Lada Niva

(Lada Niva, ca 1977)


 (Lada Niva, ca 1977) 

Lada Niva is easy to repair and a blast to drive off-road. It can be styled in military colors to blend right into the terrain, making it a perfect vehicle for hunting and outdoor activities. There ain't no terrain this car can't conquer!

There was this guy responsible for maintaining a lousy gravel road where I grew up, and he drove a 1996 model Lada Niva as his work van. In that construction company, I noticed his colleague drove a Skoda, so it seems like old Eastern Bloc cars were the go-to in that firm.

I received a picture from a buddy of a Lada Niva he spotted in a garage complex in a housing cooperative near Warner Arena in Asker. Apparently, it belonged to an elderly couple who imported it from Russia, and it looked like a recent import. I've attached the picture below.

And a while back, I saw an 1980 model Lada Niva with old DC (Oslo) license plates, which means that car must've endured quite a beating over the years with all that road salt!

This tells me that it's easy to keep this car running despite its bad reputation.

Lada Niva was one of the most popular Ladas in the 90s, and you can still spot them on the roads today. Unfortunately, they stopped selling Lada in Norway in 1999.

Below, you'll see a picture of a 2012 model Lada Niva. Lier Lada Club has a special interest in Niva models, so they're a good bunch to reach out to if you're looking to get yourself one of these cars.

And here's a link to the nearest Lada dealer for folks in Trøndelag: https://bilkonsultsundsvall.se/ , Oslo: https://bilweb.se/bilhandlare/seffel-bil-ab, Kristiansand: http://www.lada.minisite.dk/ and Troms and Finnmark: https://murmansk.pragmatika.lada.ru/. And if you're taking the ferry from Oslo to Kiel, here's the closest one: https://suchen.mobile.de/auto/lada-hamburg.html.





(The Lada my friend spotted in Asker)

(Here is a remodeled Lada from finn)

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