Lada 2101 - Lada

Lada 2101 Motor läuft unrund

Der Motor meines Lada's 2101 läuft seit diesem Jahr irgendwie unrund. Wenn ich leicht auf das gehe, geht die drehzahl scheinbar erst mal nach ...

Lada 2101 Pt. 2

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English Russia » Soviet Cars Abroad

by kolobkov

Haa, last picture is taken in Estonia. Yes, you can still see Soviet cars, maybe every 20th is still Soviet one. But they are vanishing really quickly because of their big gas consumption and old age. But it’s quite interesting to go from Narva across the border to drive around in Russia and see how much different are their cars there. Much more Soviet cars can be seen in Russia than in Estonia.

I remember now a TV-show that told about what happens with these old Soviet cars in Estonia when they are not in a working condition anymore. There are some couple dozen Egypt guys living in Estonia and they earn their living by searching for old Soviet Zhigulis and sending parts or better halves of these cars to Egypt. New machines are combined there from those old parts and those remastered Zhigulis are well-known and honoured there in Egypt.

There were official (!) Lada ressellers in Brazil, and you still can find some ladas in use here. It was sold for 4 or 5 years, but not anymore. The lada niva (the “jeep”) is still a very popular (and expensive)car when you change the entire drivetrain, but the samara/laika are all trashed, there are no replacement parts and the street value tends to zero.

Actually now they have become more expensive and less rare again and being brought out of grandparents garages. Ladas are often used by very young people for rallying and destruction derbies due to their rear wheel drive. Moskviches are being driven in a special rally league and for example sometimes ZAZ 968m has become a car to persuade ladies in central Tallinn.

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