AvtoVAZ was founded in Tolyatti, Soviet Union, in 1966, purpose-built with Fiat’s help to mass-produce a Western-designed small car for a domestic market that had almost nothing like one.[1] Cars sold at home carried the Zhiguli name; the same cars, and Lada as a brand for them, were built for export from the early 1970s. Lada went on to sell more cars in more countries than any other Soviet or Russian manufacturer, on the back of low price and mechanical simplicity rather than sophistication.
Brand
Lada
AvtoVAZ
- Founded
- 1966
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Nameplates
- 2
Identity
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Founded
- 1966
Nameplates (2)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (3)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
3 of 3
Body style
Era
| Lada Niva (VAZ-2121) VAZ-2121 | 1977–1994 | 59 kW | — | — | 1,150 kg |
| Lada Niva Legend (VAZ-21214) VAZ-21214 | 2010– | 61 kW | — | — | 1,210 kg |
| Lada VAZ-2101 VAZ-2101 | 1970–1988 | 51 kW | 18.0 s | 145 km/h | 945 kg |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-09-24
- Origin axis
- Soviet Union
Logo: File:Lada company logo image.png · AvtoVAZ. Displayed unmodified to identify this manufacturer's cars, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: No SVG source of the badge was available on Commons, so the hex was sampled directly from the downloaded logo bitmap: the most common non-transparent blue pixel value across the oval and wordmark was rgb(0,97,172).
References
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AvtoVAZ. Wikipedia · revision 1357164536 · read 2026-09-24
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