Test drives VAZ Kalina 1118 sedan since 2004 sedan

At the end of last year, the last model of the Kalina family - the station wagon, climbed into the AvtoVAZ conveyor. Features of the long -awaited novelty were studied by Sergey Mishin. Lada-Kalina VAZ-111733POT from the first presentation of the station wagon to the conveyor took more than three years. Serial production and sales began in December 2007. The engine: gasoline, 1.6 liters (81 l.). Gearbox: 5-speed, mechanical. Complexation: norm, ...

The ten latest station wagons successfully finished in the rally-raid Astanaalmata. Andrei Sidorov drove 1200 kilometers at the wheel of one of the cars. This year, sales of Kalina-Universal began this year. AvtoVAZ decided to note the completion of the lineup with a grandiose journalistic rally-raid in Kazakhstan. Such massive media coverage aimed to convey information to potential buyers, as they say, from the firsthand ...

With the advent of foreign cars in our market, directly competing in price with domestic cars, disputes about what is better for Russia flared up with renewed vigor. Some hoarsely convince: our cars. Others are no less zealously drowning the Russian auto industry. Ford Focus manufacturer Ford Motor, Vsevolzhskogoda of production 2005 in the wheel since July 2006 Race for ...

For a long time, Kalina performed more than modestly - one body, motor, one equipment. Now the plant has expanded the assortment. In the role of a potential buyer of Kalina - Maxim Sachkov. Photo: George Sadkov. The choice of the seller in the car dealership - with what body? The sedan has more trunk, but in the hatchback you can easily transport something large-sized ...

Distributing with new options, Lada-Kalina is more and more like a modern European car. Andrei Sidorov talks about the latest changes. Photo: Pavel Sidorov. For this year, Kalina managed to lose a little fat and at the same time increase the muscle mass of a new 16-valve engine got rid of the extra 200 cubes of volume, but at the same time added nine power horses. Result…

AvtoVAZ completed the formation of the lineup of the Kalina family, starting the production of the long -awaited station wagon. However, the reason for collecting journalists was not only the emergence of a cargo -passenger version. Another innovation air conditioner. Summer is nearing, and it is difficult to overestimate the importance of this option. The format of the event was chosen very unusual: rally-raid. For two days - 1200 kilometers ...

We spent two days on the road, drove a total of 1400 km, pierced one wheel, spent 130 liters of gasoline, we were twice prescribed protocols about speeding. And all only in order to drive along the ice of the lake six circles on the coolest Lada Kalina in the world. Could more, but ...

The fact that the conclusion to the Lada Kalina market was frankly failure is not hidden even in the leadership of AvtoVAZ. And, indeed, the cars that appeared several years ago had a lot of flaws, and besides, the price of the first Kalina was out of place for more than 300 thousand rubles, which at that time was very large ...

It was much easier and safer to test the station wagon Lada Kalina 1.6 somewhere on the factory track. To drive on good asphalt, after that, marveling at a more practical one, in comparison with the sedan and hatchback, trunk, study new options and return home with a sense of duty. Instead, five hours on an airplane, long preparations and ...

The long -awaited event happened. The light was seen by serial viburnum collected at the new AvtoVAZ factory in Togliatti. The test sedan, who will go on sale in the summer, took place in the suburbs of Sochi. The car for the city exterior Kalina is well known. It is a creation of a bio -design that has become fashionable ten years ago. It is true, it is worth noting that, unlike ...