anyone heard of "lada"
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anyone heard of "lada"
its apparently a russian car company that put rotary engines into a couple of there cars,
http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/pg07.htm#ladarange
http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/pg07.htm#ladarange
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Here's a cool video of a Hungarian guy rallying his Lada, he pulls some nice slides:
http://www.ladaclub.hu/egyeb/video/lbk_emcsi1.wmv
(and you gotta love the music)
http://www.ladaclub.hu/egyeb/video/lbk_emcsi1.wmv
(and you gotta love the music)
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only the non-rotary ones, Magnus
Anyway, Lada is a russian car maker (part of a much bigger industrial group)
The famous square block lada's were licensed Fiat's, the cars were rather reliable, but extremely "basic". They were followed by the Samara, a car so bad that the EU versions were all built in Russia, shipped to Belgium, and tear down, and rebuilt!!! Engine's of those were developed by Porsche. Everything else was bad. The current models are rather rare, nobody buys those ugly uncomfortable cars anymore.
They did build rotary engines (as far as I know they simply copied rotaries, and didn't bought any rights)
but never really comercialised them. The KGB and police used them, in order to chase the slower russian cars
check this: http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/
specific: http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Fahrze...-vaz-lada.html
http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Motore...-vaz-lada.html
they even produced three rotor engines, with 300-350hp!
Anyway, Lada is a russian car maker (part of a much bigger industrial group)
The famous square block lada's were licensed Fiat's, the cars were rather reliable, but extremely "basic". They were followed by the Samara, a car so bad that the EU versions were all built in Russia, shipped to Belgium, and tear down, and rebuilt!!! Engine's of those were developed by Porsche. Everything else was bad. The current models are rather rare, nobody buys those ugly uncomfortable cars anymore.
They did build rotary engines (as far as I know they simply copied rotaries, and didn't bought any rights)
but never really comercialised them. The KGB and police used them, in order to chase the slower russian cars
check this: http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/
specific: http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Fahrze...-vaz-lada.html
http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Motore...-vaz-lada.html
they even produced three rotor engines, with 300-350hp!
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