if lada is good for one feature, it would be reliability.... after you have done the brand new soviet car things like checking all the electric connections and shieet. you know, importers of commie cars to western countries where those were sold were mostly controlled commie governments, the importing company was also the dealership, they basically did full overhaul on everything they sold. moment factory new car was delivered to them, they did all the electrics again, re-applied rust protection and repainted the fucking thing if there was anything resembling defect on paint. for commie car dealership, it was perfectly normal to painting robot in 60's. just because they needed to keep up appearance of them being competent at making simple no frills cars. soviets didn't make any money from export of cars due to all that work being done by locals with western wages. from what i understand, export models of cars were a desirable thing in soviet union, because those were better made domestic market examples. basically after the fixing the cars, they still had reputation for shit quality in the west. i feel sorry for people that got the domestic market car after decade of wait in soviet union. there is a reason why commie cars basically disappeared from the market when soviet union went way of the dodo stopped fixing the cars they export at cost to the state. also, there are some benefits if you keep basic design of car the same for 52 years.   > the sedan, being a soviet take on a fucking fiat, is a whole different story that was only remotely modern thing they could base their engineering practices on for niva.   > anyone having anything to do with a fiat gets what they fucking deserve one thing italian cars had bad reputation from 60's to 80's for was rust protection, genuine fiat 124 was arguably even worse than lada when it comes to turning into iron oxide dust.
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