How do you go about selling a Russian car in 1980s West Germany? Swing for the fences and give it a catchy name like California, one of few places on the planet where you were guaranteed to never ...

The 1988 Lada Niva didn't get to see much sunshine throughout 2022. A combination of yet another flat battery and a total lack of time meant the poor green off-roader sat in the garage for much of the ...

Renault creates Dacia-Lada Business Unit, pairing Romanian & Russian brands. Small Lada Niva 4x4 has been a sales hit for decades, and will see a redesign in 2024. Renault had been able to make Dacia ...

The debut of the all-new Lada Azimut certainly grabbed attention this week, marking the first new SUV from Avtovaz in nearly three decades. But that wasn’t all. Alongside the Azimut, the Russian ...

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, ...

If there was even a shred of hope for my objectivity, it was gone as soon as I climbed inside the 2019 Lada Niva, slammed its startlingly thin door shut, and felt the 84 horsepower engine rumble to ...

Boris Yeltsin might be butcher's hook in the comics, but the Lada Niva has just done a Lazarus and returned as a healthy Aussie Weetbix kid. The title of Lada Australia Pty Ltd is now held by a Perth ...

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