Right steering wheel Lada for Britain

This story began in the spring of 1960, when Thompson and Taylor Limited (or Russian Cars), which took up the import of Soviet machines, was founded in the UK. The first Muscovites and the Volga. It is interesting that another brand promoted by Thompson and Taylor on the foggy Albion was the Italian Alfa Romeo. Here is such a non -banal brand set. Moreover, our cars were advanced due to the low price, the possibility of laying out seats in the sleeping position and a rich basic configuration.

Yes, Western competitors have things such as radio and stove cost separate money. Not to mention a set of 35 tools that went to Soviet cars for free. And after all, the business began to grow. By 1973, cars from the USSR were sold in Britain by 268 dealers. So the purchases touched not only Muscovites and the Volga, but also the Soviet motorcycles, Belarusian tractors and … Lada! In the first half of the seventies, the Lada 1200 sedan and the station wagon began to arrive at the dealers, and then it started. In the 1980s, Togliatti products were sold in the UK with frantic circulations: tens of thousands of cars a year. But what did they look like? How did you differ from the models available to us? And why aren’t they more sold there? Watch answers to all these questions in the new video!

And here you can read the unknown story of the racing “Lada” from the UK – Samara from Yorkshire. Just imagine: England, right steering wheel, frame, expanded arches in the Lancia style, and all this under the mysterious name Lada Samara 4 × 4.

And here is our story about today’s everyday life of the Togliatti plant: a review of the production of serial production of Lada Spark, dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the first “Lada” on April 19, 1970. /m

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