i saw this wide body lada niva with blacked out front indicator glass broken down or illegally parked by the river during my 054 saturday walkabout series.
then i rememberd that a shwedishe general did a press release under the week where he warned us that the war i coming to sweden soon. then i started thinking: what would russian spetznas soliders ride in if not a wide body lada 4X4 with blacked out forward blinker lenses?
and what are the odds that a wide bodied niva with blacked out frontal indicator lenses should brake down 50 meters from the local upper brigade museum where a fully functional pink battletank is parked. you tell me!
Previously known as the Lada Niva (originally named as VAZ 2121), the Lada 4×4 was first designed and produced by the Russian automaker AvtoVAZ in 1977.
The vehicle was the first mass production off-roader to feature a unibody architecture and independent front suspension with coil springs. It was the predecessor to current crossover SUVs, which nearly all followed this format. It was also coined by some as the “greatest Soviet car of all time.”
The Niva became the longest production run off-road light vehicle still manufactured in its original form. By the end of 2020, an estimated 650,000 Lada Nivas were used globally.