Neither my two friends or I had ever driven a classic Lada before, but we corrected that mistake by spending long hours behind the wheel of Jalopnik's almost bone stock 1982 Lada 1200S to tell you ...

It was often likened to a skip on wheels, yet somehow managed to become a symbol of the Soviet era. But after more than 40 years on the road, Russia has finally decided to consign the much-ridiculed ...

The Russian manufacturer's cars made in the Soviet Union era were infamous for their boxy looks and one model was dubbed a "skip on wheels". The cars were pulled from production in the UK in 1997 but ...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has spent much of the summer cultivating his image as a rugged leader, one day out in the wild tracking bears, the next chasing a gray whale in choppy seas off ...