Im am so glad that driver is religious he must pray each and every 30 seconds in that thing, coming up to traffic lights "oh lord please stop my car" a motorway"oh lord let me pass 45mph"

and the padestrians "oh lord allow me to speed up"

It is a wonderful car that gives quite a lot of respect due to its attributes; Every car moves away and lets driver through; Pedestrians run away from it, cops do not bug you. :rock:

Yes i know ive driven three and the only reason cops leave you alone is because the thing is built like a tank and will more than likely destroy the cop car before you ever have a flipping chance of stopping the lada.

Where my friends base is down in shoeburyness he had two lada nivas, one he canibalised for parts the other ran, well we decided to let the 33 tonne modified alvis saracen a 3x3 APC run over the thing.

DID it heck after four attempts we still hadnt snapped the axles time to move in on the big boy our recovery truck finnished it off simply by ramming it into a wall a few times.

If you want to drive a safe car drive lada. garenteed to start in the snow easy to nick although no one will in england. and an engine that will outlast you!

Advertisement for lada

0-60 in 3 calender months
0-100 never unless pushed off a cliff

Ah the fun iv had with a few of those, be very careful in bends and such, it has a tendency to come up on two wheels and if you roll over you are quite ****ed since the seatbelts are useless. good times, good times.

Edit: The ladas engine will indeed outlast you, but when the body starts to rust it will go quickly. Driving a car you can feel bend under you in turns is not fun, well it is fun but it isnt safe. Allso dont run into a wall at 30 km/h since arround that speed the hood will rise up and head straight for your head. But at least you will never need more than two tools to fix any problem in a moskovich or lada, an axe and a sledgehammer. With those you can do everything you could ever need to to maintain the car, we have changed the transmition with my uncle using those two.

Niva is great fun to drive.:D Another even more is the UAZ-469 that we had in the army, we used to race with them in the forest.:rock:

http://tietokannat.mil.fi/kalustoesi...199725_UAZ.jpg

I recall ads we had in Canada (yup they sold Ladas) "How do you like your Lada? I like mine just fine." Hehe. Well I always thought not every Russian car would be crud, after all I always liked the T-34 and Il-2 and while far from fancy machinery they worked well and were durable.

Here are some photos from small town Sebezh (Себеж) in Pskov Region (North-western parts of Russia). I've lived there for two years in 80-s during my father's military service. These photos weren't taken by me - I wish they were but they are from an official site of the town and nereby Nature Park :

http://www.seb-park.org.ru/mfa/Images/nab%20(6).jpg

http://www.seb-park.org.ru/mfa/Images/gor%20(7).jpg

http://www.seb-park.org.ru/mfa/Images/gor%20(4).jpg

http://www.seb-park.org.ru/mfa/Images/gor%20(5).jpg

http://www.sebezh.ru/img/alin/alin16.jpg

More to come

This are couple of my photos of the Pskov's Kremlin - I've taken them in autumn 2005:

http://photofile.ru/photo/dmmarkov/3038450/63035293.jpg

http://photofile.ru/photo/dmmarkov/3038450/63035295.jpg


More to come

Nice gallery with pictures of my native city: http://www.pbase.com/galina_stepanova/moskva

Especially this one:

http://www.pbase.com/galina_stepanova/image/46658234

:)

Ah Pskov,, beuatiful town and a church on every corner so it seemed.

I'll have to dig out a photo I took of a church, the Sky behind is black with cloud but the sun was reflecting nicely off the white church. almost holy like.

I'm longing to see it, XabbaRus! :)

Some of my favorite corners of Moscow:





Riverside in Kolomenskoye Park near the center parts of the city:

http://mosday.ru/photos/54_154.jpg
http://mosday.ru/photos/54_155.jpg
http://mosday.ru/photos/54_19.jpg

Hamovniki district:

http://mosday.ru/photos/57_813.jpg


http://mosday.ru/photos/54_29.jpg

Northern Port:

http://mosday.ru/photos/14_79.jpg
http://mosday.ru/photos/45_94.jpg

More to come

This thing is situated in Moscow also :yep: :

http://mosday.ru/photos/57_564.jpg

Excuse my ignorance, but what boat is that?