But when he climbs inside and starts the engine, the Lada coughs and kicks out thick black smoke. Tesfahun, a taxi driver in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, has been driving the iconic Soviet ...

The Lada 1200/1300/1500 was the export version of the Soviet-made VAZ-2101 Zhiguli ... facilities in the Brezhnev-era USSR. It might be best to consider the VAZ-2101 to be a close cousin (rather ...

We imagine that many a Russian Lada has been compared to a ticking time bomb – which is not to say that there aren't any good Ladas out in the wild, of course – but the example you'll see in ...

Speaking to the effectiveness of ingenuity and improvisation, the string-pull windshield wipers in this Russian Lada work surprisingly well in the snow and the rainy weather. We wouldn't recommend ...