hand Lada. Once, on one of its few times breaking down, the local (drunk) mechanic fixed it with a bit of sheep wire out of the fence. It was seriously the best car I've ever had. It never let me down, (though once the back wheel jumped off ad passed me out while we were going down a hill), but still no major damage. In 15 years of second hand car hell, I would take a Lada again any day

Pug160

Were they really as bad as people made them out to be? Surely they'd have to be quite reliable in the Russian weather?

MIKEKC

RobertKK wrote: »

Why have a Ferrari, when you could have a Lada...

How many of the people slagging off the Lada actually had one? I owned a few when they were on sale in
this country. Covered 60,000--70,000 miles in each one, never a problem. Got them serviced regularly.
Still have a Lada Cossack jeep,the best off-roader ever made
.

FalconGirl

Egginacup wrote: »

The ones who slag off things like LADA cars are the ones who couldn't pass lower level InterCert Maths.
Design one better, you master engineers.

conorh91 wrote: »

Ah give it a rest. They're harmless jokes. People will take offence at absolutely anything.

Nobody mocks Mother Russia. The greatest and most powerful nation on earth.

** Beats chest and drinks bottle of vodka **

porsche959

Awful things, U2 featuring them in their ZooTV tours gave them unwarranted hipster cred.

Yes, young 'uns, believe it or not, U2 were briefly hip in the early nineties.

Omackeral

Lad walks into a car parts place.

''Can I have a set of windshield wipers for a Lada?''

Salesman replies, ''That's a fair swap, go on then.''

harry Bailey esq

deise08 wrote: »

There's another one?
Nope this one was outside Aldi in Waterford.

was it a pale blue one?I often spotted a pale blue lada parked up across from aldi by the forum/offo

zcorpian88

Haven't seen one of them in a long time, they were everywhere when I was growing up in the 90's. They were as cheap as chips to buy.

Think they are still exclusively made in Egypt still, seen it on Top Gear, also the suspension is meant to be diabolical in them. We had some horrible cars on the road when I was growing up, it was between the Lada, the Nissan Bluebird, Nissan Sunny's and Fiat Uno's everywhere.

kneemos

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

My first car 15 years ago ( I was a late starter) was a second hand Lada. Once, on one of its few times breaking down, the local (drunk) mechanic fixed it with a bit of sheep wire out of the fence. It was seriously the best car I've ever had. It never let me down, (though once the back wheel jumped off ad passed me out while we were going down a hill), but still no major damage. In 15 years of second hand car hell, I would take a Lada again any day

Used to see quite a few across the water back in the day,not so much here .Invariably always had a steering lock fitted.

What kind of milage did you get out of interest?

conorh91

zcorpian88 wrote: »

also the suspension is meant to be diabolical in them.

what do you call the shock absorbers in a Lada?

Passengers.

deise08

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

was it a pale blue one?I often spotted a pale blue lada parked up across from aldi by the forum/offo

never seen that one. this was a cream/ white one parked out by the kingsmeadow one.

zcorpian88

conorh91 wrote: »

what do you call the shock absorbers in a Lada?

Passengers.

Hahaha, yeah I heard they were back breakers alright. Clarkson took the piss out of them, so did a mate of my dad's that had one years ago, he traded it for a much older highace van if I remember right.

cajonlardo

Here is the Riva 4 x 4 review from 5th gear - the camera crews Land Rover discovery couldn't keep up with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFx5b5Tpjfc

My Mother had a hatchback back in the '80's. Feckin dependable, cheap, easily home serviced . It was never designed as a getaway car. I think there was about 90,000 miles on it when she eventually gave it to her brother

Skylinehead

Duggy747 wrote: »

I hear the latest model will go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene!

Put it in H!

e.r

What ya call a lada with two exhaust pipes and a sunroof.......




A wheelbarrow

zcorpian88

What's the difference between a Lada and a golf ball?

You can drive a golf ball 200 metres

I store my milk in a lada.

Autonomous Cowherd

kneemos wrote: »

Used to see quite a few across the water back in the day,not so much here .Invariably always had a steering lock fitted.

What kind of milage did you get out of interest?

I cannot remember waht the start mileage was but i have rarely surrendered a car that did not beat its way to 120,000 miles ..and it definitely got that far

Wabbit Ears

If I ever do the mongol rally again I'm doing it in a lada. Agricultural in their simplicity, stunning boxy looks. They are in every way commie-tastic.

kneemos

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

I cannot remember waht the start mileage was but i have rarely surrendered a car that did not beat its way to 120,000 miles ..and it definitely got that far

No,the MPG?

zcorpian88

What's the difference between a Jehovah's Witness and a Lada?

You can shut the door on a Jehovah's Witness.

PizzamanIRL

LA DA DA DA DA. Because I got high, because I got high, because I got highhhh

Autonomous Cowherd

kneemos wrote: »

No,the MPG?

Oh lol sorry ....no idea. This was 15 years ago when the cost of petrol would not make your hair curl but i do remember it seeming to be easy on petrol. Sorry, I am a female and have 'car blindness', (perhaps not exclusively a female afflcition) and these kind of details pass me by - as it is I can hardly recognise my own car in the supermarket car park. :P

mad muffin

FalconGirl wrote: »

Nobody mocks Mother Russia. The greatest and most powerful nation on earth.

** Beats chest and drinks bottle of vodka **

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxcP7TRY178

wendell borton

Really got to admire Russian technology its all very retro futuristic. They used mechanical computers in their spacecraft up until 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%22_IMP_navigation_instrument

kneemos

wendell borton wrote: »

Really got to admire Russian technology its all very retro futuristic. They used mechanical computers in their spacecraft up until 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%22_IMP_navigation_instrument

Don't hear of them killing their cosmonauts very often.

MTBD

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

Oh lol sorry ....no idea. This was 15 years ago when the cost of petrol would not make your hair curl but i do remember it seeming to be easy on petrol. Sorry, I am a female and have 'car blindness', (perhaps not exclusively a female afflcition) and these kind of details pass me by - as it is I can hardly recognise my own car in the supermarket car park. :P

We had a Niva back around 1990. Unbelievably thirsty. 1.6 litre petrol engine was getting less than 20MPG. We had to fit LPG tank to make it economical. Great thing to pull though considering its size. I'm too young to remember it in detail but I remember Dad taking it to the off road course near Cork airport and it proved itself well capable.

The Niva was a good vehicle as that review in 5th gear proves.

Skylinehead

wendell borton wrote: »

Really got to admire Russian technology its all very retro futuristic. They used mechanical computers in their spacecraft up until 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%22_IMP_navigation_instrument

And their rockets are the best in the world. Saturn, Atlas, the Shuttle, all came and went, and the Soyuz keeps on going.

zcorpian88

What occupies the last 16 pages of the Lada User's Manual?

The bus and train timetables.

passatman86

Red lada in waterford on donedeal
Doesnt look bad to be fair

amorphous

porsche959 wrote: »

Awful things, U2 featuring them in their ZooTV tours gave them unwarranted hipster cred.

Yes, young 'uns, believe it or not, U2 were briefly hip in the early nineties.

They were East German Trabant's not Lada's.