I actually saw a LADA today.

deise08 · 25-01-2015 06:34PM #1

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 · 25-01-2015 06:35PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:36PM

Were there many people around to push it?

Sheep Lover · 25-01-2015 06:37PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:39PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:39PM

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

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

Duke O Smiley · 25-01-2015 06:41PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:42PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:46PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:47PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:48PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:48PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:48PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:49PM

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

pablo128 · 25-01-2015 06:49PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:49PM

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 · 25-01-2015 06:53PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:06PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:10PM

With REAL plastic?! :eek:

Duggy747 · 25-01-2015 07:11PM

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

Autonomous Cowherd · 25-01-2015 07:17PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:18PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:18PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:19PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:20PM

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.

25-01-2015 07:29PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:30PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:37PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:38PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:38PM

zcorpian88 wrote: »

also the suspension is meant to be diabolical in them.

what do you call the shock absorbers in a Lada?

Passengers.

deise08 · 25-01-2015 07:40PM

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.

I actually saw a LADA today.

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