Lada has made a number of improvements to the 4×4 SUV it sells in Russia – aka the Niva in the rest of the world. The changes focus on making the cabin a more enjoyable and comfortable place to be in, ...

General Motors has been slowly, but steadily reducing its global operations, with the latest move coming after the American company agreed to sell its 50-percent stake in the GM-AvtoVAZ Russian joint ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

For 2020, the 42-year-old SUV has been treated to some modest changes. They don’t disguise the Niva’s age, the little SUV looking much as it did when it first rolled off the Togliatti production line ...

AvtoVAZ’s Lada brand sold 362,356 cars in Russia in 2019 – a gain of 1% on the previous year (and in a market that was down by 2.3%). Lada says its Russia market share in all light vehicles increased ...

In 1971, Alexei Kosygin, premier of the Soviet Union, instructed two Russian car companies to create an automobile suitable ...