I Bought a Lada 2107. It's Definitely a Car

[keithfelter]

Loved the video! Your problem is that you are not using the Lada correctly. That back seat should be stuffed to the headliner with watermelons, or potatoes, or chickens, or a cow. Basically whatever needs to go to market. Also, the engine should be at redline, or maybe a little over whenever you are on the highway. If you need to pass a car, make sure you do it in the lane of the oncoming traffic (preferably in the presence of oncoming traffic). You should never put a Lada on a lift. Simply roll it onto one side, and prop it with a 2x4 to work on the underside of the car. At least, this is how I saw Ladas used when I lived in a former SSR.

[RNCHFND]

From a Trabant to a Lada. You're going up in life

[tonygallagher]

I knew a bus driver. He loved his Lada Riva. He said it was the closest a car came to the feeling of driving a bus. I'm still not quite sure what to make of that statement.

[igorpro]

Good work, man. I had a Lada 2106 for a few years. Cost me a fortune to rebuild the suspension every few thousand kilometers, was gas thirsty as an airplane, but took me where I wanted to go. I, personally, noticed that every Lada had its own character - pedals, shifting, engine - never the same.

[DeviantOllam]

The happy Trabant was the start I didn't know I needed to my day. ☺️

[nickloh]

I vote for a Wankel swap. Make use of all those digits on the tach.

[kalmarnagyandras]

We (family of four) moved from Hungary to Britain (and back, a couple of years later) in one of these :) It was an experience

[bjdhgj]

When you drive a Lada, you drive it for the feeling! The smell of the enteriour of an old Lada is unique! And I tell you, as I experienced: the older Ladas, the round headlights versions were a little bit more fun to drive. They were a little more stabil on the road, the gear was better shifting one, and you could upgrade it with a fifth gear. The only thing that was dangerous or funny of this car, that the back of it was so light, that in wintertime you had to have two sacks of sand or cement in the luggage room to be able to start runnig with it on snow, and not to spin around all the time. We loved that car back in time here in Hungary!

[josephhgoins]

I literally yelled "GOOD GOD" when you said the price. You deserve the 5 speed transmission.

[Donald_Shaw]

You've socially arrived... you went from a lowly Trabant all the way up to a Lada. You've finally achieved rockstar status. Love your videos and your wonderful sense of humor.

[w.a.l]

I grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada in the 1980s and 1990s. My parents owned two of these. One was poop brown, one was a pee yellow. The yellow one, our dealer actually sold a dealer installed option automatic transmission by buying Chevette 3-speed automatics from the Chevrolet Oldsmobile Cadillac dealer across the street. My mom couldn't drive a stick, so that's what my father bought her. My father was so cheap he figured why buy a new car when he could get two for the price of one. The rustproofing was horrendous. After a few years I can remember looking down at the carpet and seeing the road flash before me. At least they came standard with a tool kit in the trunk. I will say these were popular in Eastern and Atlantic Canada because they had decent ground clearance in the snow and handled potholed roads well. Rustproofing aside, these powertrains were tough as hell. They were cheap, and they sold very well, along with the Hyundai Pony. But, when Hyundai joined the Canadian market with the Pony and Stellar, it I think was the death knell for Lada in Canada. They stopped selling new cars in Canada in 1997.

[okladoma]

Greetings from a fellow Oklahoman. I live in N.E. Oklahoma near Claremore. I stumbled onto your video because I have been studying and learning the Russian language for over a year. Don't know why 😂 but I have fallen in love with the Russian people and their culture. Your videos are fun to watch. Don't lose the humor.

[planetfall]

The fact that both you and the seller didn't notice how many gears this car has is adorable.

[tamasdobronyi]

Greetings from Hungary! This 2107 with the big chrome grille was called “paraszt-merci” in Hungary which roughly translates to “peasant-Benz”.

Btw, unlike any other communist countries (edit: as it turns out from my fellow former eastern block viewer’s comments, not unlike, but: like other commie countries), you could have a western car in Hungary if you had the money to buy and to pay the taxes - only problem was Hungarian currency was not (officially, easily) convertible to western currencies, so most people with western cars actually earned the money in the west (export company employees, sportsmen, entrepreneurs, truck drivers) bought the car and moved back to Hungary, or bought those cars second-hand from the previous ones. Mercedes W115 was popular, as well as Fiats, VW Beetle, some French cars. Like 90% of the cars were commie cars tho.

And… you should definitely get a rear-engine communist era Skoda once. Better than Trabant, worse than Lada… and a very interesting one. Very popular in the countryside. Aluminum OHV four-cyl four stroke with only three crankshaft bearing, a legendary (and pretty crappy) engine which was in production from 1933 to 2003, unique layout, unique sound, unique problems, terrifying handling, but very much fun. You’d enjoy. And we’d enjoy the videos about it :P

[losfogo]

I remember seeing a 1975 Lada Niva in my small italian town. It went everywhere at any time, any condition of the road. It was like the Panda 4x4:rugged, simple, not too big, cheap and agile. A mountain goat

[martinalmendras]

The Lada is one of my favorite vehicles, also known as "the Soviet tank" because of how resistant it was in my country (Chile). It became popular in the 80s as a very economical family car given the circumstances of the time in my country

[visceroid]

Greetings from Yakutia!
Somewhere in 1998, when I was 10 years old, my father bought a red Lada 2107. It seemed to me the perfect car. How I loved to sit in the front seat and listen to music. My father has been dead for almost a year now. I almost shed a tear when you showed the dashboard. Memories flooded back. Thank you.

[KulebyakMaster]

These(2106, 2107) are really often used as a fun winter-drift cars here in Russia. I am regularly seeing them wrapped around a pole or in a ditch, what a view to witness😊

[andysaunders]

I had a blue Lada, with a Weber carb conversion, and extractors.
Also had a full dash, with tach, oil, volts, temp and gas gauges.
It was a beast, and the worst thing was the manual timing chain adjustment. Not hard, just annoying.
Wish I'd never sold it.
Had a Fiat 125 twin-cam, and the Lada would leave it standing.
They both sounded great!

[BoloH.]

The automatic in Dennis might've been an importer option. The importer in Finland offered cool options as well, like sunroof for 210x or a turbo for Niva.