What worries Steve Mattin, why the long-awaited station wagon is not only more beautiful, but also more exciting than a sedan, how a car with a new 1,8-liter engine drives, and why Vesta SW has one of the best trunks on the market Steve Mattin does not part with a camera. Even now, when we are standing on the site of the SkyPark high-rise amusement park and looking at a couple of daredevils preparing to jump into the abyss on the biggest swing in the world. Steve aims the camera, a click is heard, the cables are uncoupled, the couple flies down, and the head of the VAZ design center receives several more vivid emotional shots for the collection. "Don't want to try too?" I tease Mattin. “I can’t,” he replies. - Recently I injured my hand, and physical exertion to me ...

Bright appearance, colorful interior and tuned suspension - the sporty Granta has remained budget, but no longer requires special filters in order to look cool in social media feeds. stubbornly leads vegetable gardens through the garden partnership "Agrostroy" and the village of Empty Morkvashi along the primers of the Volga forestry. The forest is transformed into a city somehow in stages: first, the primer becomes wider, then it turns into high-quality concrete, which over the next three kilometers grows first with curbs, and then with asphalt. All this way, the blue Granta with the Drive Active nameplate makes it almost at full speed - there are no passing and oncoming cars, but on uneven primers and concrete potholes ...

The morning briefing has not yet begun, but we have already heard something encouraging: “Friends, drink champagne. There will be no cars today. Everyone smiled, but the tension that AvtoVAZ representatives radiated could, it seems, be collected by hand and packed in bags - the day when the Italian customs decided to be more meticulous in the design of five car carriers with brand new Lada Vesta, is able to cross out all the super efforts of the last year of the plant's operation. Either everyone will now see that Vesta is really a breakthrough, or they will decide that everything is as usual in Togliatti. It began with the fact that the Italians did not like the convoy of auto transporters with new cars, for which the VAZ workers honestly tried to issue temporary import for the sake of three days of a test drive for the press. Documents stuck at customs - physically ...

The XRAY crossover with the Cross prefix is ​​in many ways better than the original, and now, in addition, it has received a two-pedal version, which is equipped with a CVT and a special motor. Traffic in Kaliningrad and its environs is very slow by Russian standards. As if something beneficial was inspired by local drivers from neighboring Lithuania and Poland - road discipline is almost exemplary. The two-pedal XRAY Cross, which is presented to the press here, is very welcome. It is in peace that the new version is most organic. XRAY Cross is prettier, richer and, in the end, "crossover" than the usual XRAY. The project began with thoughts of a more muscular appearance, widening the track and increasing ground clearance. It would seem that they were not starting a revolution. But with the final amount of improvements, Cross is perceived as an almost independent car. There are a lot of cross-differences: with the expansion of the track, it’s spectacular ...

Many potential buyers of cars created by the domestic auto industry are interested in the release date of the Lada Vesta station wagon. No less relevant is the question of the cost of this fairly popular sedan. Some motorists do not stop their attention only on this model, but want to wait for a newer development - the Cross model. In 2016, on September 25, according to the plan of the former director of AvtoVAZ, Bo Andersson, Vesta was to be rolled off the assembly line in a station wagon. But, due to the lack of funds to finance this project, the launch of production was postponed. According to the decision of Nicolas Maur, who took the chair, the main share of capital investments for finalizing this version will fall on 2017. It is planned to start production in the spring of the same year. The exact release date of the Lada Vesta station wagon has not been announced, ...

Lada Vesta SV Cross is not only another novelty of the Togliatti automobile plant, which appeared two years after the start of sales of the Vesta family, but also an attempt to gain a foothold in a market segment previously unknown to the domestic auto giant. The cross-country station wagon SV Cross is built on the basis of the usual Vesta SV station wagon, while both models appeared simultaneously. At the moment, Vesta SV Cross is the most expensive car in the AvtoVAZ model line. Start of sales of Lada Vesta SV Cross If Vesta sedans appeared on the streets of Russian cities in the fall of 2015, then domestic buyers had to wait for another version of the Vesta model for 2 whole years. The refusal to release the West hatchback in 2016 led to the fact that the only possible new ...

In 2018, the domestic manufacturer decided to update the people's car from the Lada family. The Granta model received a number of improvements. And the first thing motorists pay attention to is an automatic transmission. In our test drive, we will consider in detail all the changes that have occurred in the car. Auto design The restyled version of the first generation received four body modifications. A station wagon and a hatchback were added to the sedan and liftback. The front of the car has not changed much. From the previous version of the car, it differs only in minor improvements. For example, windshield washer nozzles do not direct a smooth stream, but spray liquid. However, the problem with the wipers remains: they do not completely remove water from the glass. As a result, the blind spot on the A-pillar on the driver's side has become even wider.…

Sedan, naturally aspirated engine and clearance, like an SUV - AvtoVAZ created an almost ideal car for Russia. It is strange that none of the automakers has offered Russian buyers a cross-country sedan before. Yes, we remember that Tolyatti did not come up with anything new, and Volvo has been offering the S60 Cross Country for several years, which even has all-wheel drive. But Vesta is still the first in the mass market. And formally it even plays in its own league, so it has no direct competitors yet. In fact, Vesta with the Cross prefix has been pretty redesigned. We were convinced of this when we first met the SW Cross station wagon. As it turned out then, the matter was not limited to just screwing a plastic body kit around the perimeter.…

Which configuration? The plant employee assigned to the car does not know the answer, and the official list of versions, as well as the price list, does not yet exist. Bo Andersson indicated only a price range - from $6 to $588 More recently, a series called Lada Vesta seemed endless, although only a year had passed from concept to production car. But the number of leaks, rumors and informational reasons was so great that the future novelty was remembered at least a couple of times a month. The image of the car grew with details about the configurations, prices and place of production. Blurry spy pictures appeared, cars were met on tests in Europe, one of the officials clarified prices, and finally photos from production floated away. And here I am on the platform...

The penultimate "x-face", the interior from the first "Duster" and the ever-living eight-valve - with which the most practical Lada enters the tenth year of its life. The future is already here, and it looks like an updated Lada Largus. If the Russian economy suddenly does not improve, the transplant of a VW Polo into the body of a Skoda Rapid and other budget tricks will seem like a luxury. After all, Largus is essentially a first-generation Dacia Logan station wagon. When this model entered our market under the Lada brand in 2012, the Romanians introduced the next Logan. Nine years have passed, and Europe has already received the third version. And this is exactly the case when it is unfair to release all the dogs of AvtoVAZ. Look at the new Renault Duster for almost a million and a half - and you will understand what ...