Love the blonde Russian air bag

Jezuz!! Two more feet into the path of that truck and it would have been a different story....glad to see him walk away

Hate to say this or admit it, but I worked at a Lada dealer for a few yrs. Surprised that it was able to get to hwy. speed, as most of them here were either in the shop for broken rocker arms & electrical failures!!! The ones that weren't in the shop usually caught fire after being in a accident, as the fuel line into Carb. was a push in fitting, & fell out, & poured gas all over the "HOT" exh. manifold!!! Glad to see the man survive that one, One LUCKY S>O>B>

It seems self inflicted to me. I wonder if this taught him not to slice and dice through the big rigs? You know....in his next car!

I drove a 1991 Lada Niva 4x4 for 11 years. I redesigned the fifth gear and bronzed all of the shift forks in the transmission to keep it from falling apart. Good in snow but a lot of work. I wrote a small book on all of the systems I had to modify to make it run reliably.  Some parts were extremely well made (believe it or not the Russian designed parts, not the Fiat designed parts) and other parts were complete junk. Terrible heater too, which is why you always see pics of Russians wearing 16 fur coats while driving them. Mine was cool--well not really. Had the Cossak package. I called it the Cuss-at package. I drive a Chev 4 wheel drive truck now. Thank goodness for the recession so that the major automaker's trucks became affordable. Fred