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That was fun to read. Especially as a 'unfortunate' owner of several Ladas (Zhigulis to be precise). It wasn't so easy servicable, 23 miles per gallon can be a
by well_that_was_ 8y ago
That was fun to read. Especially as a 'unfortunate' owner of several Ladas (Zhigulis to be precise).
It wasn't so easy servicable, 23 miles per gallon can be achieved only with best petrol (good luck finding that in USSR) and overall quality was suffering from a number of things: quality of spare parts, drunkennes of conveyor worker, altering of main design to make it cheaper...
And besides, _soviets_ per se wasn't ahead of time, since Lada/Zhiguli was produced on Italian factory bought completely from FIAT.
So if you want to praise engineers - praise Italians first.
- aavotins 8y agoLada 2101's aren't the same as Fiat 124. Russians bought the designs and rights to manufacture and changed them significantly enough. * Fiat used either OHV or DOHC, Lada used SOHC * Fiat had rear disk brakes, Lada had drums * Lada suspension was raised and reinforced to better deal with bad roads * Lada suspension was also dumbed down. IIRC Lada did not use trailing upper arms There are more than 800 differences between these two cars. I am not saying that Italians shouldn't be praised, but in reality the Lada is a completely different car.