Automobile Makes and Models Lada

Yeah yeah, the car that gets the highest lap total gets the overall win at a 24 Hours Of LeMons race, but the insiders know who deserves the real respect! Jalopnik readers should be proud, because our own Comrade Teargaskov's team will be taking home the much-coveted Index Of Effluency trophy from The Lamest Day. The '87 Lada Niva wasn't very fast around the track- well, in fact it was quite slow- but the team didn't get a single black flag...  

Internet access is difficult at best here at Nelson Ledges, so live updates are going to be few and short. At the moment, the Charlie Foxtrot Racing BMW 325i leads. The Lada broke down early and often, but (much like the old Soviet Union) keeps staggering back out for more laps. The story with the '61 Cadillac has been much the same. This is a fast, fast track, with broken parts galore; I'd say that at least 30 cars are now out with major...  

The Lamest Day takes place at Nelson Ledges next weekend, and it will feature the best all-time Index Of Effluency matchup in 24 Hours Of LeMons history: a Soviet car taking on a finned Caddy! Let me tell you, this epic battle is gonna make the Cuban Missile Crisis look like a kiddie squabble at the day-care center! Will Soviet-made Fiat technology triumph over 4,500 pounds of very rusty Detroit iron? Let's take a look at the combatants...  

Are you familiar with Lada? No? Let me refresh. It is the bargain basement Russian car (think the Red Square's version of the Fiat Panda or Citroen 4CV), mass produced in huge quantities during the 1980s...  

Filed under: Renault, Russia Lada Concept C - Click above for high-res image gallery All eyes have been on Renault since acquiring a 25% stake in Russian automaker Avtovaz. The French carmaker headed by the venerable Carlos Ghosn beat out Fiat and General Motors to acquire the interest in Lada's parent company, but then the economy tanked and Ghosn was left holding his hat. Original plans centered around new product launches to re-invigorate...  

Hunderte Beschäftigte des angeschlagenen russischen Lada-Produzenten Avtovaz haben in der Wolga-Stadt Togliatti gegen die Streichung von mindestens 5.000 Arbeitsplätzen protestiert. Die Demonstranten verabschiedeten am Samstag auch eine Erklärung an Regierungschef Wladimir Putin, in der unter anderem der Rücktritt der Unternehmensleitung sowie eine Erhöhung des Monatslohns auf 25.000 Rubel (rund 570 Euro) gefordert wird, wie die Agentur...  

MadonnaSingers Lada Gaga and Madonna shocked audiences last night, by staging a catfight on live television. The stars performed a synchronised dance-off, dressed in matching black lingerie and... [This is a content summary only. Visit Woo Factor for full links, other content, and more! ]  

. With Paul Lynde on the set of Bye Bye Birdie Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...  

Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed it is to shut one of its sites in the West Midlands due to a restructure of its operations. The group will decide next year whether it will close its Castle Bromwich plant in Birmingham or its Range Rover factory in Solihull. While the closure of the plant is not expected [...]  

Remember we had a pool going on the number of laps the Lada and the Fleetwood would do? Well, according to Murilee Martin on the LeMons forum, here are the happy totals: Lada: 528 laps Cadillac: 183 laps Best guess on the Caddy: Murilee Martin - 165 (honorable mention: TheaGalooba - 157) Best guess on the Lada: Sheed's Bald Spot - 510 (honorable mention: dohcspit - 502) Congrats to the winners! 62imperialcrown  

MOSCOW — Russia is trying alternately to woo and to strong-arm Renault into helping to pay for a rescue of its largest carmaker, the manufacturer of the boxy Lada sedans that was just eking by before the financial crisis swept the globe, and is now ...  

ste p I agree but I think that if the tax is lowered it will be easier to get rid of rubbish ... or something like that. Personally I blame Gordon Brown. And I think the MPs expenses are stupid SORT IT OUT BROWN.  

Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Lada , once a symbol of the dull, utilitarian Soviet auto industry, has became the fastest-growing car brand in Germany 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, boosted by the German government’s consumer incentives. “The ...  

HAVANA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - After three decades as the favored car of Cuban nomenklatura, the austere, Russian-built Lada has spotted a Chinese rival in its rear-view mirror. Ministers, communist officials and police are switching their Ladas, with ...  

Just two weeks after the Lada Sport team qualified fourth at Oschersleben, the Priora squad has confirmed its progress by claiming two top-six finishes at Imola! The Italian venue, well known for being the home of the San Marino Grand Prix, marked ...