Lada Niva

This car is a lie.
This is a Daewoo Damas.
GM just put another badge so you don't feel like shit.
Just like your """Vauxhall""" Astra.

I daily drive one of these in the UK.
I recommend more people do it.
It's slow, it's noisy and is simple in terms of creature comfort all of these aside from speed can be can be improved with a bit of bodging.
But do you know what it is? It's honest. You will never see a Lada Niva oversold, it will sell itself to you in terms of off road performance, ease of maintenance and more importantly character. Dunno what all the hate is for, probably amerifats used to 'muh ranger' or some other fat plastic engine-bayed peice of tripe. Ease of maintenance and spare choice and availability is unparalleled, whilst truck boys in my area repay their car loan I buy accessories and cheap beer. Part prices are cheap. Most jobs can be undertook with a basic set of tools and the era it was designed in reflected its design. No frills, everything that isn't needed or more prone to mechanical failure is removed. Forget heated seats, automatic windows and self adjusting wing mirrors this is car ownership at its most basic form and in fact, I love it.
I live in the middle of nowhere, unforgiving roads and sparse settlements and it has never failed to bring me home and whatever has gone wrong with it I just spent my evenings squirreling away.
When 2 Lada owners meet they are instant comrades, there is a shared bond between people. You do not buy the car for the cars sake, you buy it for the lifestyle. It is an un mistakable vehicle, once at the pub a Russian excitedly exclaimed that his grandad has one ploughing through Russian winters trouble free from year to year and I remember chatting to a Pole who 'Had one at home, is very very good car, need to go back, good car'.
Yes they are seen as shitboxes, the second the communist block came to a end they were abandoned for something shiny and western but when said shiny and western device breaks down or requires a specialist or expensive part then guess who is called, the humble Lada Niva driver.
Buy one, buy one now.

Honest car with a honest face

Nivas face is like a well meaning simpleton, you cannot be angry at it.

nice blog post, faggot

Thanks chum, one day when you own a car you might come here and post something sensible.
Merry xmas x

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Why not just buy an XJ? Is it too complicated? Too ''shiny''?

There's enough options for a car that isn't a Lada.

Because I wanted a cheap, small, and utilitarian 4x4 I could maintain on a shoestring budget, not a vehicle to drop my children off to football practise in and take my mixed race wife to yoga.

I don't have any children but I like to have a car that will work for everything.
What's the cost of a brand new Niva?

Which country do you lan to get one?

Baltics. Nevermind. From 8900€ for the base model and "Urban'' edition is from 10400€.

Three words homeslice:
80's
diesel
japshit

He wants a smaller car for some reason. Don't mind the fact that longer wheelbase will be better for offroading.

Why brand new though? Nivas fall apart at a constant rate regardless of age.

>Would it be a good daily life car?

My friend who is an ethnic white nationalist who lives in the french forest with his wife and 5 kids seems to be doing pretty well.

This is him with his car

youtube.com/watch?v=dG8sS0U3HDs

Previous niva owner here:

If you did over 90km/h for more than 5 minutes it would overheat.
It could plough through almost 1m of snow no dramas.

>going over 60kph in a niva
no thanks

Went 72 mph in my 1997 one once, thought I was going to die. I would imagine a new one with ABS, some extra sound padding (like old carpet or if you are minted some extra rubber) and nice wheels would be just fine.
Again, more baseless shit.
Stick with the base model and then customize it your hearts' content.

That looks pretty dank but I've never seen one of these in my country.

Lucky you as those are hard to find and the 1980s is long gone. Nissan confirmed for so tough even rednecks have some trouble killing them.

Really starting to regret that they were killed off in the UK otherwise I would have a whole fleet of them in various states of disrepair.

They're still imported into the UK. 7 grand will get you a new one

It never really caught on unfortunately, LHD on RHD roads kinda rustled peoples jimmies.
Importer site now says this 'Unfortunately, Lada 4x4 is no longer supported in the UK'
Would my best bet to get one from France/Belgium? Or are they becoming niche there to?

Dosent get any boxyer than this

get out Western pig.
oooout