The current Niva, still built on the 1977 body-in-white with a longer 1.7-litre injected engine, a five-speed gearbox, and the equipment a modern buyer expects: ABS, airbags, air conditioning, none of which the original car had.[1] Renamed twice for corporate reasons rather than engineering ones: Lada 4x4 in 2006 when General Motors took the Niva name for its own joint-venture SUV, then Niva Legend in 2021 once Lada reclaimed the plain “Niva” name for that same GM-derived car after buying it back.
No torque figure is published anywhere in the source for this specific 21214 engine tune, so it is left unset here rather than carried over from an earlier, smaller-displacement Niva engine it is not the same as.