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[Varche]

Retro style appeal to you. Here is the perfect electric car. Nice colour too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45292028

While you are there you could also buy a combat robot.

PS  No doubt Rods2 will be at the front of the queue

[Rods2]

Just what the world has been poised on their seats waiting for, an electric Lada. How much of the 250 mile range is from human motive power where it will have broken down.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I don't know why......I must be mad.................but I rather like the look of that in that colour!!

It is strangely, very very strangely, appealing! It is soooo different to the other cars of today!

[Omegatoy]

LIKE THE RETRO LOOK STYLING TO BE honest!
shades of mk11 escort in there?
and if its anything like russian trucks they go anywhere! and dont break down!

[Mister Rog]

But really, how cool would it be when the conversation turn to cars

" I drive a Kalashnikov, no really, I do . . . . "  but it is the top of the range AK model

[Rods2]

It is basically an early 1970s Fiat 124 as the Soviet Union with Fiat's assistance set up a Lada production line to produce them in the late 1970s. No longer produced in Ukraine but I guess Russia still does? You see plenty of Ladas broken down at the roadside in Ukraine. You also wouldn't want to be in an accident in one as crash protection is virtually nonexistent and contribute a considerable percentage of the 20 road deaths everyday in Ukraine. Ukrainian produced replacement is a Daewoo Lanos production line that has lived on after the demise of Daewoo but has had a couple of cosmetic makeovers.

Wife's nephew has one of the early Ladas it has no rear seat belts or points to fit them and when we got a 30 mile lift on the last leg of a trip from Kyiv's Zhuliana airport after a coach ride to Uman at night the rest of the journey was on mainly unlit badly maintained pot holed pitch black roads and the headlights would intermittently die when going over a bump with him braking with the poor brakes in the pitch black while not being able to see! He would fiddle with the wiring connectors until they came back on and we would set off again until the same thing happened. When I talk about pot holes the worst can be half the with of the road and over a foot deep. Not a journey you would want to do at night in the rain, where they are water filled, if you didn't know the road.

They were an outdated and poor car when the Soviets started producing them and with all the advances in car, engine, suspension and safety design since then they really show their age. The engine's performance is poor as they were detuned to run on poor Soviet low 85 octane petrol which you an still buy in Ukraine, with poor fuel consumption at about 30 mpg and poor reliability, but spares are cheap and plentiful. In the cities in Ukraine they are getting much rarer where they have replaced them with the much more modern Daewoos or expensive imported (due to eye watering import duties) western cars. You see plenty of Opels including the occasional Omega, Fords, VW, Peugeots and Renaults. In the towns and villages Ladas are still a common sight.

[Mister Rog]

It is basically an early 1970s  . . . .

Wife's nephew  . . . .

They were an  . . .  with poor fuel consumption at about 30 mpg and poor reliability, but spares are cheap and plentiful. In the cities in Ukraine they are getting much rarer where they have replaced them with the much more modern Daewoos or expensive imported (due to eye watering import duties) western cars. You see plenty of Opels including the occasional Omega, Fords, VW, Peugeots and Renaults. In the towns and villages Ladas are still a common sight.

Not like an Omega then ?               

[Keith ABS]

 The rear end roofline looks similar to Triumph 2000 estate to me.
Refreshing colour choice

[Rods2]

It is basically an early 1970s  . . . .

Wife's nephew  . . . .

They were an  . . .  with poor fuel consumption at about 30 mpg and poor reliability, but spares are cheap and plentiful. In the cities in Ukraine they are getting much rarer where they have replaced them with the much more modern Daewoos or expensive imported (due to eye watering import duties) western cars. You see plenty of Opels including the occasional Omega, Fords, VW, Peugeots and Renaults. In the towns and villages Ladas are still a common sight.

Not like an Omega then ?               

Except 1974 Lada Riva 1200cc 0-62: 16.4 seconds, 1300cc: 15 seconds, 1500cc: 12.9 seconds, the mighty 1983 1600cc SLX, 11.5 seconds, for an escort sized car that weighs 1057kg. No extra weight was wasted on namby, pamby crash cell protection, seat belts and air bags. What for, why would you.

[Sir Tigger KC]

It is basically an early 1970s  . . . .

Wife's nephew  . . . .

They were an  . . .  with poor fuel consumption at about 30 mpg and poor reliability, but spares are cheap and plentiful. In the cities in Ukraine they are getting much rarer where they have replaced them with the much more modern Daewoos or expensive imported (due to eye watering import duties) western cars. You see plenty of Opels including the occasional Omega, Fords, VW, Peugeots and Renaults. In the towns and villages Ladas are still a common sight.

Not like an Omega then ?               

Except 1974 Lada Riva 1200cc 0-62: 16.4 seconds, 1300cc: 15 seconds, 1500cc: 12.9 seconds, the mighty 1983 1600cc SLX, 11.5 seconds, for an escort sized car that weighs 1057kg. No extra weight was wasted on namby, pamby crash cell protection, seat belts and air bags. What for, why would you.

No that's what vodka is for!   

[Varche]

It is basically an early 1970s  . . . .

Wife's nephew  . . . .

They were an  . . .  with poor fuel consumption at about 30 mpg and poor reliability, but spares are cheap and plentiful. In the cities in Ukraine they are getting much rarer where they have replaced them with the much more modern Daewoos or expensive imported (due to eye watering import duties) western cars. You see plenty of Opels including the occasional Omega, Fords, VW, Peugeots and Renaults. In the towns and villages Ladas are still a common sight.

Not like an Omega then ?               

Except 1974 Lada Riva 1200cc 0-62: 16.4 seconds, 1300cc: 15 seconds, 1500cc: 12.9 seconds, the mighty 1983 1600cc SLX, 11.5 seconds, for an escort sized car that weighs 1057kg. No extra weight was wasted on namby, pamby crash cell protection, seat belts and air bags. What for, why would you.

They seem to hold their secondhand value well. Look at this beauty.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/this-40-year-old-lada-once-referred-to-as-a-skip-on-wheels-is-estimated-to-sell-for-£75k-at-one-of-britains-most-prestigious-auctions-next-month/ar-BBMptUE?ocid=spartanntp

[Lizzie Zoom]

It is basically an early 1970s  . . . .

Wife's nephew  . . . .

They were an  . . .  with poor fuel consumption at about 30 mpg and poor reliability, but spares are cheap and plentiful. In the cities in Ukraine they are getting much rarer where they have replaced them with the much more modern Daewoos or expensive imported (due to eye watering import duties) western cars. You see plenty of Opels including the occasional Omega, Fords, VW, Peugeots and Renaults. In the towns and villages Ladas are still a common sight.

Not like an Omega then ?               

Except 1974 Lada Riva 1200cc 0-62: 16.4 seconds, 1300cc: 15 seconds, 1500cc: 12.9 seconds, the mighty 1983 1600cc SLX, 11.5 seconds, for an escort sized car that weighs 1057kg. No extra weight was wasted on namby, pamby crash cell protection, seat belts and air bags. What for, why would you.

They seem to hold their secondhand value well. Look at this beauty.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/this-40-year-old-lada-once-referred-to-as-a-skip-on-wheels-is-estimated-to-sell-for-£75k-at-one-of-britains-most-prestigious-auctions-next-month/ar-BBMptUE?ocid=spartanntp

Well...............it is complete and costs a lot less than the £5 million for another car shown on the OOF!!

[Rods2]

With all the money sloshing around from quantitative easing, unlike the 1970s, there has been too much competition in consumer goods and services for there to be much inflation. The reverse is true for assets like bonds, shares, property and any collectables like cars where there has been massive inflation and there will be a massive correction at the end of this economic cycle. Anybody that buys near to the current top will et their fingers badly burnt. Luxury flat developers are already suffering in London due to high stamp duties and oversupply, so prices are falling.