I actually saw a LADA today.

zcorpian88 · 25-01-2015 07:40PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:42PM

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 · 25-01-2015 07:45PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

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

Put it in H!

e.r · 25-01-2015 07:57PM

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

A wheelbarrow

zcorpian88 · 25-01-2015 08:04PM

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

You can drive a golf ball 200 metres

25-01-2015 08:04PM

I store my milk in a lada.

Autonomous Cowherd · 25-01-2015 08:06PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:07PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:08PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:09PM

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

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

PizzamanIRL · 25-01-2015 08:10PM

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

Autonomous Cowherd · 25-01-2015 08:13PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:16PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:29PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:32PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:34PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:49PM

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 · 25-01-2015 08:53PM

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

The bus and train timetables.

passatman86 · 25-01-2015 08:55PM

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

amorphous · 25-01-2015 09:46PM

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.

porsche959 · 25-01-2015 09:46PM

amorphous wrote: »

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

Oops. Good point.

Summer wind · 25-01-2015 09:49PM

When I was about 16 I was working in a petrol station. This was years ago when you were expected to fill the petrol for the customer. One of my first customers was a lady in a cream car. I went out and asked her "leaded or unleaded" and she burst out laughing and said "Its a Lada love".

Tonyandthewhale · 25-01-2015 10:36PM

From what I've seen they're still fairly popular in places like Bulgaria and Ukraine (probably Russia too but I haven't been there), some of them are new obviously but there are plenty running around that would be left-overs from the socialist period. I don't know much about cars but their reputation for unreliability must be over-stated with so many of them still on the go 25/30 years down the line. Although having said that I'm sure they don't win any prizes for comfort, driving pleasure or even safety. The lada niva (4x4) seems like a lovely little tank though.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-01-2015 11:20PM

There is a big competition at my local pub -

First prize is a Lada,

Second prize is two Ladas.

How do you double the value of a Lada?

Fill the tank.

How do you tell if your Lada is made by prisoners or ordinary underpaid Russian workers?

The car assembled by prisioners has nothing missing.

How else can you tell if your Lada was built by prisoners?

Once it leaves the factory it runs. And runs and runs...

Man buys a Lada but after only one day of ownership returns it to the garage.

"It's no good mate, the car's no good for me" says the man

"Why not?" asks the car dealer.

"See that hill over there?" says the man pointing

"Well it will only get up to seventy five up there!"

"That's not bad really sir, for a Lada especially. I can't see a problem with that"

"Trouble is" said the man, "I live at ninety five!"

saabsaab · 25-01-2015 11:45PM

A few years ago most running 'Irish' ladas were bought up for re-exporting to Russia where their higher spec strong build and basic engineering was in demand or the parts were.

lulu1 · 25-01-2015 11:51PM

I know a man who had a lada once and he had a lada luck with it.

K.Flyer · 25-01-2015 11:55PM

A man goes into a scrap yard and asks "Can I have a windscreen-wiper for my Lada?"

"Okay" replied the man in the yard, "it seems like a fair swap".

26-01-2015 12:01AM

There's someone living near me in Fairview with a Hungarian registered Trabant. Looks crazy to see it going around, the emissions out of it are crazy.

Banjo String · 26-01-2015 12:06AM

I mind it well, back in 95, the local GAA club treasurer trying to sell me a raffle ticket.

First prize, a lada.....

No your grand says me, I might win it.

e.r · 26-01-2015 12:07AM

I was driving down a motorway once in my lada when i seen this gorgeous blonde hitchiker, so i JAMMED on the brakes....

Only had to reverse back 3 miles to pick her up !!

I actually saw a LADA today.

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